Cruising on the Staffs & Worcs
Just a weekend criuse with friends Jan & Mike. After an awful drive up the M5 with slow moving queues in very heavy rain we arrived just before seven o’clock. If the weather had been better, and we had been on time, we would have cruised to just outside the town for the night. But
Fairly short trip today, only about a mile. We wandered up to the High st in the morning and bought some stuff for a barbecue. The bucher had an array of exotic sausages including ostrich, kangaroo, wildebeest, etc. We bought a selection including kangaroo. We did a few jobs around the boat in the lovely
The plan for the week was to do the ‘Stourport ring’. Daughter Nikki & son in law Paul were due to come with us this week on Symphony and had booked their holidays accordingly. Now that we no longer had to be back by Friday morning we could go more leisurely over eight days instead
Heddi, Nikki and I arrived soon after lunch, unpacked the stuff and then drove to Sainsbury’s to stock up for the week. We didnt go by boat as we had to wait for Paul to join us after he finished work. While we were waiting I did a few odd jobs around the boat and
During the morning I fitted the battery after a visit to B&Q for some bits and pieces. Physically getting the battery in there went easier than I expected, but doing the electrical side was a bit tricky becuase of the limited amount of room to manouver the thick cables. I’d completed it by about 12:00
For some time I have been thinking of adding an extra battery to the domestic bank. JH has only two 135Ah batteries on the domestic side, which is rather less than most boats. We called in at Limekiln Chanlery in Stourport and picked up a new 110Ah battery and a battery box to put it
A lazy morning start, then back to our permanent mooring in Kidderminster, pack up and back home.
Didnt move today. We spent the time doing odd jobs around the boat and wandering around Kinver shops. A pleasant, relaxing day.
In the morning we went on a pleasant walk along part on the trackbed of the old South Staffordshire Railway. We walked back up Bratch locks along the towpath to Mops Farm Bridge, No 54. From here a footpath crosses several fields and emerges by a crossroads. If you go through the picnic site you
After the toing & froing for the pumpout we did a short chug down to just below Bratch locks and moored on the non-towpath side by the picnic area. We stayed here for the rest of the day and part of the the next day. In the afternoon I made a small folding table for