Atherstone Flight

Not one of our best journeys!  We climbed the flight in the pouring rain, all the way up the 11 locks behind two single handers. One of these, the one at the front, was very, very slow , nothing wrong with that but in the rain it just gets wearing!  The other chap was poetry in motion the way he stepped off his moving boat whilst entering locks and the way he moved about the lock and stepped back onto his boat as he left each lock. Jenny felt positively slow and plodding in comparison.

However, at one lock the board on the top gate, used for crossing the gate, was missing, which could have caused a bit of a problem for Jenny , her legs are too little to step across the bottom gates when opening them, but Super Sid came to the rescue by stepping from Hunters Moon whilst she was moving into the lock, so he could close one of the lower gates. That too was poetry in motion but we should not be surprised because he has been known to be nimble on his feet in the past!

The flight, which normally takes a couple of hours, took us 4 hours! The final three locks wee manned by volunteers. They were a very welcome sight!

Stopped for lunch, fed up and wet and cold. Flaming June!! Not here!

Decided to call it a day, find a pub and get back in touch with the world!

Rain across Atherstone flight.