We had to leave the wonderful hospitality of MWYC at 0900 in the morning. This was the arranged time even though it was raining we had to leave. We said a gratefuk goodbye and The Best Mate took ...
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26 JUNE 2024 REFUELING We had returned to the Quay to refuel Sonflower. I had 240 litres of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) delivered to the Quays and ALex heloed me to put 160litres into th...
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Saturday 22 June 2024 Yesterday we visited the Black Country Living Museum an finished the long day with dinber at Mad o'Rourkes pie factory. It was a very noisy venue. As we had no boatin...
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We started the day with a tour of Canal and River Trust's Bradley Workshop. Here they have the capacity to produce 150 leaves of lock gates a yesr. CRT do have another lock gate building workshop...
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A shorter cruise today. Horsley Fields junction, turn east on the Main Line and left again at Deepfields Junction onto the Bradley Arm. We were following Robbie Cummings footsteps (series ...
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When we got up we discovered we were well hemmed in. Nb Horned Lark with its Dutch crew has come alongside Stella by Starlighr whose mooring lines were across our bows. We all extricated ourselv...
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We were almost at the back of the pack with only Stella by Starlight with their crew of four and two dogs behind us BCNS provided help. Peter Fisher cycled from Bradley to be there and got the ...
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When we set off at 0817 the sky had greyed over and the UK was under a yellow weather warning for rain. We had a target. 7 hours cruising on the winding Wyrley and Essington canal to The Fingerp...
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We left our mooring at about 7.15 and took on water in Brownhills. The services here are excellent. The itinery did not include the Anglesey Arm but as we had time we took the diversion up to ...
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14 June 2024 Crew: Eeyore, Best Mate and Suepercrew We rejoined the boat this morning having stopped at Aldi for provisions and navigated to Wolverhampton. Totally uneventful except for very sh...
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SUNDAY 2 JUNE 2024 We returned to the boat by car, bus, train and taxi. By parking the car at our intended destination we expect to save time at the end of this little cruise. We are going to se...
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Sunday 26 May 2024 We arrrived back at the boat on Sunday evening after contemporary worship with our son at the local parish church. We were settling in for the evening when nb Castlecroft...
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We pulled off our overnight mooeing at about 7.00 and were turning onto the Warwick and Birmingham secrion of the Grand Union Canal by 8 am. This was not without slapping the side and thumping th...
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We left Cropredy about 7.15 and had a good road through to the too level. There were a few boats moving: 2 up and 1 down recorded in chalk by the Claydon vlockie. Then we joined a queue at a fa...
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The best laid plans need to be variable. We are going back to Birminham to join the Jume Birmongham Canal Navigations Society Explorer Cruise. We have planned out getting to Wolverhampton in sm...
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The Inland Waterways Association National Rally, aka the Festival of Water, was at Pelsall Junction this year. Although we decided late to book in we were happy to include this festival in our it...
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SUNDAY 13TH AUGUST 2023 It rained! We left our overnight mooring at about 10.00 am amd entered Birmingham, City Centre, mooring at the services just befiore the Mailbox to await the rest ...
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After the climb up Hatton Flight Sonflower rested for a week at the very hospitable Mid Warwickshire Yacht Club. Our friends on nb Faithfull were out cruising and their mooring was available. We ...
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Tuesday 18th July 2023, Wednesday 19th July 2023 We returned to the boat to find that the water pump had been left on and the water tank was empty. An inspection of the bilge showed that this...
Tuesday 27 June 2023 With new crew of a friend from way back we left the safe haven of Wigram's Turn Waterside and Marina. We thanked Aquavista for their hospitality and hoped that their ebgi...
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Monday 12th June 2023. We headed off northward and found that Hardwick Lock No28’s new paddles had been greased! The local CRT manager had promised his lads would do this offering " no excu...
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Hopefully our troubles are behind us! We have actually been on a trip. Only to Cropredy and back but we wanted to give the boat a bit of a shakedown cruise to ensure that we are fit to go lon...
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The Boaters Christian Fellowship have a weekend togetehr at Fazeley each Autumn. We had a good time there but it left SONFLOWER on the visitor meeoings at Peels Wharf for a night on her own. I...
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It is a long time since I blogged. However that is not because life has not been exciting. Sonflower was one of many boats at the IWA Festival if Water in Worcester over the August Bank Hol...
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Monday 30 August 2021 We left the IWA Festival of Water at 1630 to meet our allocated spot at Bilford Top Lock at 1700. Locking down these and Gregory’s Mill locks proved no problem and we ...
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