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Posted on: Wednesday August 14, 2019 at: 6:52 pm
…we are still here. It has been a long time since our last post. We have been off the boat since late June, visiting family in the USA. While we were away, Brandy Pad has been moored in Fettlers Wharf Marina, North of Liverpool:
Brandy Pad in Fettlers Wharf.
You can perhaps see the boat better in this photo:
We returned a bit over a week ago, and our friends Rob and Susan have now joined us to set off to Liverpool Docks. On our last visit, we did not have enough time to see as much as we wanted. Rob and Susan wanted to make the trip as they haven’t done it before on their own boat, Copperkins ll. so we decided to decided a return visit was worth it.
Here’s hoping the weather improves a bit!
Going down…..
Posted on: Friday May 17, 2019 at: 6:10 pm
…on the Anderton Lift that is!
On Wednesday we managed to meet up again with our good friends Rob and Susan on their boat Copperkins II. As we were both by the Anderton Lift, we decided to go down on it together. Brandy Pad last went down on the lift a couple of years ago, and I posted some photos then.
The Anderton Lift takes you from the Trent and Mersey Canal onto the River Weaver, by lowering the boat 50 feet in a caisson full of water. Originally built in 1875, a second companion caisson normally comes up as you go down, counterbalancing the load, but on this occasion the second one was out of commission (it had developed a leak), so there was a substantial delay. We eventually made the trip, however, and then moored up together for the night on a nearby pontoon.
On this occasion, I took a video of the trip, so if you ever wondered what things look like from the helm, this is a chance to find out. It takes approximately 45 minutes to complete the trip, so I have removed the waiting times involved, while water levels are balanced, and increased the speed of the video by around 7 times. A green dot in the corner indicates the faster sections, although you will probably be able to tell anyway.
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Why we do this No 6
Posted on: Thursday March 15, 2018 at: 7:27 pm
A 360 degree (almost) from the roof of Brandy Pad today:
We are near Kings Sutton having failed, for the moment, in our attempt to get to Oxford. You can see from this rather shaky video that the fields are flooded. At a point a little further down the canal the River Cherwell joins the canal on the east side and flows out again to the west. The river is in flood which has raised the water level in that stretch of canal. This makes it difficult to get under the bridges and dangerous to cross the powerful flow. So the canal is temporarily closed. Fortunately there was a turning point next to the lock above the flood and we were able to turn around and head back up to Banbury.
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