Day dawned bright but very cold. Stephen got up early and made a start at about 6.50am. Gwyneth stayed in bed (no locks to do - yet) but, after about half an hour the prop got thoroughly fouled with heavy-duty plastic bags, so Gwyneth got herself out of bed and made refreshing cups of tea!
There was quite a lot of ice about but, once the prop had been cleared, we made good progress and arrived at the top of Tardebigge locks at 11.50am.
We decided that we would rather do the flight during the afternoon than start first thing in the morning. As it turned out we did really well - we had an early lunch and started into the top lock at 12.30pm, finishing the 30 locks at 4.45pm. We had to fill all but 2 of them and, for most of the flight, we were the second of three boats going down. We met nothing coming up so, by helping each other (closing bottom gates for the boat in front) we worked out a good routine.
It was actually a very good day for doing locks - dry, sunny and cold - working 30 locks soon warms you up!
After tea we went for a walk around Stoke Prior, and Stephen managed to bag a geocache on the way - all very pleasant.
The travels of nb Chyandour.
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