We are now back where we were Monday last week. We left Sawley at 9:45, along the Trent, back up to the Trent & Mersey canal, through the old canal village of Shardlow, up 3 locks, and moored at Swarkestone at 13:45. This leaves us with a half day's run into Burton to leave the boat at Shobnall boatyard.
During the trip we accompanied and assisted a hireboat (exCanaltime, now hireacanalboat.com) who had started out from Sawley yesterday afternoon, through two of the locks - their first ones. The crew was inexperienced, but the only lock training provided by the hire company was a video. This seems to us rather irresponsible as the locks on this section of the Trent & Mersey are large, and create strong eddies during operation. If you dont know what you are doing you could sink your boat in the lock. I guess most of their hirers dont but even so....
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