The Anorak Cruise: Day 3 (Easter Monday)

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Day 3: Castlefield Basins, Rochdale Canal (Castlefield, Manchester) to Marple Junction, Macclesfield Canal (Marple Yard, Marple).

Total Distance: 15.62 Miles, with 43 locks en route.

Journey Time: 17h:02m - Approximately 2.1 days of cruising, including lock operating time (assuming 8 hours of travel per day).

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Mucky Madchester.
Rose nice and early - 6am
Ste and me on the boat, everyone else running the locks, Phil prepping them ahead whilst schoey and mark get us through. ended up with 8 people running the locks as we met up with another nb.
Lost track of the amount of rubbish in the canal which result in marine engineer ~Blackamn getting his hands dirty and cleening the prop.

Decided to call it a day at the bottom of marple locks then woke up at the top?? seems the rest of the crew got bored and carried on. Ste having 3 beers for every lock.

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