Some cruise stats

According to CanalPlan ... on our Big Summer Cruise we covered 555* miles and worked through 431 locks. We gave ourselves ten weeks to do it, but were back at the marina after nine weeks.

one highlight: the Rochdale Canal. We are just leaving the summit level; the feeder comes in where the dinghy is tied up

The waterways navigated were:

• Grand Union
• Saltisford Arm
• Stratford Canal
• Worcester and Birmingham
• Birmingham Canal (New Main Line)
• Staffs and Worcs
• Trent and Mersey
• Macclesfield Canal
• Peak Forest
• Ashton Canal
• Rochdale Canal
• Calder and Hebble
• Aire and Calder
• New Junction
• South Yorks Navigations
• Sheffield and Tinsley
• Stainforth and Keadby
• River Trent
• Nottingham Canal
• Coventry Canal
• Oxford Canal

I have filmed much of the journey on a timelapse camera; I shall endeavour to upload the many separate sequences soon.

*we actually covered slightly more miles than this - I haven't allowed for the to-ing and fro-ing on the Peak Forest in our quest for water and a winding hole which wasn't silted up. Nor have I added in the mile or three going to the head of navigation on the Trent. And there may well be other bits and pieces I have forgotten about (until I watch the timelapse back). 560 miles would be nearer the mark. Just remembered: we went to the end of the Halifax Arm, oh, and the Dewsbury Arm.