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It’s strange to look out of the window and see the geese looking down at you.
There we were nicely positioned for the Wigan Twenty One, just before the first lock at Poolstock, when the pound dropped like a stone.
We were however pleasantly surprised that the pound rose again by 09:40 and we were able to pass through the lock then.
After an arduous 5 hours and twenty minutes we had reached the Wigan Top Lock. So the Wigan 21 actually took us just under 5 hours.
Here we had some more fun. We decided to pick up water and Romy advised the fisherman sitting by the water point that we were going to tie up there and we were sorry but he would have to move. He didn’t and he ignored Pat’s request to move his keep net. The end result was that his keep net became firmly attached to our prop. He lost a keep net. We lost about an hour.
After disentangling ourselves we made cruised on to Haigh Country Park where we moored just opposite the golf course.
Were you in the pound when it dropped like a stone? I’m not looking forward to the return leg and bumping into that fisherman.
Caption competition ‘prop-er job Pat’
Pat really struggled to get into his new wetsuit, even with Romy’s assistance.