On 30/09/2007, rigdent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We spend quite a bit of last week trundling about on the southern bit > of the Staffs and Worcs canal = all very nice and secin and very quiet > we passed a couple of boats a day at most. > > THEN we headed north and a soon as we passed Autherly things got > busier and busier until we got on the T&M and traffic reached > saturation point at times. We passed a flotilla of 8 boat nose to > tail at the rugeley aqueduct and no they weren't a boat club outing. > > Were we unlucky or does it often get like that nowdays ? Seems like > half the traffic is either Canal time or Shakespeare boats > > I'm starting to think we may need to move out to the periphery of the > system to get some piece and quiet > We were out for a week in August. Going south on the S&W we saw reasonable traffic, but once we turned onto the Stourbridge Canal the traffic dwindled away. On route up the Delph through Netherton and into Brum centre at Gas Street and then Old Main Line out to W'ton, I don't think we saw more than a dozen moving boats over four days. However, once we were at the bottom of the 21 on the S&W the boats returned and going up the Shroppie to Brewood we met one every 4 or 5 minutes!
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