Slow Motion

 Friday 17^th July 2020

After getting Eileen home last week, we decided we wanted to have a break, a long weekend. We weren’t going to be able to go very far in that time, so we decided to take the contrary approach and go not very far, slowly.

Loulie dropped me at the marina in the morning, and I brought Eileen up to Keckwick for loading. After lunch we put the dogs on board and set off through Moore and Stockton Heath. Around Walton we were caught up by two plastic cruisers, moving much faster than us, as they do, and I let them past. One had a family on board and the second a man on his own, but they seemed to be travelling together.

Soon after we went round a bend and saw the second cruiser drifting oddly at an angle to the bank; the guy seemed to be holding a towel on his head. As we approached slowly we could see the other boat starting to come back, and we could also see that the towel was to mop up a lot of blood on his head. We offered to help but he said his friends were coming back and that he would be fine. Apparently he had hit his head hard on the top of the doorway down into the cabin. A good deal later they both came past us again, so he was clearly OK.

As I said we intended this to be a slow leisurely cruise, so we didn’t try to push on too far for the night. About 18:00 we moored up between Grappenhall and Thelwall, with fields all around us, very nice. There were a few dog walkers coming past, but not too many, and it was a very relaxing spot.

Such a great picture, I had to put it in again

TODAY: 4:30 HOURS. 7.7 MILES. 0 LOCKS.

Voyage: 4:30 HOURS. 7.7 MILES. 0 LOCKS.