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Having stocked up with provisions at Endon I carried on down the Caldon canal, stopping briefly to empty the loo and top up the boat’s water tank then going to Denford where the canal splits into two branches. I took the Froghall branch which soon after runs underneath the Leek branch. It gets very dense, there are deep locks, a heritage railway and I bumped into Aussie Boater as well as going past a historic mill.

Cheddleton Flint Mill: www.cheddletonflintmill.com/
Aussie Boater: www.youtube.com/channel/UCjCxO8yp0_VF0zaiQQF3hJw

Start location: https://goo.gl/maps/vDF1GK4uRMAHqTsEA
End location: https://goo.gl/maps/buUCCcRaeq4cRekK7

 

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Vlog 194: Going to the Frogs

Having stocked up with provisions at Endon I carried on down the Caldon canal, stopping briefly to empty the loo and top up the boat's water tank then going to Denford where the canal splits into two branches. I took the Froghall branch which soon after runs underneath the Leek branch.

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Judy Keena

What a delightful stretch of canal. A shame it’s such a navigational challenge.

Dave Park

Can you lower your boat in the water a bit by filling your water and fuel tanks, and stacking a bunch of coal all over the place? 100 imperial gallons of water weighs 456.4 lbs. A boat of 6'11" x 58' has a bottom area of ~400 sq. feet. 12" x 12" x 1" of water weighs 5.2 lbs. The boat will sit 1/4.566" lower in the water. That's about 5.6 mm, in metric ;) To drop your boat 1" would take 2086.4 lbs of extra load inside the hull. If you added ballast to do this permanently, it would take 521 standard frogged bricks.