It does rain sometimes

24 July - Blisworth Mill to Yardley Wharf.

Up at 6 30 and finished yesterdays blog and published it. Outside it was raining but only lightly.
Breakfast and on our way by 8 30, a short run to the start of the Blisworth tunnel, at 3056 yards long the 3rd longest in the system and supposedly haunted.  http://www.blisworth.org.uk/images/Blistunnel.htm
An easy run thru, no other boats no bats, rats, cats or most importantly Ghosts, took 45 minutes start to end.

 Blisworth Tunnel built 1793 but was not opened until 1805. 

It was also closed in the 1980s for a few years to be repaired.

Hard to get a photo in a tunnel without flashes

We stopped at the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum and had a look at that. well worth it.

Don't we look little beside Sculptor

The rain got harder outside, and then we started the 7 locks that drop the canal 17 meters down to the next level. No boats going our way so we did it solo and the locks were all against us [ means they were empty so we had to fill to get in then empty to get out ] takes at least twice as long. The last two had up traffic and went better and we stopped for lunch, hot soup, loaded water, and dumped rubbish all still in the rain.

 Stoke Bruene Top Lock in the Rain

Below Stoke Bruene Bottom Lock - the rest was a blurr in the rain

We carried on and moored at 3pm just past Yardley Wharf , hot showers, wet gear in the engine room to dry, boots on top of the engine.
I'm writing this at 7.30pm and its still raining, an early night on the cards.

TOTAL - 6 miles, 7 locks, 1 tunnell (Blisworth-3056) - 1 load wash and waterfill