We done a 5 hour cruise today taking us through Lancaster where we saw the couple that towed us up the locks when we broke down.

I had a request today to put a copy of a map showing where we are cruising.

Yesterday Dianne and Peter arrived just mooring up before the heavens opened up, so last night we had a meal and few drinks in Pipers, hopefully we will get a better picture later.

Yesterday we cruised to Garstang and tody we said our goodbyes to Craig and await Peter and Dianne to join us tomorrow on a Hire Boat, Garstang is hosting a scarecrow festival this weekend.

Normally when Craig is aboard we have a picture of Lager being drunk.

Today we have moored outside Guys Thatched Hamlet which has a Tavern so sneaked in and had a quick half.

Yesterday we stayed moored up to allow Craig to visit the visit the Manchester United Stadium.

After a new cable was fitted  we cruised on in a little more open country than it was yesterday and tonight we had Pizza night in the Hand and Dagger pub.

Well we made it and are awaiting an engineer tomorrow morning.

Of course this meant we had to be towed through the locks and the last three had to be entered in reverse.

We made it to the link and had to wait until levels dropped to get under a bridge after that is when things went wrong, the cable snapped to the gearbox and was stuck in reverse this meant the boat shot back the tillar hit the bank and the tillar arm knocked me off the boat.

As we crossed the link things went well overheating only the once but the dogs were not impressed.

Today started so well as last night there was no chance of us travelling the link but this morning we got the news that we would be going as the wind had dropped.

We had a lonley cruise today only seeing some walkers on our trip, we reached Tarleton only to find the boats that should have crossed today still there because of the high winds, it dosn't look good for us tomorrow.

There was a very bright moon over the mooring last night

We entered new waters for all of us today as entered on to the L&L Rufford Branch and suffered Rain,Wind and Weeds getting ready for Monday to enter the Lancaster Canal.