{"id":165,"date":"2009-09-30T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-09-30T18:56:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T18:56:22","slug":"the-trent-and-mersey-day-4-trent-lock-to-stenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"The Trent and Mersey &#8211; Day 4 &#8211; Trent Lock to Stenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">We have made some progress at last! Covering about 20 miles today, we are now just outside Stenson. We were going to stop at Shardlow for a while this morning, as it is a lovely village, but there were few moorings available and the ones there were\u00a0were a bit tight so we decided to give it a miss and carried on. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">After the luxury of an electric lock at Sawley things got harder and harder as we went on. I will have muscles like popeye soon! The locks are quite large (10ft plus drop), the paddles are stiff and the gates heavy. Weston lock is particularly violent on the fill and I nearly flooded the boat when I opened the ground paddle too far and Ken couldn&#8217;t keep the boat at the back of the lock! I won&#8217;t be doing that again, will I!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Stenson Lock is the\u00a0first one we&#8217;ll do tomorrow (I just couldn&#8217;t manage\u00a0any more today!)\u00a0and thankfully the last &#8216;biggie&#8217;, 12ft 4in drop. After this the canal narrows and the locks are singles, thank God!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Ken has been fishing most evenings, this evening being very productive. Be sure to check out the photo of his\u00a0HUGE catch, unmissable!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Burton on Trent beckons tomorrow. How we will be tortured by all the brewery smells!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Cheers B.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have made some progress at last! Covering about 20 miles today, we are now just outside Stenson. We were going to stop at Shardlow for a while this morning,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=165'>Read the Post<span class='screen-reader-text'>The Trent and Mersey &#8211; Day 4 &#8211; Trent Lock to Stenson<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}