Boatdate: 04092019
Canal:  Peak Forest & Ashton canals
Location: Fairfield Junction
Heading: Into central Manchester
Weather: Sun and showers
Distance Remaining: 70 miles

Spent a couple of nights in Romily resting up and tinkering with the boat and then on through the Hyde Bank tunnel to Woodley where the plan was to get the train home the following morning to sort out the roofer coming to do some work on our house. That all go thrown into touch when I got a text from him saying he couldn't do the work till early October. Still and all, on consideration that may not be a bad thing as if makes it possible now to make the final crossing of the Ribble Link before it shuts down for the season at the end of September. It would certainly be more convenient to us to have Pan on the Lancaster canal for the winter months rather than somewhere on the Leeds Liverpool necessitating fortnightly trips to move it. Hey ho, we will press on then up passed Hyde to Portland basin. I would have moored there but choc-a-bloc with boats so not much choice but to turn left onto the Ashton canal. I'm reluctant to take on the next 18 locks that will take me into the heart of Manchester so I moor up for the night at Fairfield Junction just outside the marina entrance.