Boatdate: 18062021

Location: Weston Arm, Montgomery Canal

Heading: Back up to the Llangollen canal in morning

Weather: Cloudy, cooler, a bit of sun in the evening

 Right then, time to go though it would be quite possible to stay here longer quite happily but we are booked for a passage back up Frankton Locks onto the Llangollen canal on Saturday morning. Our friends have stayed aboard overnight and are going to cruise up through the three Aston locks with us before walking the towpath back to their car and heading home.

It doesn't take long to dawdle back down the cut to where we moor for the night opposite nb Jasper. As it turns out, Paul the owner of Jasper knows Pan91 of old from Hanbury Wharf and after much scrunching of brain cells he comes up with the name Barclay Williams as the purported 2nd (?) owner of our boat after Hilary Peters for whom we think Pan91 was built. A bit of googling later I find an address and contact number for Barclay and I will try to contact him at some point to see if he knew the name of the boat builder which, to this day, is still a mystery. 

It's a very quiet and peaceful evening. Cathy goes off to explore more of the rich flora she's spotted as we came through the Graham Palmer Lock and she's put in a massive amount of work in identifying all the species she's found from her extensive collection of books on wild flora and fauna we keep on board. I decide to get the vacuum pump out and get shot of the rainwater that has found its way into the bilge but it doesn't take long. Oh, I also top up the water tank and get rid of the accumulated rubbish on board at the Weston Arm recycling bins and the skip. 

This is the memorial stone at the side of the Graham Palmer Lock. Honestly, he is a dead ringer for a friend of mine called Duncan.