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Our 2011 cruising

Our 2011 cruising started iced in at Lancaster on the Lancaster Canal and finished yesterday at Loughborough. We've covered 834 miles and worked 540 locks. For anyone interested this is a summary of Iona's travels in 2011.   We crossed the Ribble Link on the first crossing on 21st April. As we ended up at the head of the convoy Iona was the first boat over the link this year. We then cruised to Sale on the Bridgewater to meet up with my mum and dad on their boat, Monty.   We bimbled aroun
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Sheepishly updating the blog after over a year...

Ho hum - failed miserably this time! I see we left our blog in January last year off to my job interview - oops. Well I got the job - though instead of 3 months they offered me 6 months. On the one hand this was brilliant as it gave us a chance to put some money away, but it meant we were tied to the area until July 2010 when we were hoping to get moving in March. Mustn't grumble though - the money came in very handy.   The end of my contract coincided with the announced closure of the L&
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Wintering on the L&LC

I'm not very good at this blog business am I! I never intended to write every day but did intend to update it a little more regulalry than I have.   Anyway, we made our way down from Skipton to the section between Wigan and Johnsons Hillock before the numerous stoppages on the Leeds & Liverpool would have made it impossible. We're now caught between two stoppages for the time being - not that it matters too much - we're embedded in thick ice so won't be going anywhere for a while anywa
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The water tank saga

Dave & I decided to do a joint blog in my name rather than separately - this is Dave's first contribution (and his first every blog entry) (Dave is davel on the forum)   We picked Iona up on 9th October and spent our first week on the boat taking her from Northwich to Coventry. We noticed the water consumption seemed very high, but put that down to the fact we were doing a lot of cleaning (she'd been standing around at Harrals for the last three months). We also noticed a distinct and rath
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Blog Update

After finally getting round to starting a blog I've been very remiss in updating it. The main reason is actually, for me, the biggest drawback of life aboard, but fortunately not a permanent one. Our batteries are so shot that even when they've been charged all day they don't have enough oomph to power the laptop. This means I have to have the engine running to spend any length of time on the internet. As we have to turn the engine off at 8pm this severely limits the time I can spend on it i
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My first ever blog - I mean first ever!

OK - I've steered clear of this for long enough - afraid of an unknown medium probably. Hey ho here goes - my first ever ever blog (and maybe no one will ever read it - I feel slightly presumptious to think that anyone will - but then it'll be a diary entry for me to look back on - not so bad)   We've been living aboard full time since 21st June and everyone wants to know how it's going. It's always too complex to answer. It's difficult to explain the complexities of life aboard a less than
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