FIRST VOYAGE - FROM STONE TO TEWKESBURY 20180222_183844

On the Trent and Mersey Canal

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April 11th 2019
This is a photoblog of our first voyage in Horatio Sprague from Stone on the Trent and Mersey Canal in Staffordshire to Tewkesbury on the River Avon in Gloucestershire. The boat was launched on February 21 2018 in Stone by the builder Steve Heywood as an empty steel shell with an engine. Being empty and unballasted, it was far less manoeuvrable than a completed boat, so the trip was quite "hairy". ... read more

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