On the Ashby Canal

 

Densie leaving Hawkesworth to turn right on the Coventry Canal

Looking back to the start of the Ashby Canal

Typical Ashby Canal scenery

Moored near Hinckley

A perfect day for cruising with a cloudless blue sky and hot sun, but with a gentle cooling breeze.

We left our moring at 8:50 to avoid the hottest part of the day.  After passing through Hawkesbury Basin we turned right onto the Coventry Cnal (left for Coventry city centre).  Almost immediately we stopped to fill up with water at a rather slow tap. The set we off on the 2.5 mile journey through the outskirts of Coventry to Marston Junction where the Ashby Canal branches off to the right.

The Ashby Canal does not join any other canal and so we will be travelling the 30 miles to the end of navigation, then turning round and retracing our steps. It is quite dfferent to the previous 2 canals being shallow with delightful wooded scenery. Our speed is limited by the depth of water to 2.5mph compared with the 3.0mph we could easily reach previously. 

We moored for the day a mile before  Hinckley, the only major town on the canal, at lunchtime just as the breeze was dying and the temperature rising.

3 hours 40 minutes, 7.37 miles