End of the Huddersfield.

Byram Arcade Huddersfield

Locomotion Bridge

Well we really have come a long way since the last post, as currently we are in Plymouth for a week or so.  We finally made it to Huddersfield on Thursday which is the end of the Huddersfield Narrow canal and the start of the Huddersfield Broad Canal!  We spent a couple of nights in Huddersfield before working the Locomotion lift bridge and moving on, on Sunday.  We paired up with a boat called, by coincidence, Peregrine.  As it was a broad canal we though we would be able to share the locks.  Well yes they are wide locks but they are short, only suitable for a 57.6ft boat.  We discovered that whilst 2 57ft boats will fit in the lock, you can’t then open the gates when you get to the bottom.  The first lock we did manage, but the second we had to refill and take one boat out and proceed singly.  However after 9 locks we were on the Calder and Hebble, part canal and part river.  These locks seemed a bit bigger so we paired up again.  Cruising to Brighouse with Peregrine and spending 2 nights there.  During the course of this time we have become good friends with Rene and John who are on Peregrine.  It was with some regret that we left them on Tuesday with us heading towards Sowerby Bridge and them turning heading back they way we had come.  So Falcon is safely moored at Shire Cruisers and we are in Plymouth for the next week or so.  Will catch up with as many of you as we can, or back on here in August.

One of the locks we could share with Peregrine

Yes there really is a place called Fall Ing,
But we are going the other way
as we don't want to fall in'