C&RT emailed notice
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Notice Alert-Coventry CanalLocation: Lock 10 Atherstone
Starts At: Access Point - MCB Leicester Causeway
Saturday 4 July 2020 11:00 until further notice
Type: Navigation ClosureReason: Structure failure
Original message:
The top-end lock gate collar and bracket has broken and unsafe to operate. Due to health and safety reasons, the lock will remain closed until the gate collar is fixed. The top-end gate will be chained and padlocked and will not be operable.
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We were held up a couple of days at the Atherstone Flight because of damage done by a boat ramming the gate(according to C&RT engineers in attendance).
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| After getting the gate back in position a sheared stud in the collar bracket had to be fixed. |
We stayed another day after the gate was fixed to let the traffic disperse, the next morning we were away early and taking on water at Bradley Green services by 6:30. The Atherstone flight of 11 were a breeze with only the middle lock set against us, other early risers coming down the flight assisted our progress too.
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| Bradley Green Bridge. |
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| Top Lock |
Sue is a serial scrumper in lock gardens, plundering some rosemary, thyme, sage and oregano.
We were moored up near Springwood Haven at 10:30.
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