Anyone going to Liverpool in 2019?

off topic I know, but I just entered the details - starting at our Cruise 1 through to no 8 this year into canal planner and just in the first 8 trips, we'll clock up:

This is a trip of 445 miles, ½ furlongs and 272 locks from Castlefield Junction to Skipton Visitor Moorings.

This will take 217 hours and 38 minutes which is 31 days, 38 minutes at 7 hours per day.

From Castlefield Junction travel southwest on the Bridgewater Canal (Main Line) for 23 miles, 2½ furlongs to Preston Brook - Waters Meeting, then travel south on the Bridgewater Canal (Preston Brook Branch) for 6½ furlongs to Preston Brook, then travel southeast on the Trent and Mersey Canal (Main Line - Middlewich to Preston Brook) for 16 miles, 7¼ furlongs and 5 locks to Middlewich Junction, then travel southeast on the Trent and Mersey Canal (Main Line - Harding's Wood to Middlewich) for 12 miles, 6½ furlongs and 31 locks to Hardings Wood Junction, then travel north on the Trent and Mersey Canal (Hall Green Branch) for 1 mile, 4 furlongs and 1 lock to Hall Green Stop Lock, then travel north on the Macclesfield Canal for 26 miles, ¾ furlongs and 12 locks to Marple Junction, then travel southeast on the Peak Forest Canal (Upper) for 6 miles, 6 furlongs to Bugsworth Upper Basin, then travel northwest on the Peak Forest Canal (Upper) for 6 miles, 6 furlongs to Marple Junction, then travel south on the Macclesfield Canal for 26 miles, ¾ furlongs and 13 locks to Hall Green Stop Lock, then travel south on the Trent and Mersey Canal (Hall Green Branch) for 1 mile, 4 furlongs to Hardings Wood Junction, then travel southeast on the Trent and Mersey Canal (Main Line - Etruria to Hardings Wood) for 5 miles, 4¾ furlongs to Etruria Junction, then travel southeast on the Trent and Mersey Canal (Main Line - Great Haywood to Etruria) for 19 miles and 18 locks to Great Haywood Junction, then travel southwest on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (Main Line: Autherley to Great Haywood) for 20 miles, 4 furlongs and 12 locks to Autherley Junction, then travel south on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (Main Line: Aldersley to Autherley) for 4 furlongs to Aldersley Junction, then travel southeast on the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Main Line) for 6 miles, 1¾ furlongs and 21 locks to Coseley Tunnel (South end), then travel northwest on the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Main Line) for 6 miles, 1¾ furlongs and 21 locks to Aldersley Junction, then travel north on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (Main Line: Aldersley to Autherley) for 4 furlongs to Autherley Junction, then travel northwest on the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) for 38 miles, 7¼ furlongs and 29 locks to Nantwich Basin Entrance, then travel northwest on the Shropshire Union Canal (Chester Canal - Nantwich to Bunbury) for 1 mile, 7¼ furlongs to Hurleston Junction, then travel west on the Shropshire Union Canal (Llangollen Canal - Main Line) for 44 miles, 3½ furlongs and 21 locks to Llangollen Basin, then travel east on the Shropshire Union Canal (Llangollen Canal - Main Line) for 44 miles, 3½ furlongs and 21 locks to Hurleston Junction, then travel southeast on the Shropshire Union Canal (Chester Canal - Nantwich to Bunbury) for 1 mile, 7 furlongs to Nantwich Leisure Area Visitor Moorings, then travel northwest on the Shropshire Union Canal (Chester Canal - Nantwich to Bunbury) for 3 miles, 1¼ furlongs to Barbridge Junction, then travel northeast on the Shropshire Union Canal (Middlewich Branch) for 10 miles and 4 locks to Wardle Lock No 4, then travel east on the Trent and Mersey Canal (Wardle Lock Branch) for 1 furlong to Middlewich Junction, then travel northwest on the Trent and Mersey Canal (Main Line - Middlewich to Preston Brook) for 16 miles, 7¼ furlongs and 5 locks to Preston Brook, then travel north on the Bridgewater Canal (Preston Brook Branch) for 6½ furlongs to Preston Brook - Waters Meeting, then travel northeast on the Bridgewater Canal (Main Line) for 20 miles, 4¾ furlongs to Stretford - Waters Meeting, then travel west on the Bridgewater Canal (Stretford and Leigh Branch) for 10 miles, 6¼ furlongs to Leigh Bridge No 11, then travel northwest on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Leigh Branch) for 7 miles, 2½ furlongs and 2 locks to Wigan Junction, then travel northeast on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Main Line - Wigan to Leeds) for 62 miles, 6½ furlongs and 56 locks to Skipton Visitor Moorings.



perhaps I won't dare DO any more adding up... gonna be doing a lot of oil changes this year lol