点评:Four of us had a week on the Cheshire canals from Anderton Marina, via an RCI timeshare exchange. After a friendly welcome from the marina staff and completing handover paperwork we were shown to our allocated boat - CLC’s 6-berth Spirit of Debdale. We had the obligatory tuition before setting off along the Trent & Mersey canal, then the Middlewich branch of the Shropshire Union and the main Shropshire Union to Christleton near Chester, where we turned around to retrace our journey back to base.
Unfortunately on the return leg the boat developed a mechanical fault that resulted in an almost complete loss of power. We called the marina who arranged for an engineer to meet us at the next accessible bridge and we managed to keep going (albeit very slowly) to the rendezvous point. The fault was duly dealt with and we were on our way again.
We cruised some lovely rural stretches, saw lots of bird life and enjoyed walking our dog along the towpath.
We were a little disappointed we weren’t allocated one of CLC’s newer boats - although ours was clean and well equipped, being 25 years old it was showing its age a little.
A final word of advice – there were four adults and a small dog on a 6-berth boat and I would say that is the limit as regards space on board.
翻译:我们四个人通过 RCI 分时度假交换在安德顿码头的柴郡运河上度过了一个星期。在受到码头工作人员的友好欢迎并完成移交文书工作后,我们被带到了分配给我们的船——CLC 的 6 泊位 Spirit of Debdale。在沿着特伦特和默西运河、什罗普郡联盟的米德尔威奇分部和什罗普郡联盟的主干道出发之前,我们先交了强制性学费,然后到达切斯特附近的克里斯特尔顿,在那里我们掉头原路返回基地。
不幸的是,在回程中,船出现了机械故障,导致几乎完全失去动力。我们打电话给码头,码头安排了一名工程师在下一座可到达的桥上与我们会面,我们设法继续(尽管非常缓慢)前往会合点。故障得到妥善处理,我们又上路了。
我们巡游了一些美丽的乡村地带,看到了许多鸟类,并喜欢沿着纤道遛狗。
我们有点失望,我们没有分配到 CLC 的新船之一 - 尽管我们的船很干净且设备齐全,但已经 25 年了,它有点显示出它的年龄。
最后一点建议——有 6 个泊位的船上有四个成年人和一只小狗,我想说这是船上空间的限制。