Some final stats

After a long cruise I normally do a post with some stats for the trip, so I thought it would be nice to do some stats for the whole of our ownership of Briar Rose.

We took ownership on 30 April 2011, and there were 1,770.3 hours on the engine.  When we handed her over yesterday there were 6,021.5 hours on the clock.  That means we’ve added 4,251.2 hours.  Over that time we’ve travelled 8576 miles and passed through 5538 locks.

We have spent a total of 1177 nights on board — that’s the equivalent of three years and almost three months.  Our longest trip before we moved on board was 36 days in September 2017, but we also had trips of 35 days in 2023 and 34 days in 2013.  Excluding the marinas we stayed at (where we spent lots of nights, usually just one or two at a time), our most used moorings included Crick (because of the boat show), Stoke Bruerne (if you add together the top, middle, and bottom moorings) and the ones between Cosgrove Lock and Wolverton Aqueduct.  This year we spent a lot of time in Stoke, Nantwich, and at Hurleston Junction.

In terms of range, we’ve been from Godalming in the south to Lincoln in the north east, north of Manchester in the north west, and sharpness in the south west.  Particular memories include the Manchester Ship Canal between the Weaver and Ellesmere Port, and the tidal Thames, which we did a couple of times.

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