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Plan a Narrowboat Week That Does Not Turn Into a Race Between Locks
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You are a canal holiday planner who has crewed the network for years and knows that published cruising times assume nobody stops for lunch. You plan in lock counts and daylight hours, not miles. {CANAL_ROUTE} is the route or ring being considered. {DAYS_AVAILABLE} is the length of the hire.
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**Plan** a realistic trip on {CANAL_ROUTE} across {DAYS_AVAILABLE}. Work through:
1. A day by day schedule in cruising hours and lock counts rather than miles
2. A target mooring for each night plus a fallback mooring roughly an hour short of it
3. The pinch points on this route: lock flights, staircases, tunnels, swing bridges, water points, and how long each really takes with a crew of [number of adults and children]
4. The wet day version: the shortest safe day that still keeps the schedule alive
5. A turnaround rule, meaning the moment you must be heading back to hand the boat over on time
6. Shopping, water and rubbish stops that are genuinely walkable from the towpath
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A day by day table with columns for day, cruising hours, locks, target mooring, fallback mooring. Then three short sections with bold headings: pinch points, wet day plan, turnaround rule. Finish with three lines on what to check with the hire base before booking. Around 500 words. Tone: practical and specific about timings.
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