Wigan Flight, 01 June 2026

The Leeds-Liverpool Canal in general and the Wigan Flight in particular are always interesting when boats are coming or going, especially through the locks.

It is a long day through the Wigan Flight, taking six or seven hours from one end to the other. Sometimes there is help with the locks, and today there was, but only for one or two locks at the top. Lashing boats together means there can be more people on the two paths working the lock gates.