Leaving Shardlow

we set off this morning about 11am to a miserable day, then it brightened up so thought it wasn't gonna be such a bad day at all, then it changed again and it was cold,when we left shardlow lock there was a hire boat already going up on its own, so when we got to aston lock we decided to let it continue on its own seeing as we were traveling with islonian, if one of us had gone in the lock with it the other would be going up alone and its so much easier if you travel together, then we came though weston lock and through the next bridge where the side is shallow and you have to keep to the right because of the shelf (it is signed both ends) only to find a fat boat stuck on the shelf, the hire boat was moored on the shelf so we thought it was staying there, so when the fat boat had moved off we passed the hire boat only for him to push off the side and hit us, apparently it had pulled in to help the fat boat get off the shelf,we didn't know this till we were passing it and were talking to them, so that left the fat boat in front, us behind that then the hire boat behind us and islonian last, seeing as we would have to let the fat boat and the hire boat go thru swarkestone lock we decided to moor up and let islonian go through the lock with the hire boat, sheila and jim have to get to stone for the traders market on friday, so we said our goodbyes and waved them off, we shall be seeing them again in about 7 weeks when we meet up at the middlewich FAB, till then keep safe xxx