Narrowboat owners have been disrupted, and some stranded, by low water levels after parts of the West Midlands canal network were shut due to extended dry weather.
The closure of the lock flight at Minworth means the Curdworth section of the Birmingham and Fazeley canal is impassable.
Lock flights are also closed at Wolverhampton, Rushall in Walsall, Cheddleton in Staffordshire and Coventry, which the Canal & River Trust said would continue until prolonged rainfall replenished supplies.
One owner, Tom Chadwin, said he had not been prevented from doing anything he needed to, but “it has slowed us down quite a lot”.