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Dear all, Well got the boat from Nantwich to Kidderminster with a young but willing crew despite the gale and a canal like pea soup due to the leaves and other debris...a real learning experience, then today, my first true time as a solo through locks etc. and despite weather forecast set fair!!... yep it peed it down, engine power loss issues and by the time I got to Stourport ( about 3.40pm after late start) I was drenched, and then the rain REALLY started!...shower, dry clothes and a beer in a local pub & all is good with the world.... ...EXCEPT!.....after all this rain should I be checking the flow rates etc. for Stourport to Worcester tomorrow?.....and if I do need to check, where and whAt am I looking for? I used to use the Thames loads and you just knew the river but the Severn is fed by a lot more higher ground and I learnt to respect nature at a young age....any advice greatly appreciated.
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Hello Everyone, I have had to resort to a post about this as tonight I feel defeated !! after 2 months of battling with a leak in my engine room, I really thought I had it sussed ! - I have had various things to the calorifier done, including expansion tank fitted and all the joints re done, (plumer was doing some other work did this) - I have reseated the calorifier skin fitting with CT1 as I noticed this wasnt very good, - I then found a small hole near another pipe exit, where a spot of weld was missing and filled this with CT1 , really thought this was it. And yet still I find water, and a fair amount !! Alot of people say check the prop but I really dont think its this and I regularly twist the knob, but I am going to attempt to completely repack this at the weekend. For now I have put a bowl under it., I have taken some photos and even a video to try and show the issue and am desperate for some advice, I had the boat surveyed recently and he said everything was in very good conditon so am dubious to think its the hull itself leaking but starting to feel that way. I did run the eberspecher this morning for hot water and it rained lots today. I have a cratch cover and cannot figure it out ! I wondered if it was coming in through the vents but they dont seem wet ? Any help greatly apreciate, it may stop me going totaly mad. Thanks Martin http://www.martin-price.org/downloads/Engine%20Leaks/20160712_202756.jpg http://www.martin-price.org/downloads/Engine%20Leaks/20160712_202802.jpg http://www.martin-price.org/downloads/Engine%20Leaks/20160712_203654.jpg http://www.martin-price.org/downloads/Engine%20Leaks/20160712_203703.jpg http://www.martin-price.org/downloads/Engine%20Leaks/IMG_4504.JPG http://www.martin-price.org/downloads/Engine%20Leaks/IMG_4505.JPG http://www.martin-price.org/downloads/Engine%20Leaks/IMG_4506.JPG http://www.martin-price.org/downloads/Engine%20Leaks/IMG_4508.JPG http://www.martin-price.org/downloads/Engine%20Leaks/IMG_4509.JPG http://www.martin-price.org/downloads/Engine%20Leaks/IMG_4510.JPG Ps. sorry some of the photos are terrible, just home from work and tried to take the best I could on my phone with a torch, The video is a little better I hope
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A few weeks ago I got a PM from Emerald Fox inviting me to come along as crew for a week or so over Christmas up north. Much of my boating so far has been around Braunston, but he meant way up north, going up the Pennines on the Rochdale, subject to the canal not being iced over, always a possibility. Always being open to the opportunity to crew for someone I said yes, and that is why I now find myself about to sit down to Christmas dinner with Foxy. Duck, stuffing, roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips, and Brussels sprouts of course. And cranberry sauce, and Foxy says a very acceptable Reisling. Foxy’s cookery is good, we had some nice Mexican pancakes yesterday, but he has just partly burnt the Brussels and is doing his best to rescue them. It’s nice and warm inside the boat with the stove going, but outside is a different story. To a southerner like me who’s never been to the Pennines before (and only up north at all on a few occasions), the Pennines in winter conjures up a picture of a lone shepherd (wearing the obligatory flat cap) searching a 3 foot snowdrift for lost sheep on a TV news item about bad weather. In fact I haven’t seen any snow but it is cool, sometimes rather windy, and it rains a lot. Ee, it’s grim up north. There has been some clear weather but unfortunately most of it was on Wednesday when Foxy had to be away for the day. That was also the day when we had to get through the Tuel Lane lock because CRT have to operate that, and opening times are limited. So Foxy, being a very nice trusting type, agreed that I could single hand his boat through the set of three locks although I had very little experience of single handed boating. Though I say so myself, I think I did it pretty well and managed not to crash into anything. The combination of the rain and Foxy’s packed social calendar means we’ve been moving rather slowly by my standards so far, but there does appear to be a chance that it could stop raining for a while on Sunday. Maybe.
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