Diesel in Northampton

[Grace and Favour]

[alan_fincher]

It's only five miles to Gayton junction from Northampton, You be spending most of the time in time in locks (17). As for fuel, I only use 6" between Gayton Junction and Peterborough on average. So 5" is more then enough.

 

Except.......

 

One of our boats has a tank where the take off point is (in round numbers) about 4" from the bottom of the tank.

 

I have absolutely no idea if it is just drawn off at that point through a straight hole, or whether there is actually some kind of downward facing pipe inside the tank that reaches to nearer the bottom.

 

I have never been prepared to find out by trying to run on air.

 

So if you told me "5 inches is enough" my reply would be that I perhaps have an absolute maximum of an inch of usable fuel, even though the tank dips as being 5" of fuel in it overall.

[Alway Swilby]

Well, we bought 5 litres in Morrisons as suggested just for piece of mind. Then bought 134 litres at Gayton. The boat manual suggests that we have a 180 litre tank so in theory we had plenty left.

The arm was very pretty but a shame about the road noise. There were quite a few floating weeds lower down the arm and a couple of ver low pounds. We were helped up the flight by a chap called Neil. Thanks Neil.

Edited April 7, 2014 by Alway Swilby

[alan_fincher]

We were helped up the flight by a chap called Neil. Thanks Neil.

Any chance this was "Hairy Neil" formerly of this forum?

 

I know there are lots of Neils, but that one does have a habit of popping up near lock flights.

 

Here he is a year or two back.....