It must be summer!

[WotEver]

 

Edited March 26, 2018 by WotEver

[Nightwatch]

Well spotted. Didn't see that. 

[Naughty Cal]

16 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:

I like the dog keeping an eye on proceedings.

He was asleep for most of the trip. Just popped his head up to photobomb the picture

[Nightwatch]

Looks like a currentcake dog. Spotty dog, Dalmatian.

[Naughty Cal]

3 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:

Looks like a currentcake dog. Spotty dog, Dalmatian.

He is indeed a dalmatian. His name is diesel and he is a lovely old man. He didn't have a good end to the day though. He fell in off the pontoons in Torksey Lock cut twice!

Daft dog!

Had to modify the towing rig for today as Hewy Louis ram into the back of Naughty-Cal yesterday damaging the drop down bathing platform with the bow roller. Daft thing was we had removed the anchor as we thought that might cause more damage. In hindsight it might not have!

New rig worked a treat though. Much easier to tow today and kept the boats apart. Think we might get one to stick in the anchor locker for future reference.

[rusty69]

6 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:

His name is diesel and he is a lovely old man

They obviously hadn't run out of diesel then, although maybe there was water in it.

[Naughty Cal]

1 minute ago, rusty69 said:

They obviously hadn't run out of diesel then, although maybe there was water in it.

It was a V8 petrol engine!

[rusty69]

3 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:

It was a V8 petrol engine!

It was a joke!

[Momac]

4 hours ago, Naughty Cal said:

It was a V8 petrol engine!

Did they mis-calculate the fuel consumption ?

 

[Naughty Cal]

8 hours ago, MartynG said:

Did they mis-calculate the fuel consumption ?

 

No. The engine made it to West Stockwith but stopped in the lock and wouldn't restart. Thought it was the starter motor so tracked one down and got it fitted on Sunday. Not that. It has water in the pistons and has hydrauliced up. 

Needs a strip down to find out what is wrong.

[Momac]

1 hour ago, Naughty Cal said:

No. The engine made it to West Stockwith but stopped in the lock and wouldn't restart. Thought it was the starter motor so tracked one down and got it fitted on Sunday. Not that. It has water in the pistons and has hydrauliced up. 

Needs a strip down to find out what is wrong.

Oh dear.

Could be a new engine required. 

[Naughty Cal]

Could be. A shame as they have only had Hewy Louis a few weeks and this was their first proper run out on it.

Their survey picked up that the engine was running a bit rough but the surveyor, an engineer and the brokerage agreed it was just stale fuel as it had been sat in the tank a long time!!

[Nightwatch]

Interesting. If head gasket or something else was defective and not picked up by the the Surveyor what's the next step? Surely, if stale fuel was suspected and confirmed as the fault by two professionals and it wasn't stale fuel etc.

[Momac]

9 hours ago, Naughty Cal said:

Could be. A shame as they have only had Hewy Louis a few weeks and this was their first proper run out on it.

Their survey picked up that the engine was running a bit rough but the surveyor, an engineer and the brokerage agreed it was just stale fuel as it had been sat in the tank a long time!!

On the plus side it stopped in the lock - could have been interesting if it had failed at 20 knots .

Did the engine  continue to run rough after fresh fuel was added ? Or perhaps fesh fuel was not added ? 

 

[Naughty Cal]

Fresh fuel was added at Torksey on Saturday morning. The engine continued to rough but we all put it down to a cold petrol engine at this point!

[Naughty Cal]

The news thus far is the engineers have looked at the engine. Flushed the water through, changed the fluids and the good news is the engine runs. 

The engineers think it is a leaking exhaust bellow. So out it comes to find out.

[rusty69]

When I was a lad, they were called mechanics.

[WotEver]

5 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

When I was a lad, they were called mechanics.

And toilet attendants weren’t called Sanitory Supervisors. 

[rusty69]

2 minutes ago, WotEver said:

And toilet attendants weren’t called Sanitory Supervisors. 

And traffic wardens weren't called parking technicians

[Naughty Cal]

30 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

When I was a lad, they were called mechanics.

Mechanics work on cars. 

You have to add marine in front of engineer to warrant the huge increase in hourly rate charged