After months of tending to Vera in her old age, sorting Muriel`s diesel problem and waiting for the weather to change, we`re finally on our way - our Summer cruise has begun.
We hung around Pillings Lock for almost a week, waiting for the weather to turn, enjoying a meal in the Boat House, motoring up the canal to
Loughborough a couple of times and mooring close to Millers Bridge over night. We even visited the Leicester Boat Festival, despite the rain. But today, Thursday, the sun shone, the rivers (Soar and Trent) were no longer in flood and we were able to head down to the Trent & Mersey.
M behaved well so we are optimistic that our fuel bug/water problem has been cured (after diesel polishing, re-masticing the fuel intake and killer dose of Marine 16) and with a change of filters after about another 30 hours of running, she should be OK through the Summer and into Autumn.
We are now at Shardlow, sitting under the pram cover listening to the rain. But it can rain all it likes for the moment - we are off the river. Tomorrow we may head up towards Weston, just a couple of locks away.
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| M prepares to enter Bishops Meadow Lock, Loughborough. Black Bart was coming up. |
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| The 3M Building, Loughborough. |
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| Sue, M and Normanton-on-Soar. |
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| Upturned jetty and sunken BW boat on the Soar. |
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| Sawley Flood Lock in use (gauge just in the amber) |
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