Wet weather gear at Hunton BridgeA grey and rainy day. We have done only 12 miles, but 23 locks, many of which filled extremely slowly. We want to be back at base by the end of Friday, and it has been quite a slog through the rain.
The worst lock was Iron Bridge at Cassio Park, Watford - it leaks almost as fast as it fills. It was almost impossible to open the top gates - I have no idea how elderly boaters can possibly manage to push the gates open.
Many of the locks in this section of canal have no gate paddles on the top gates, which slows things down even more.
Added to this, the engine has developed a strange noise, that no-one has been able to identify, but we are all fairly convinced is NOT A GOOD THING.
2 comments:
Sorry to hear of problems, hope you make (made)it back OK.
Leo
Hi, Leo, we got back around 2:30 this afternoon - almost exactly 2 weeks after we left.
Now I know that my eye problem is not serious, and that it will settle down in a few weeks I can ignore it most of the time. It's hard to ignore something if you don't know if it is serious!
As one of the symptoms is a flashing light around the periphery of my vision it is far more noticable in the dark or semi-dark, and I think it is also more noticable when I'm tired.
Cheers Cath
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