Monday 29 July 2013

To Foxton Locks



Map Reference SP 68951 89046

Distance travelled 9 Miles

A day which began with a concern over our power consumption as when we rose this morning the electric inverter had switched itself off and was displaying a ‘low battery’ light. This was hopefully caused by my leaving the foredeck light on overnight coupled with using a computer on the boat batteries last night. I hope that this was the cause anyway otherwise it might mean that we have some rather dodgy batteries on the boat.

Didn’t travel as far today as I would have hoped but this was as a result of a significant thunderstorm at about 1.15pm for which we moored up for a couple of hours to let it pass. Unfortunately there is similar weather forecast for tomorrow so we will have to see how we get on, hoping to get to Market Harborough to moor and get some shopping in. 

The only significant highlight of today was passing through Husbands Bosworth tunnel during which I felt a bit like a salmon swimming upstream, no boat travelling in the same direction as us and three coming from the opposite direction.  The inside of the tunnel wavers about a bit and when passing the oncoming boats we tended to scrape the side of the tunnel a bit causing a rear fender rope to break but other than that no great dramas.

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