Tuesday, 30 July 2013

From Foxton to Market Harborough



Map Reference SP 72540 87911

Distance travelled 5.6 miles

Again another fairly slow day covering only a handful of miles but then we did pass through Foxton Locks which is 10 in immediate succession. All I had to do was steer, Julia did the hard work of opening and closing the lock gates and paddles. Fortunately the weather held up (totally different from the forecast!) and she didn’t get wet at all whilst working the locks.

It seems that the power consumption problem isn’t just as a result of me leaving a light on since we again awoke to the ‘low battery’ light on the inverter brightly lit. Have checked locally and it seems that Debdale Wharf marina seem to have some expertise in this sort of thing so will travel to there tomorrow to try to resolve the problem. We will be unable to make it to Leicester before Friday as the CRT are closing one of the locks between here and Leicester to repair the gate so we will have an even slower Thursday with only a few miles and a tunnel under our belt (assuming that we are not tied down at Debdale Wharf for more than a day.

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