Braunston

Here I am Rune

Distance 7.5 miles

Total 950 Locks 56 Tunnels

Running total mileage 1344 miles

At the start of the day it looked as though we may delay our passage into Braunston until Friday since it had been raining since the early hours of the morning. As the weather cleared about 11am we decided to press on although the forecast was for a bit of wind. RUNE actually handles quite well in the wind since it is quite deep draughted and also has quite a low profile so doesn’t catch the wind too badly. The secret of travelling in the wind is to keep up a reasonable momentum, something that the people in the boat in front of us needed to learn. On the one hand I can understand people being nervous handling a large boat when the wind is pushing you all over the place but on the other hand unless you keep up a decent speed you haven’t got much steerage which makes it all a lot worse. Anyway, wind or no wind, we have got to Braunston OK although the purpose of our arrival hasn’t been so good. 

We came to try to find someone to fix our diesel heating system and were recommended to a marine engineer. Having spoken with the guy in charge it appears that they are fully booked up until May, not what I wanted to hear! Have been given the name of another marine services here who may be able to help so will search them out tomorrow. May well be here until after the weekend.