Sunday 22 May 2022

Gailey(2)

Here I am Rune

Distance 0.6 miles 

Total 4624 Locks  312 Tunnels

Running total mileage 6,763 miles

A very short day’s cruise but involving a lot of expense. The start of the expense was soon after we moored up on Thursday, going into the back cabin of the boat I found it full of smoke which, to say the least, was a little worrying! Forgetting about all of the advice in such scenarios (such as switch off the battery isolator switches) I immediately went into the engine hole to see where the smoke was coming from. Had the situation been more serious, such as a ‘proper’ fire, that was probably the worst thing to do since when you introduce additional air supply to a smouldering fire it often flares up, but on this occasion it didn’t (fortunately). I turned out that the positive battery cable had shorted out against the negative cable melting the insulation (the source of the smoke in the cabin). To sort that out cost £58 for two new cables. Then came the visit today to have the Esperbacher heating serviced, which, instead of the £150 quoted, actually cost us £340 as we needed a new air pump on it so the total cost here has been circa £390, an expensive stay!

 

Tomorrow we’ll carry on to Penkridge where we need to wait for a couple of days to get a prescription delivered.


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