Homeward Bound Part 2

I drove to Lincoln and brought the boat up to Torksey Lock on the Friday where Fiona met me. After some car juggling we settled down for the night ready for an early start through the lock.

We went through the lock at 8am and set off towards Keadby. The tide was against until around Knaith and then gradually turned to assist our journey.

As we approached Gainsborough we thought our luck had run out as the engine was struggling at above 1500 revs. We slowly pottered to the floating mooring at Gainsborough where I took a look at the engine. Everything looked ok but as the water had been a bit rough I thought the sediment in the fuel tank had maybe been stirred up and partially blocked the fuel filter. I fitted a new filter which I had brought along anyway, gave it a test run and it seemed fine. A quick conversation with the lock keeper at Keadby established we would still had time to get into the lock so we went on our way.

Passing West Stockwith lock, the entrance to the Chesterfield canal.

The entrance to Keadby lock.

After swapping cars about once again we stopped for Saturday night at Godnow Bridge. It would have been a lovely quiet spot were it not for engineering works on the railway!

Sunday night was spent at Thorne moorings before meeting the new junction canal which runs up to the Aire and Calder Navigation where our mooring is located at Pollington.