Only one day free this weekend

Well we have only one day free this weekend so have decided to stay on the boat Friday and Saturday night and just have a run up to Wakefield and head in town for a few beers. Here we are moored at Barnsley Road after being thrown around at Fall Ings Lock which is quite ferocious!

Back to work

We left the boat at Woodlesford due to the adverse weather and came back on Thursday and decided to have a run up to Stanley Ferry. Here I am waiting for the lock to empty at Woodnook Lock at Whitwood.

Unfortunately we had a mishap at Birkwood Lock. There was a severe cross-wind which took hold of the boat slamming it sideways into the canal side and from this point the engine began running very roughly so we had to limp on to Stanley Ferry and investigate there.

Once moored up I investigasted what may have gone wrong. Nothing was obvious but I worked my way through the ignition system being my hunch of the problem. It appeared on refitting the distributor I had not tightened the pinch bolt enough. This allowed the distributor to move when we hit the side of the canal putting the timing out. I retimed and it is now running fine.