All things have to come back to reality, so we said our goodbyes and moored at Whilton for a couple of days and bumped into another friend Matti on appropriately 'Old Friends'!
Loads of ducklings doing well this year!
So we had a barbecue that evening, which was extra tasty, as Matti found a fish in the freezer to go with some other bits. All very civilised!
Beautiful mural on the side of this boat
Thursday night, Richard's brother collected me and took me to my car at his house, so I could drive to Mum's in Lincolnshire and do some errands.
Arriving back the next day, Richard and I took the boats up the 7 locks to Norton junction.
Quietly moored at Top lock above Braunston
We decided that the priority would be to get to Midland Chandlers to get a new exhaust box for the big boat, following the nice choking atmosphere created by the existing one!
The now deceased exhaust box, with big crowbar hole in the side of it!
Wow what a job that turned out to be! Without getting into the specifics of the language used in the removal of aforementioned box, the whole process took ***king hours!!
Hacksawing at the threaded flange
When Richard had got the box off, the flanges on the pipework and the one in the roof still needed to come out so the new exhaust box could simply be screwed back in.
No - that's not going to work. Need a much bigger hammer....
I would say, it took Richard about 2 hours to get each flange off! But then
The finished exhaust!
...suddenly it fell out of the roof and the new exhaust fitted in it's place! Richard would like to comment that no Copperslip had been used in the installation of the original exhaust. So thank you, that marine engineer - go to the top of the class of numpties!
Richard would also would like to say that he DID use Copperslip in his fitting, so next time the bl@@dy thing needs to come off, it will!! I tell you what, the water in the bath tonight was black!
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