Published by Liam on 03 May 2008
Towing Job
Today I accomplished one of those jobs that I had been meaning to do for a long time, that is, to slow down the tick over speed of the Perkins D3 engine. Since we bought the boat, back in 2005, on tick over it has been a little too fast but not that as to warrant immediate attention - it was just popped up in my mind now and again. With ten minutes spent in the engine room, and following the advice of Tony Brooks’ friendly advice I managed to slow the engine down enough so that the ignition light stayed off so it continued to charge the batteries. A job well done.Later on, as I was walking down the moorings on the way into town to grab a bite to eat, I noticed a boat moored up on the other side, and by the sounds of the engine kicking over but not firing, and realised they had problems. I spoke to the owner, Dave, who was from the moorings down the “road” from us and offered to help move the boat over to our moorings as it was obvious that he wasn’t going to get moving. After a chat we came to the decision that the boat would be better off taken back to his home moorings so he could work on the job properly. After nipping in to town, I started up the boat and took it down the moorings to Dave. We hitched up and started the short half an hour journey back to his own moorings. On the way down, after chatting, we came to the conclusion it was an electric fault. I winded, dropped him off and then set off back, stopping at a local canal side pub for a well earned pint - where we ended up stopping until much later in the day.
We finally set off at 7.45pm towards Dunham, where we moored for the evening, arriving at 9.15pm and, as planned, in The Vine by 9.30pm! A good day considering we didn’t have anything planned!