Cruising England's canals and having a beer along the way. A blog of occasional news about our trips round England's canals firstly on Nb Eos - a share boat, and then our first boat Nb Notos and now Nb Hamwih.
Sunday 10 February 2019
Weed Hatch Fun
First excursion of the year to the weed hatch today. Twenty minutes after leaving the engine starts to judder. Quickly into neutral, where the engine sounds fine. Try forward again, still juddering, put into reverse and the juddering is worse. Nothing else for it, leave the boat drifting in the middle of the canal and open the weed hatch to find an orange bag wrapped around the prop.
Ten minutes later a builders '1 tonne' sack removed.
The water was freezing though, took twenty minutes to thaw out my hand & arm.