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| Attractive scenery on the Leicester Branch, but..... |
Yesterday when passing through Saddington Tunnel the headlight cut out for for a few seconds. We did not think too much about it since it did not happen again. This morning when some 2 miles from the 1000 yard Husbands Bosworth Tunnel it seemed pruent to check the headlamp before proceeding further. It did not work and there was a worrying smell of burning plastic from the electrics cuppboard. Clearly a major problem since we need to go through 3 tunnels to reach our home mooring and could not do this without a light.
As we are members of RCR, the emergency breakdown service for the canals, we called them out. Fortunately although they only normally regard engine failure as an emergency they accepted that our situation would also be treated in the same way.
An engineer turned up in 90 minutes and quickly found a short circuit in the headlamp which he fixed and the light worked. He had brought a plug-in free-standing light more than adequate for a headlamp as a backup which we decided to keep. When we were within sight of the tunnel we checked again. The headlamp failed. Thank goodness we had the backup which worked even better than the original ever did.
We eventually arrived at Welford Juction at 16:20 and moored for the night. In the next few days we will be returning to our marina as quickly as possible.
3 hours 15 mins moving, 7.32 miolers
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