[email protected] wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> Literally as we were making the final approach onto the pontoons in >> Bristol Floating Harbour yesterday, the Morse control cable linking >> to the fuel pump failed so that the engine wouldn't go over >> tick-over speed > > We once had the gear cable on our Morse control snap while we were > approaching Osney Lock on the Thames, with the result that by the > time the steerer realised that we were still in forward, we were > heading for the gates at quite a lick. > > I have to admit that, in our concern to avoid damaging ourselves or > anything else too badly, we somehow failed to appreciate the > appropriateness of having Morse issues in Oxford... > > Martin L
<groan> We one had a gear cable go at an inaproriate moment, so I lifted an engine cover board and operated the little PRM lever with the boat hook. -- Neil Arlidge NB Earnest / Barge Maurice A (in the pipeline) TNC...Gorn west... http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
