Nick wrote: > Neil Arlidge wrote: >> [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... >>> >> <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. > > I've cobbled round a broken throttle by using the engine "pull to > stop" feature until we could get another one. > > A bit of a pain for going through locks, but worked surprisingly well > for general cruising as long as you took care to throttle down before > changing gear.
I always carry spares. Most of our breakdowns have happened at opertune times. The last one to go was a throttle cable...we were in the bottom lock of the Dee Locks Branch, waiting to go up the Dee. Here am I about to fit the new cable http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T04_Imag/04.05.04/Dsc02784.jpg -- Neil Arlidge NB Earnest / Barge Maurice A (in the pipeline) TNC...Gorn west... http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
