New prop on!!!

Woke this morning to a thin layer of ice on the canal, just our luck as we were off to have our new prop fitted. It was a bit of a tight squeeze getting to the slipway.

Bit of shunting back and forth and all was well.

This is the contraption the boats sit on to be hauled out.

Here we go!!!

Up out of the water.

Old prop coming off, we found that the size on this prop was 20/15.

Pauls “little” helper.

Old prop and new one side by side, quite a bit of difference in the size, new one is 20/20.

What are friends for but to give you a leg up when you forgot your tape!

All fitted and nice and shiny.

Jake the peg?

Braunston church from a different angle.

Not often the canal here is this quiet, tap was frozen though so couldn't top up with water.

Coming along on tick over, Paul is well impressed as now he is travelling on tick over and actually moving, where as before he was doing 1200 revs and just about travelling now he can do 600 revs and coast along. We had to bite the bullet and buy two new bow thruster batteries, they had them on special offer at The Wharf House so got them while there. They have also ordered some Morrison's oil for Paul as the first oil change is due, we pick that up on Monday.

We returned to the same mooring spot but believe it or not cannot get all the TV channels we had before.

Paul has fitted the new batteries and struggled to make them fit in the locker,  they are obviously a tad bigger than the old ones. so the battery box has had to be redesigned to accommodate them.

It is nice to have the sun shining and a clear blue sky even though it is freezing cold.