Running out of fuel!

Ok, I admit it. After a fabulous weekend in Oxford with much partying and silliness, Relativity and I are heading home but I've run out of diesel twice in the last few days. It is so embarrassing when I hear her engine cough and then die. I've then got to find a way of steering 23 tonnes of truculent boat to the side of the Thames and make it look like I was intending to moor at a jaunty angle on a blind bend ;-)

The running out of fuel isn't the problem. I have loads of fuel in the heating tank so it is just a case of syphoning off a few litres and moving them the length of the boat. The real problem is that once she's run out of fuel it takes half an hour with spanners in the engine hole getting covered in diesel and water and usually collecting more cuts and bruises to flush the air locks out of the fuel lines and get the engine running again.

Note to self: Don't run out of fuel again!

Home by mid afternoon.

Thanks to everyone that came at the weekend. We had a blast.