Liam

Yes the Bridgewater is all clear between Leigh and the northern side of the breach.

Nope, the big hole still remains...

More modern? The Lister HR2 is a 1960s based engine, where as the RN and Gardner designs somewhat predates that! However those options do give you the added benefit of hot water via the water cooling system.

Can I ask where you sourced your Tokheim fuel pump from? They're bloody good pumps them 👍

Sustrans have no interest in that section of the towpath as it comes under Warrington Borough Council who refused to chip in years ago when the "Bridgewater Way" scheme came into being. The towpath wasn't upgraded and so that's why there's no cycling permitted (officially!) from Altrincham through to Moore!

I can't remember the exact contents of the letter so won't try one quote anything here now, incase I get it wrong and get lynched! But there's no mention of an insurance payout in the letter, that came from the engineer at a user group meeting. Edited to add - came from the engineer after concerns were raised about commiting to the financial side over the breach.

I'm out boating at the moment but can share on here when I get back 🙂

Me! 🙂

The 1971 breach was the reason the Bridgewater Trust was formed, which was a "get together" of all the councils in the area which the canal ran through. Manchester, Salford, Wigan, Trafford, Warrington and Halton (as it is now, not sure what it was back then) which came up with the funding for the restoration. Although the breach took 2 years to fix back then, The actual ground works only took 8 months, the rest of the time was taken with sorting out who's paying for what, and probably a lot of arguments embetween. Of course the Bridgewater Trust is still in existence, I beleive, but the money to fix it this time is, I've heard, coming through a rather large insurance claim! And of course the delay will be a knock on effect of that, and with all the rest of the H&S etc that goes with it. If you're a Bridgewater license holder you would have received a letter through the post from the Bridgewater Canal Co with information on the breach, confirming that they will be repairing it and the appropriate time frames for the work.

When you're cranking can you hear the injectors squeeking, and is there any exhaust smoke? I would concur you need to bleed the air from the pump, probably at least once as mostly you don't get it all first time around.

Bring your boat over, we'll find you a spot.

The winding hole on the north side of Ye Olde No 3 by the Swan with 2 Nicks is still open and the furthest point you can on the southern side, and whilst you can turn a 70ft boat around there it's quite a tight spot now, because of the chain across the canal which is protecting the temporary damn. HTH Liam

Ack. Sounds like the routers borked.

Can you try your phone SIM in the router?

Can you download the firmware update file to.your computer using the house internet, and then connect your computer to the router to do a manual firmware update by uploading the file to it rather than downloading it?