Robbie's forced to jump ship to re-float the Naughty Lass when he becomes marooned in the mud on the Perry Barr Flight. Later in the journey he travels under Birmingham's Spaghetti Junction and his narrowboat takes a nasty knock on the Coventry Canal.

Robbie takes a tumble at Buckby Locks in Northamptonshire and moors up in a favourite canal village, Braunston the spiritual home of narrowboaters where he meets a mate and buys a new chimney for the Naughty Lass.