> "sean neill" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another variant is the floating dry dock. Floatation tanks in the > dock are allowed fill, and the dock sinks until the boat to be docked > can float over the supports in the dock. Then the gate is closed and > the floatation tanks are pumped out. The water in the dock itself > drains out by gravity as the dock rises. > Ah yeah, i was goi to put in a line about floating dry docks. - Theres one at anderton marina, just accross the canal from travelreign, aptly named "titanic".
Its just a 15ft wide, 75ft long, 3ft deep box. With a flapdown door at one end. And a large valve at the other. - They sink it till it lays on the sahllow bottom, float the boat in, pull up the door on a chain, and pump it out with pair of small petrol pumps. - Then to get the boat , they just open the valve till its partly full, and open the door and let the rest in. We where going to do into it to do some minor work and a hull survey on emilyanne. Unfornatly the area under the dry dock has silted up a lot, to an extent where they couldnt get the tank low enough to get her over the cill. - The i mearly have about 10 photos of her repeatedly ramming the tank with her skeg!! - However, theres a pair of photos of the tank on there webpage at http://www.alvechurch.com/marinas/anderton/index.html - Which infact show the tank sunk noticably further down than it was when we tryed to get in it. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
