Adrian Stott wrote... >But if you look at the actual >effect of shutting gates behind you, you will see it saves relatively >little water in practice. > You are not familiar with northern waters. We passed a boat going the other way at a lock on the Calder and Hebble today. The lock was empty so we waited for the other boat rather than turn it. After the other boat came up through the lock, we went down. The next lock, that the other boat had just come up through, was in sight. By the time we got to the next lock it was empty. The entire lockful had drained through leaky bottom gates. Had the other crew seen us and left the top gates open, the whole pound would have been draining away and would have been completely empty in under half an hour. Shutting the gates can save a lot of water in practice. > >So, no reasons against leaving them open, and no reasons for closing >them. Good argument for changing the rule, methinks.
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