On 6 Jun 2007, at 17:35, Mack, David wrote:
> You need a pole with a hook on it, to pull the gate rather than push
> the
> balance beam. The pole can be shorter and lighter, and if anything
> slips you end up on land and not in the water.
>
Now he tells me :-}
To answer the original question, if you had a decent length of boat
hook, I'm sure you could use it to close the offside gate, a la the
Thames lockie with their hitchers
––
All the best
Bruce
"Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground you cannot think of
moving them" Arthur Ransome, 'Racundra's First Cruise'
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