On 9/7/07, Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my experience, it is *always* choppy outside Limehouse lock, enough > to be at least mildly uncomfortable in the barge.
Especially nearer the top of tide where there is no mud flats to soak the waves up. > We were once overtaken by one of the Millennium boats near the WI > Docks entrance lock (a little further downstream, but that makes no > difference for this discussion). It was going very fast, and creating > a serious wake. I turned away to take it on the stern quarter as much > as possible, but even so the barge rolled so much that the gunwales > went under. Fortunately, the decks are all sealed, so very little > water got inside. However, there was almost £1,000 damage to stuff on > board, and a lifering was lost overboard. I actually have some video filmed from the deck of one of these pushing against a dropping tide passing a narrowboat at Greenwich. I've put that and some other shots of narrowboats bobbing about on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMO5AVE3m3w I noticed on the SOW protest cruise that narrowboats tend to wallow less in waves from the side than wide beam boats. I don't know why. Cheers, Mike -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/
