Peter Stockdale presented the following explanation :
> --- In [email protected], "Roger Millin"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Pete wrote:
>>> I am another one with Adrian on this.
>>>
>>> The armco (or its predecessor "legco" as at Nanneys bridge) is designed
>>> as bank protection only.
>>> My moorers are urged not to use the bank protection for securing their
>>> boats.
>>> I have seen several examples of damage to the protection or castings
>>> adrift
>>> where it has been used to secure their boats with ropes, chains, springs
>>> or hooks.
>>
>> Can you please explain why, then, BW fix rings via a U shaped bracket to
>> the top of many pile sheets? Are they there for decoration or for use?
>> Roger
>
>
>
> I am not aware of this system - it is certainly not common round here.
>
> Fixed on-land bollards and rings are the only common facilities provided
> by BW that I have seen.
>
> Do you have any illustrations or photos of examples of this provision?
>
Pity you didn't post this a day earlier, I was moored to two at The
Folly, Napton
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