second and third locks from the bottom are fitted with anti vandal 
locks,
  these require a BW key to open them and as the bottom gates are 
padlocks
  which hold the key captive until relocked makes bit of mucking about.

Brian

In my view this is a counterproductive design, if your BW key is in a 
bunch fixed to your belt by a lanyard, in which case the only way to get 
back to the engine-room and move the boat was to lock the padlock on 
thin air, which is how it stayed as I couldn't leave the boiler again! 
BW would do better to trust boaters to act responsibly rather than 
trying to coerce them.

Sean 


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