We tie front and back, wind nearside paddle up - boat (as usual) moves forward but not too fast at Hatton etc) Then back starts to swing but this can be controlled with back rope - or you can adjust using engine and tiller while keeping front rope taunt and making sure the back rope does not go in the water. When the lock is mostly full the boat (wind permitting) comes in to the bank on the roped side and the ropes can be untied and stuck on. (If the wind is blowing you can use the ropes to pull the boat in anyway.)
--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Neil Arlidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Neil Arlidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Grand Union musings.. To: [email protected] Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 11:30 PM Steve Wood wrote: > Brian Dominic wrote: >> We ARE talking ground paddles here, aren't we? > Haha yes I'm not that mad/brave! > > I've tried it quickly, slowly all variants and with the boat tied on a > tight middle line as I open the paddles and it always drifts across as > soon as I open the nearside paddle even a little bit. > > The sequence I ended up with was: > > Offside ground 2-3 turns > Nearside ground 1 1/2 turns > Wait till water is over the cill. > Offside ground all the way > Offside gate > Nearside ground > Nearside gate > > That keeps the boat on the near side but nothing else I've tried does. > Interestingly speaking to someone at Braunston last week I was told to > open offside first. I wonder if its related to the draught affecting > the water flows? Bream at rest draws 1ft9in at the front and 2ft9in > at the back. ...and the fact that Bream is full length? I should imagine that on Hatton/Stockton that you have to use half the os paddle when filling the lock, untill the paddle culverts are under the baseplate, then full ns paddle? -- Neil Arlidge - NB Erne Nest...Grand Canal...where we can have great fun with 4 gate paddles top and bottom and 2 ground paddles. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
