Malcolm wrote: > Even in a narrow lock - a boat can surge back and forth unless the > paddles are used very, very carefully ? :-)
But surely EVERYONE ALWAYS uses the paddles very, very carefully don't they? If not I don't see its BWs problem if they sink their boat. Steve NB Bream (who has spend the past fortnight learning to use ropes in locks on the GU and Thames after somehow getting by for 35 years without them...)
