Shades of the 'Goodbye Grannie' at Wardle lock. --- On Fri, 8/8/08, Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Bollards To: [email protected] Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 10:17 PM On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:41:06 +0100, Brian from sunny Suffolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED] info> wrote: >David Sullivan submitted this idea : > >> >> BTW I would welcome some bollards at narrow locks as my >> 50ft boat is inexorably sucked forward at some locks to hit the top gate >> when the paddles are raised. >> >Stick it against the gate to start with > Yes - but then what. Opening a paddle will often make the boat move back a meter or so and then once the water flows establishes itself the boat will be moved forward again - and hit the gate / cill. So you either use a line ashore to stop the boat moving back - use the engine to keep it against the cill/gate or open paddles very slowly. single handed - I choose to use a line - why burn fuel unnecessarily - especially in today's high fuel cost climate. -- Malcolm [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
