Steve: >But the only way it can work is if you have an engine >sufficiently powerful to keep you on that lock gate. >Otherwise, once you open a paddle it flushes >back and then crashes forward again. I have twelve years >experience of a Springer-type boat that did that.
Should you not be tying a line around the top of the
paddle gear (as in the video "Towpath Encounter") to
stop this happening? It's traditional...
Dave
