Will wrote: > I'm not usually into BW bashing but I'm flabbergasted that this has > not been thought out more carefully. Even if it is shown that the > addition of bollards is a good idea, there are surely other H&S issues > that needed to be addressed at the same time that would have been > highlighted had there been any sort of consultation.
Absolutely. To some extent, of course, original lock designs vary greatly from canal to canal (which is a good thing) and, as you say, "different boats behave differently in different locks". But I do wonder a little (particularly with reference to Martin's observation about 70-footers on the T&M) whether some of this might have been exacerbated by 20 years of BW buggering around with paddles. The T&M locks have been in operation for 240-ish years - surely it didn't survive all that time with locks that were unsuitable for the main length of boat that used them? Richard
