We drop our black flats once in any Bosley lock coming up - they keep us off the walls in all but 8 which is too thin for flats at the top. At Thurlewood and most T&M on that side of the hill it's the large overlap of stones near the top you have to watch out for - they can do a job on your upper paint but most are smoothed so won't catch the irons.
--- On Tue, 10/7/08, Sheila Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Sheila Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: singlehanding (was: Bollards - installation suspended) To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 1:57 PM On 6 Oct 2008, at 20:54, Steve Wood wrote: > does anyone have any > thoughts why this happened and what I could have done to avoid it? I can't remember Thurlwood well enough to be sure, are there any of those iron retaining fittings in the lock wall? There are quite a few on the Bosley flight, they have big cross pieces on the outside which are rounded off. We once had an unpleasant experience with the rubbing strake near the stern getting caught under one as we ascended. Getting the forrard end of the boat caught over one on the way down might be enough to twist the hull and start it jamming. If that is the problem I'm afraid I don't know the solution for a single hander. In our case part of the steerer's job is to kick away from the side with retaining bolts. 末 All the best Sheila There are no strangers on the cut, only boaters we've yet to meet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
