"nbquidditch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That's a fair point. It is certainly more difficult (hazardous) to go > against the flow - next time I see the lockie I'll ask him whether > they do take that into account.
Alrewas may be a special case but in general it is safer to go against the flow, so much so that at Chertsey if the river is up and I am going downstream I will turn the barge upstream and go through the bridge backwards as I then have much more control. J
