As BW want something innovative and radical for the MK Link, couldn't Santa bring some of the ice from the North Pole (while it's still there!) and create a boat slide - a sheet of ice to slide the boat down the hill. By attaching a rope and winch, it should be relatively easy to attach a hawser to pull a boat upwards - apart from the distance involved of course!
(Me) I would have thought a nice carpet of Teflon-coated bankers would do the trick?? Or resurrect the vacuum railway that Burrell 'invented' - fit a piston to the boat and insert the piston into a vacuum tube alongside the slide to suck it up the hill. I'm sure an Icelandic finance company would see the sense in the concept and back it. (Me) But would the rats gnaw away at a financial vacuum? David Sean
