Adrian said: > As for single-handing in France, I suspect it is like the system VNF > uses for enforcing the payment of tolls (the vignette). A check is > made at a very few locks (usually strategically chosen with respect to > their position in the network), and you won't be allowed to pass > through unless you have a vignette (and pay for your arrears). > > Probably at only a few locks are the keepers told to watch for > single-handers. Maybe none on the Nivernais, which IIRC isn't run by > VNF but by the locals (the region, I guess).
You're correct but, one lock where they almost inevitably check the vignette (and on your supposition, the single handing) is the lock at Auxerre where the Nivernais becomes the Yonne (or vice versa, depending on direction of travel). The two boats went through there no probs whatsoever. The next lock where they almost inevitably check full details is at Migennes (the start of the Burgundy) but we stopped at Jo Parfitt's yard, just before the turn off the river. Roger
