Post by Graham on Aug 30, 2016 21:24:54 GMT
Going down a lady arrived half way through, we had only open one paddle etc as we were in no hurry. Lady strongly suggested my crew cross the gate and open the other paddles. I suggested from the boat she was welcome to open the offside paddles but my crew had a bad back. So she did and then came and had a grumble at me, she was 71 one etc etc, I pointed out I was 75 and disabled and she went away.
Now why tell you all that irrelevant crap.
Well Kat my crew opened the nearside gate for me. Oh better tell you lock 10 had a substantial brick bridge across the canal immediately after the bottom gates. Anyway Kat opens the gate for me, because the wind has skewed Clarence across the lock although the bows were perfectly place to leave the lock my view was obscured by the offside gate. As I left the lock and straighten Clarence I viewed with surprise etc a boat trying to enter the lock, well so it seemed to me. Having recover my wits I went hard astern and Clarence stopped but not before connecting not hard with the other boat. At this point the lady mention before opened the offside gate and directed her man to enter the lock. Only problem was that in order to do that he had to push his boat tight to the side of the bridge and the curve of the archway was insufficient to receive the boat, resulting in an interesting scrapping noises and the chimney on the boat was crushed by the impact with the bridge.
Now could someone tell me of it is an obstruction to block the exit to a lock when it is in use for its designed purpose.
Now why tell you all that irrelevant crap.
Well Kat my crew opened the nearside gate for me. Oh better tell you lock 10 had a substantial brick bridge across the canal immediately after the bottom gates. Anyway Kat opens the gate for me, because the wind has skewed Clarence across the lock although the bows were perfectly place to leave the lock my view was obscured by the offside gate. As I left the lock and straighten Clarence I viewed with surprise etc a boat trying to enter the lock, well so it seemed to me. Having recover my wits I went hard astern and Clarence stopped but not before connecting not hard with the other boat. At this point the lady mention before opened the offside gate and directed her man to enter the lock. Only problem was that in order to do that he had to push his boat tight to the side of the bridge and the curve of the archway was insufficient to receive the boat, resulting in an interesting scrapping noises and the chimney on the boat was crushed by the impact with the bridge.Now could someone tell me of it is an obstruction to block the exit to a lock when it is in use for its designed purpose.
