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Post by dogless on Mar 3, 2024 16:27:00 GMT
We headed down the south Stratford today.
A lovely canal.
However an older Springer type boat followed us into the top lock, and we later learned it had got stuck in the lock.
Transpires the boat managed to reverse out and abandoned the attempt.
No fenders down ... the boat was simply too wide.
I know one of the Wilmcote flight has closed-up slightly, but I've never heard that these locks are notoriously narrow.
Anyone had any issues ?
Rog
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Post by brummieboy on Mar 3, 2024 18:44:56 GMT
When I had the cruiser, a Burnham 24ft, I had a problem one year after I used a piece of plastic gas pipe to protect the deck rubbing strip. The boat was 7ft at the widest point so the additional 3/4" was the proverbial last straw.
The celebrated case was of course, in the first series of Waterworld when Paul Aldridge from Wombourne with Uranus had an argument with the one armed lockeeper after getting stuck going into an empty lock around Lowsonford I think.
Edit to add: The Burnham 24 was a lovely boat, built at Burnham on Sea, and was an estuary boat. when I had it lifted to paint it, you could see that the only straight edge to it was the transom. Sweeping sides made narrow bridges and locks interesting to say the least.
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Post by Telemachus on Mar 3, 2024 19:55:02 GMT
We headed down the south Stratford today. A lovely canal. However an older Springer type boat followed us into the top lock, and we later learned it had got stuck in the lock. Transpires the boat managed to reverse out and abandoned the attempt. No fenders down ... the boat was simply too wide. I know one of the Wilmcote flight has closed-up slightly, but I've never heard that these locks are notoriously narrow. Anyone had any issues ? Rog They are narrower than most but not less than 7’2” (except maybe the rogue one on the Wilmcote flight). Maybe the Springer had spread, been overplated, or was bananarised? |
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Post by dogless on Mar 3, 2024 20:08:22 GMT
That was our guess TelemachusJust wondered if anyone had heard of any issues. Rog |
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