Recent content by Riverleak

Are you getting another boat Mr Crusty, or giving up the boating lark?

After talking to the regular lock keeper last week regarding the issue, it seems that the traffic light system is being deployed to protect the lockeeper from the risk of contracting Covid 19. With constant amounts of people standing above him when he has to go under the bridge there is a real...

Cant understand the train of thoughts on this post, on one hand, you're saying you dont want volunteers running locks due to them making mistakes and putting people and vessels in danger, then on the other hand you're saying let them run the locks! You then go on to blame the EA management. If...

Utter tosh! On the canals perhaps, but not on the Thames. The locks are properly engineered with sheet piling and not brickwork.

Without question, the lock should be left with "both sets of gates closed with the lock empty or empyting of water", as per the instruction on each pedestal.

Having moored at a lock for many years and knowing a number of lock keepers as friends I'll try and give a definitive answer on this subject. The phrase double manning was something that was started in the late eighties by the lock staff and was entirely a term used by them for identifying the...

Well the forecast rain didn't get here, and the weather looks set fair for the weekend. Happy boating!

Having just watched the forecast, whats the betting Mondays rain puts the river into Red Boards?

You're very welcome. Roger has done my boat for quite a number of years now, and several of my friends too.

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I do not understand what relevance of you highlighting the fact they're of mixed ethnicity has in this post?

If you're using an outboard secure it with two Yamaha Yamlocks. Made from stainless steel, they're by far the best outboard lock available. Expensive but cheaper than a new outboard. http://www.kingsmarine.co.uk/acatalog/Engine_Accessories.html

I go straight past them to the end of the layby nearest the lock, and then go in ahead of them. The lock laybys have signs that say, " when there is space ahead, please move along", and I've had lockeepers encourage this.