A sad sight indeed .....

[boatone]

Romney Lock, thursday afternoon around 4pm. on self service. Suddenly struck me how sad and lonely this looks.......

 

[rosssavage]

Nah, prefer that to a sunny bank holiday weekend B1!!

 

[MoodySabre]

It's a lovely photo. Does the boat owner feel sad and would he feel happier with another 10 boats in the lock? When I'm out sailing on the river mid-week in the winter and there is no other boat in sight it makes me happy buy sorry for all the poor beggars at work ( not that sorry tbh).

 

[TrueBlue]

Danger! Danger!
Attention All Ships

Boatone ventures outside his comfort zone

Too late suspect he's tucked up in safety now...

 

[oldgit]

Typical Thames boater .How many times to do have tell people to move to the far end of the lock

 

[Actionmat]

It's a shame the lock walls aren't cleaned anymore.

 

[apollo]

word got out you were coming....

 

[boatone]

Typical Thames boater .How many times to do have tell people to move to the far end of the lock

Ah, there's the rub...... if lock unmanned have to be able to get off boat which means being alongside steps and thats a deep lock. Absolutely no one else about anyway so what's your problem?

 

[oldgit]

It's a shame the lock walls aren't cleaned anymore.

They are looking for volunteers apparently

 

[DogsBody]

Ah, there's the rub...... if lock unmanned have to be able to get off boat which means being alongside steps and thats a deep lock. Absolutely no one else about anyway so what's your problem?

If lock is unmanned, drop crew off at waiting zone to open gates, take the boat in yourself and moor up. No need to climb up those messy, slippery steps and crew does all the work!

 

[Antony Collis]

I hope you don't mind but i'd like to use that for a screen saver for a bit....

 

[CX54WEK]

Blimey you lot are spoiled.

We have to work our own locks all winter on the Trent. Its easy!

Stop complaining

 

[bumperdump]

Blimey you lot are spoiled.

We have to work our own locks all winter on the Trent. Its easy!

Stop complaining

it is easy to work the fully automated locks on the thames, mind you plenty of idiots keep pressing as many buttons as they can.

 

[mlines]

Or as experienced at Marsh Lock today (self service at lunchtime), hire boat sitting in lock "waiting for it to work automatically"

 

[Alpha22]

Blimey you lot are spoiled.

We have to work our own locks all winter on the Trent. Its easy!

Stop complaining

'E you 'ad it tough???

We have to work our own locks all the time on the Gt Ouse......!!!! However, the crew has never complained!!!