Advice for Locks

[Medway1]

Hello,
The Environment Agency are refurbishing a lock on the River Medway this year (Hampstead Lock, Yalding).
I am very interested in your view on what you think the perfect lockside bollards are?
There are a multitude of designs out there, but if you know a lock which has the perfect design then please let me know.
I expect everyone has their own opinion (as do we!) so it will be interesting to see which is the most popular type. Of course if you can point out a photo that would be v helpful.

Remember our locks are unmanned!

Thanks in advance

Medway Squirrel

 

[boatone]

 

[pande]

I agree with Boatone /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Chris_d]

Yep thats definately the best type on the Thames, the ropes can slide off those radiused ones unless you take a turn around them. Most annoying though is bollards that are too far apart for anything except a Thames standard Broom 37'. Worse lock on the river is Goring in which they are too far apart, and too far back from the lock side and every bollard is a different design /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[teddington_lock]

I agree with Boatone too , and i'm a lock keeper !!

Sadly we don't have any of these at Teddington , we have the large wooden ones with a steel rod through them except for a couple of ' ET heads ' here and there ...

 

[DogsBody]

Agree with all the above, definitely the best design of bollard we have on the Thames.

I'm more concerned / worried why Boatone would be going around photographing lock bollards in the first place, unless he went out especially to answer this post, which is exceedingly public spirited of him!

 

[oldgit]

"Most annoying though is bollards that are too far apart"
Agree 101% ...and as many as you can afford down each side please.
Ps.Really must read Notices to Mariners ......halfway through raising paddles before spotting padlock on Yalding Lock.

 

[boatone]

Oh, I take odd pics all the time!

Can you tell me where this one is?

 

[teddington_lock]

Dunno , but you have very nice ropes ....

 

[BrendanS]

No idea, but your website content needs a bit of updating, it's rather repetitive! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[byron]

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Dunno , but you have very nice ropes ....

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Tsk! Tsk! and you a professional too. There is only one rope on a boat... the bell rope. All others are Warps, Lines, sheets or whatever. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Chris_d]

Does that mean its reserved for disabled boaters or a warning of how you might end up if you don't see the bollard /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Presumably at an easy boarding point not a lock, Hampton court?

 

[DogsBody]

Nope, you've got me on that one, I have not come across such a bollard on my Thames travels.

Never heard of a boat mooring reserved for disabled users either?

 

[boatone]

Well, lets say its upstream of Penton Hook and downstream of Bell Weir.

Does that help?

 

[Brayman]

I have seen it but can't remember where, it's a few years since I last ventured down that end. Could it be only just below Bell Weir ie Hotel

 

[Medway1]

Thanks for the replies. Seems like there is only one contender and the "ET" ones are not that popular afterall.

I guess anything can beat the bits of old scaffold pole with a bar through, we have down here.

Medway Squirrel

 

[Chris_d]

Ahh its the Staines town mooring, actualy I think tied up to it earlier this year knew I'd seen it somewhere.

 

[boatone]

Well done ! Just outside the Ha Ha restaurant below Staines Bridge.

 

[teddington_lock]

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No idea, but your website content needs a bit of updating, it's rather repetitive! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Mine ?

 

[Chris_d]

I remembered thinking should i tie up to this or not? like using the disabled spaces in a car park, do you need a sticker to use it I wonder?