jamie N
Well-known member
Preparing to enter the last lock and leave Crinan, I was chatting with a lady from another yacht about Crinan. She'd far more experience of canals than myself, here, EU & the America's. She found it ridiculous that the locks were in such a poor state, and told me that on Canadian canal's there's no need to "throw a line up to 'someone' on the lockside", as they've installed lines from the top down, every 3 or so metres along the lock. The yottie simply has to run a line around the vertical line, and then go up or down with it.
Why isn't this standard? The line will of course have wear, and need replaced, thus it's a consumable of running an efficient operation.
More expensive to engineer of course would be vertical hard 'tubes' to serve the same purpose, but the way it's done at present is literally upside down.
Why isn't this standard? The line will of course have wear, and need replaced, thus it's a consumable of running an efficient operation.
More expensive to engineer of course would be vertical hard 'tubes' to serve the same purpose, but the way it's done at present is literally upside down.