Grown up children and buying a fourth boat

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I understand the French locks are manned


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I'm afraid that your understanding is wrong. Many of the smaller locks are not manned though the operation is fairly automatic.
 
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Go for it Suzy. I am interested in a river boat as well. I mean as well as you, not in addition to Cornish Maid. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Though that would be my ideal; time on the sea and then time on smooth canals. If i could fit it in, I would love to come with you /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif What dates are you considering?

The boat you showed us all on a recent thread was one I had looked over via the internet and It seemed pretty decent.

As to driving on your own, I had my own boat for a year or two, and I managed to go in & out of Chi marina (lock & all) and around the Solent and moor up on my own, with no trouble. But be warned, you DO have to get things right, as EVERYONE for miles around will be watching /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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I used to lock in and out of Hythe singlehanded. Need to be prepared and don't accept help as it tends to screw up the plan of action.
 
Re: Single handed locking

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At least try to otherwise i could peddal past to see another forumite in the flesh!

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Are you man enough to cope with a Susy?

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Re: Single handed locking

I can understand how you would establish that lock-keepers are all one legged, say, or red-headed, but what locking conversation elicits the fact that they're all single mothers?
'By the way, do any of those children have fathers?' or
'That child drowning, where's his dad?'
Perhaps the info comes out at the lock before...
'Any jam for sale?'
'Yes we're all jam-makers here.'
'How odd.'
'Not really. The people at the next lock are all single mothers.'
 
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We've heard abt your faultless locking. Seriously, one is fine. It's after 20 you get a bit fed up.
 
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Seriously, one is fine. It's after 20 you get a bit fed up.

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Glad you're well, never felt the same after 18 myself .. It'll be the drink I suppose, have you considered giving up?
 
Hi there again (back from Xmas break): on singlehanded locking, in my experience it is mostly fine, and I have negotiated many dozen: I use a centre line and boat hook to get it over a bollard. Rarely have to climb a ladder. Obviously going uphill is more difficult (downhill is a doddle)and some of the deep locks can be quite tricky - on the Canal des Vosges, for example. And don't believe it when people tell you the locks are all manned: many are not.

There is quite a lot of useful info to be found on the eurocanals group site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eurocanals/ and in fact I posted a log of Saskia's cruise last summer there. There was a threat recently about navigating singlehanded. Tom Sommers, who runs the site, also produces a very useful guide to the european waterways on CD.

Best of luck in St Jean

Nick
 
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