/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : : In a message dated 19/05/2007 16:13:14 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : At one lock on the 9 we opened the bottom paddles on one lock but didn't : notice a boat leaving the lock below it. That boat was swept across/onto the top : of the by-weir where it was jammed by the pressure of water. With a : combination of opening and closing the right paddles and using ropes we finally : managed to get it off the weir. :
If you are coming down the GU Buckby flight and the boat at the lock behind drops the water at the wrong time you can't open your bottom gates. -- Brian Ancient Order of Sewer Ants Visit this site and help save our waterways http://www.savethewaterways.org.uk: :
