We often use the moorings above this lock and tend to watch the boats go by.
One of the things that does occur here regularly when you arrive to go up in
this lock and the lock's against you is to find there is a boat approaching
(sometimes slowly passing the many moored boats that are often there). You
decide to wait (as you should). Then you wait and wait... until without warning
the approaching boat moves over and moors - joining the boats already there.
This can leave you (who has wasted 5 minutes being a good og) a little hot and
bothered.
It is amazing how often it happens here. (On one occasion we came out the
top and left the gate open only for the approaching boat to dive in and moor.
By the time we had moored and gone to the shop, closing the gate on the way,
two more had approached and moored.
Maybe the lady had suffered in this way in the past. (Or maybe she was hours
behind on her 'must reach tonight schedule' - a problem that seems to happen
along this arm quite a lot given the speed some of them travel at between
locks.)
On a lighter note we noticed the barnacles were back in this lock on our last
visit with a group near the ladder blowing water really nicely!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone can you please sort out something that has been
niggleing me for twelve months. Last summer we were on the Middlewich
arm of the Shroppie. We were waiting to go up the I think it
was the Venetian lock. There were a few waiting to go up, so we
helped people through up and down. We had let a boat out of the
lock that had gone up. There were no more boats to come down but
about two hundred yards away there was a boat aproaching, so I
said wait for the boat and it can go down with the water that
was in the lock. a lady from another boat said no we can empty
the lock and get another boat up before the boat arrives at the top
of the lock. I said surely that's waisting water. The lady said
the lock has to be emptied sometime. My point is they emptied a
full lock of water instead of waiting. Should I have stood my
ground or reported the lady.
Look forward to your input Dave
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