On 01/10/2007, Will Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > According to BW Colwich Lock was used around 9-10,000 times > during 2005. In round figures, that's about 30 boats a day. > Twenty minutes a lock is 3 per hour or 10 hours per day. No > wonder there are queues. Perhaps Great Hayward Marina shouldn't > have got planning permission. ;>) > > > Will Chapman > Save Our Waterways > www.SaveOurWaterways.org.uk >
Very long queue at Colwich when I went through in August. That was the day I did get up early, but was then delayed by the need to revise my oft-quoted nostrum 'you only get a rope round your prop once' to 'I used to say that you only got your rope round your prop once'. This year my impression was that the floods made the canals busier as many revised their routes to avoid any rivers. We got so bored queuing and convoying on the T&M we did the Caldon, which was much quieter, and then the Macc which was busier but still nothing like the Fradley to Stone bit of the T&M. -- Nigel Stanley
