After serious thinking John wrote :
> Bruce wrote:
>
> I had a rant on the blog yesterday about the three bollards per
> narrow lock idiocy, which made me wonder if anyone has any clue why
> BW thought this was such a good idea. They are all over the Delph 9
> and Stourbridge 16, and seem to be spreading from there onto the
> Staffs and Worcs.
>
> (see http://nbsanity.blogspot.com/)
>
> I can't recall any serious account of the genesis of it - what's the
> point?
>
> I asked Jim Stirling (used to be BW Scotland Director but is now Technical
> director of BW) why BW was installing what we thought were unnecessary
> bollards on narrow locks (we had just done the Llangollen). His reply was
> that they were there to help shorter boats which might surge back and
> forwards in a lock - he mentioned GRP cruisers. It is a H & S issue
> apparently.
>
> Ann
>
> We have just cruised up the South Oxford and there are newly installed
> bollards at each lock and are all of the cast metal type (most are covered
> with brown sacking).
Not here the haven't (Napton top lock) yet, there are 3 red crosses on
the concrete
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