Morning all
Those who follow my witterings on Living in Sanity will know that the
following tale featured in my latest post:
... a humorous account from the hirers [of Skye] of trying to take
Hatherton, the Ownerships boat in which they have a share, through the
locks on the Huddersfield Broad. Technically those locks are 58 long
and since Ownerships boats are 58 6 it should have been easy to take
her through on the diagonal. Hatherton must be over length, since she
refused to fit into the lock. Her crew became aware of numbers of
office workers in the nearby buildings observing their struggles. They
obviously make a habit of doing this since after a while they held up
signs which said try going through backwards.
Unfortunately, although this strategy worked, the thought of having to
do it at each subsequent lock was so discouraging that they abandoned
the trip and went somewhere else.
I've had a comment asking "How would going backwards help?". I've
explained about fitting the bow into the corner of the lock, but never
having actually boated this waterway (since Sanity is 60', just as
well, looks like), I couldn't be more specific.
Just what exactly is the advantage of reversing down the lock?
All the best
Bruce
Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume,
labuntur anni.
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