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From: David Cragg <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, 11 February, 2010 15:42:52
Subject: Re: [canals-list] Considerate Boaters guide - lift bridges
Having downloaded the 'considerate boater manual - free from
www.considerateboat er.com - I was fascinated by some of their ideas. The ones
that really interested was the 'tips on lift bridges'. Here it is suggested
that, if a boat or boats are following yours as you approach a bridge, then you
moor and work the bridge, wave them through to then be in front of you, then
you go through, wind the bridge down and head off, merrily taking up station at
the back of the line. My first thought was that anyone working the Whitchurch
bridge heading downsteam and letting boats behind pass here might find
themselves waiting hours at Grindley Brook having lost their place in the 3 up
three down queue by being good!
The method I was taught, instead of the wave through, was the you open, get on
as the boat comes through, they behind then close the bridge - a method which
the manual says is not done as the boater behind might be unable to close the
bridge. Given the bollards now installed in the offside of such bridges one
assumes the unable means not unable due to getting not ashore but to more
physical problems. As the physical in this case is getting off and winding down
I cannot see this.
What do others think?
>From the blurb on the web site this guide is given out to hirers as being 'the
>method' Most of it seems reasonable though some bits...
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Having opened a lift bridge on the Llangollen canal and proceeded through, I
was in the process of picking up my crew having left the bridge open for a
following boat that had come into view,only to be later berated by the lady
from the following boats crew for NOT CLOSING THE BRIDGE. I was speachless, the
fact was that by this time another boat had come into view.I did not stay
around to find out what happened. On the L/L I have found that travelling with
another boat you make faster progress by take turns in opening the bridges
around Skipton, on a wide waterway you have more space to play with.
CKP
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