> > Meant to add, Caen Hill is stopped as the bottom gates at Lock 24 have > collapsed completely, and new ones will have to be fabricated, so > we're looking at around a month, in the middle of the hire season, not > that this canal is a good place for hirers... >
The latest news is that BW hopes to have the canal open on 9 July. There is a set of gates earmarked for another lock, which were due to be installed last winter but the ice was too thick, and which can be modified to fit Lock 24 rather more quickly than making a new set. --- In [email protected], chris potter <chriskpot...@...> wrote: > > Do you not think that gates which fail so completely in such a short time > after restoration could not have been made to a high standard in the first > place? In the early seventies I well remeber a set of gates on Heartbreak > Hill bearing the date 1905 carved in one of the main beams. This on one of > the last narrow canals to have regular commercial traffic. How many more > gates are going to fail on the K& A in the coming years? due to poor > workmanship or materials? and will other restored canals suffer the same > fate?. CKP > In this case they failed because a boat hit them so hard that they were damaged beyond repair!
