He phoned us this morning at 9:30 to say he was heading off. We got into our car and as we drove off the marina we could see him traveling towards Woolhampton.
We parked in a pub car park and walked to the lock, once the lock was ready, empty and with the gates open, we walked to the swing bridge, the Dutch barge was just coming round the corner so I stopped the traffic, dropped the barriers to closed the road and opened the bridge. Once he was through I closed the bridge, opened the barriers and released the traffic.
When the barge was in the lock we closed the gates and filled it with water, once the levels were equal we opened the gates and the barge continued its journey and we emptied the lock, some can be left full, some must be emptied. Hopefully someone will help us sometime with a lock.
7 comments:
There must be a high level of camaraderie and cooperation among boaters. Glad you were there to lend a hand.
I'm sure you will be repaid for all the good turns you do, to help other people. Karma!
You do help people a lot! It's nice that you get to meet all these different characters on the boats. More interesting than most neighborhoods.
Your kindness will have made all the difference to his day. Bless you bith
Such wonderful camaraderie on the canal. Those locks you describe don't appear easy to manage single handed.
Hope that is not a hard job to do. It makes travelling like that so enjoyable when everyon pitches in to help each other.
I have had a canal holiday many years ago and the children loved working the locks, best bit they thought.
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