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Due to low water levels and a desire to not only prove to the lock-keepers that they were correct to let us through, (well and to be bad-asses really) we worked our butts off in order to make it down the flight on 'One Lockful Of Water'.
Once you start you can't stop until you reach the bottom. We each grabbed a windlass (winch handle) and prepared to break the speed record for getting down. Took a bit for us newbies to get the timing worked out but we eventually started to get the hang of it. We teamed up with two on each lock and as one opened the next was filling so that by the time the boat made it there, the theory was we'd have it open and ready to go. We couldn't go more than one lock ahead as we needed to save water and filling more than one would drain too much out.
Text Last Modified Thu Aug 31 08:46:12 2006
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