Re: #275 Welford Northamptonshire & Narrow Boat Etiquette

Graham wrote:


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http://www.geebeephoto.com/2007/07275.htm


Nice shot - it's obviously narrowboat week in the forum.. :-)
If you are wondering why, in this day and age, a man steers the boat into the lock whilst the woman breaks her back winding up the sluice gates and opening the lock a brief explanation of narrow boat etiquette can be found here: 
http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Watford_staircase/index.htm
Enjoyed the shots and the amusing explanation. We took a cruiser through the many (and fairly automated) locks on the Shannon-Erne canal a few years ago. My wife (crew and galley-slave) was operating the locks faultlessly - mainly because the computer system won't allow boo-boos - but then decided she wanted to stay with the boat for a change. This was an unusually deep lock, and the look on my wife's face as the boat sank into a hole about 20 feet deep was indeed a picture. However, she motored it out like a trouper. 

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