PJBear

thanks all for the answers it has given a lot to think about and a few issues have beeen raised that I had not concidered - I would have taken the time to comment on each answer more indepth but not sure how to at the moment? Must look up what the quote button does?

I am starting to plan a new cannal boat and as I only work a couple of months a year and my partner works all year but only part time I will be boating alone for most of the time and I am worried that when doing a lock on my own the boat will get beaten up, especially as I am not experienced, so as an electronic engineer I thought if I was to have a bow and stern thruster I could adapt a car parking distance kit and use that to control the thrusters to keep the boat off of the walls of the lock. I would be interrested in your views - Am I worrying too much about doing locks on my own and should just have the thrusters in manual mode or is it a good idea - if I can get it to work?