Piper Narrowboat ramming a lock gate

[TheBiscuits]

I think it is badly written. I think it refers to the total cost of gates due for replacement this winter on a particular region, section or canal (or maybe the whole system but this seems less likely)

From https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/our-work/major-works/building-lock-gates

 

"The programme usually requires the manufacture of around 180 lock gate leaves per annum, at a cost of approximately £1.8m."

 

So around ten grand each gate, but that could be a range of about 5k to 20k depending on the gate size. Plus the costs of teams, cranes, pumps etc.

 

I agree that 80k sounds a bit steep for one gate, but that might well be the total budgeted cost for replacing gates on lock 83.

 

Edited to add:

 

It is certainly not the total spend for lock gates in the North West this winter looking at the draft stoppages list - they are listing a lot of work in Blackburn that didn't get done last year.

Edited September 3, 2015 by TheBiscuits

[Emerald Fox]

500 quid? He must have friends in high places! Got off lightly, eh?

 

As for the other berserker, yes, CRT should claim off his insurance company. Otherwise - why am I paying insurance? CRT insists on it...

 

Both boaters to have licences revoked for 1 year I'd say as a suitable side punishment.

Or they could choose to sit in a set of stocks at Foxton Locks for one month with an ample supply of squashy tomatoes nearby in a box.