Heard on the cut

[FadeToScarlet]

The person doing the locking when we're boating tends to do less lock work than the person steering!

 

Around narrow locks, the lock worker will normally get off at a convenient bridgehole and walk/jog to the lock to set it. Once the boat is in the lock, the steerer will get onto the lockside and be closing a gate, whilst the lockworker goes to the other end and draws a paddle. The steerer then comes up, draws the other, and supervises the boat up or down, whilst the lockworker then walks to the next lock. The steerer brings the boat out of the lock and goes to the next one.

[ditchcrawler]

The person doing the locking when we're boating tends to do less lock work than the person steering!

 

Around narrow locks, the lock worker will normally get off at a convenient bridgehole and walk/jog to the lock to set it. Once the boat is in the lock, the steerer will get onto the lockside and be closing a gate, whilst the lockworker goes to the other end and draws a paddle. The steerer then comes up, draws the other, and supervises the boat up or down, whilst the lockworker then walks to the next lock. The steerer brings the boat out of the lock and goes to the next one.

Don't you also close up?