E22. How to take a narrowboat down through a canal lock on the Kennet & Avon canal
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- This is our take on preparing a lock and then cruising into a lock to take our narrowboat down to the lower level of the canal. The picture depicts what can go horribly wrong in a lock.
This is not an instructional video so please seek expert advice before attempting this
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Brilliant, I've been struggling to understand locks but watching this made everything fall into place, many thanks!
Glad it helped!
Great description of how the locks work.....thank you very much for your video. Well described. 👍👍👍
FINALLY! thank you so very much for explaining the operation of the locks. I've watched at least 150 narrowboat videos and no one has taken up the challenge. It's as if they believe it's completely obvious, but it wasn't for me.
In particular I could never figure out how, single handed, you could open both gates. Having opened one it would take an Olympic style running jump to get across the canal to open (or close) the other. Never occurred to me you could just go around using the other lock, which of course always must be closed. Also you explained the difference between the up lock ground paddles and the lower lock paddles in the gates. That was always confusing, why some lock paddles were different from others. Also a helpful bit of the etiquette to see if a boat was coming from the opposite direction and to save water. Thanks again.
Glad you enjoyed i., It was filmed spur of the moment so it could have been more informative if id planned it better. Read some of the other comment because there is also valuable info in some of them.
Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
I agree he done it slower step by step .. still seems a lot of hassle
John H
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It was really nice to finally see the "how-to" with these locks. Thank you!
Hope it helped, 👍
Finally! I've been looking for a video to explain the locks!
Glad I could help!
Many thanks for this clearly explained video 🙂🇬🇧
Top marks Mr WDD for this good explanation of how locks work 👏👏❤️😀xx
Morrislouise Eagle Glad you enjoyed it👍
This was a great explanation for beginners like me! Thanks 😊👍
Willow Grove i still class myself as a beginner, I’m learning all the time👍
Extremely informative video delivered in a straight forward, non-patronising manner. Thank you. 💐💐
Thanks 👍
there are some added bits on some canal lock gates up in Yorkshire,you have gate and ground paddles on the top gates,all fine if filling a lock to do down but if your going up you only open the ground paddles first,then once the gate paddle openings are covered with water do you open them,or you can flood your boat,remember folks water is heavy ,and in double width locks you have to use a line or the boat gets thrown around when going up ,its a far more gentle process going down .
Good bit of info Alex We've done plenty on the GU with both ground, and gate paddles on and your advice is spot on. 👍
Ha, I love the way you said "You know who you are" then you said his name in the vid! A well explained vid. All the best on your voyages.
😂🤣 opps
Thankyou thankyou thankyou, im going to be a new boater soon and need all the help i can get. Fantastic lock lesson.
Glad to help
Thank you for kindly explaining the whole process. Much clearer now 😉👍
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for explaining the locks. I never quite understood how they worked either. I'm not sure that I would be brave enough to walk over those planks from one side to the other. They could be very slippery with moss and slime ect. Thanks again for the great explanation.
The walk ways on the locks have an anti slip coating, but care should still be taken. some also have a foot bridge across. and the more you do the more confident you become
0:30. The unnamed lifelong friend is MR PAUL MANNING 1:20 . You kept him a secret for less than 60 seconds!
Terribly at secret, it has its benefits thought, no tooth fairy or Santa 😂🤣
A great video! I was particularly amused by the fact that you went out of your way to protect the identity of your curious subscriber at both the beginning and end of the video, but then gave his name away in the middle! LOL!
sian farrell opps😂😂
Hi Mark, l haven`t got a boat , l am a walker who has so far walked about 600 miles of the network, I have obviously seen and watched the operation of the locks many times, But your video has explained to me HOW it all works , so your methodical explanation has finally stuck in my brain ! hoorah ........so if l ever become a boater in the future , l now have the fundamental way of how it should be done ...happy boating cheers Steeev
Glad to have helped the penny drop 👍
That was very helpful thanks as I wondered how it all works because we don’t have them here in Sydney Australia happy and safe boating cheers Barry
barry edwards thanks👍
Thanks for the clear explanation with a demonstration. Many more steps than I would have guessed!
Glad it was helpful!
Such an eye opener, can't thank you enough.
Glad it was helpful!
Doing my first ever canal boat holiday in a few weeks time and this was a realy helpful video, thank you !!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, my gf has hired a narrow boat for this weekend & this was one of our concerns. I've seen a few canal & waterway videos which were helpful too. Looking forward to the experience.
Glad it was helpful! Just take everything slowly and I'm sure you'll have fun❤️
Hi. Just to add we are only about 1/2 way through you videos so still have a lot to watch.xx
That was very informative.Thankyou.I think I understood.I guess actually doing it a few times,you would soon get the hang of it.Takes a far bit of work.,especially for people on their own.
Gloria Doidge It can be daunting for the newcomers, but like you say after a few times it becomes second nature,
Doing my first lock tomorrow heading to Uxbridge. For blacking wich me luck very helpful. Vid thanks
Have fun!
The concept of a lock is pretty simple. It was nice to see the mechanics of opening and closing the ground paddles to release water from the upper canal into the lock and fill it up to the same level as the upper canal. I liked that you explained that you cannot open the gate until the water level is the same inside the lock and upper canal because of the water pressure pushing on the gates to keep them closed.The gates and the angle that they are pointing are the key features that make a lock a lock. Video well dun mate!
Rich Bund Cheers 👍
Thanks for a very informative video.
cheers
Lovely, chilled explanation.
Thanks Ian
Great vid cheers guys👍
such a relaxed, laid-back style. just love it ... please release more vids
Thank you! Will do!
@@welldeckdiaries5610 Debs, how is your recovery going? You seem to be so "calm down and carry on "
Mark what a great support you've been.
Love you both 😃😃
Brilliant. Would so love to spend a few days on a boat.
Do what we done first, hire one for a weekend
Hi there from New Zealand. Great video. Well explained for beginners' good work.
Dave Hopkins thanks👍
We took this route on our 2nd & 3rd trip. Loved it.
Small world 😀
One of the best videos explaining locks
Thank you
@@welldeckdiaries5610 it would be great if you did a video on the etiquette on the canal between boats and explaining canal jargon.
Thank you very much, had some kind of idea, but now I understand it more, thanks again Mark and Debs, 👍👍👍⚓️🛥.
Our pleasure!
Very well explained. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent vid. Thankyou.
Thanks👍
Excellent explanation, thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thats really interesting thx for sharing it to your friend and us.
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice video, very clearly explained. Thanks!
Richard Newman Thank you
Very nice and explanatory vid. Many thanks.
your welcome
I knew a chap years ago who had a narrowboat which he crewed himself. To hold the boat in a lock he used a centre rope which he secured on a bollard in the lock centre. On one occassion he was going through a lock, when the lock had almost completed filling there was a surge forward (I guess from the levels equalising) the result being that the rope went very taught. Unfortunately for him a loop in the rope went round his finger as this happened and chopped the end off which went flying into the chamber!
Painfull 😳
Yes i do remember this one and you did it well, i think.
On a tablet, the settings must be adjusted so that RUclips notifications are accepted, so it is a two step process. You have probably already figured this out.
Loved the lock tutorial.
Thanks for the heads up on the 2 step process for tablets, 👍
Great explanation. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Bravo! Expertly done. Last time I was lucky enough to be on the cut (late 1970s), we didn’t have the luxury of cill markers or centre lines, though for the life of me I can’t think why the latter weren’t obvious! I believe the safety catch on the paddles is called a pawl, and it is important to keep hold of it when lowering the paddle (as you did), uncontrolled descent can damage the paddle itself and a flying windlass can damage anything it comes into with! And yes, I have the demerit of having trapped the rudder blade between uphill gates going down and the bow button under a cross member going up! I suppose the lesson is: keep your eyes open at all times when in a lock 👀
Cheers Dale, seems crazy, no cill markers and no centre line😱 and like you say you only have to take you're eye of the ball for a moment and disaster can strike
I was in a lock where the walkway was on the lock side of the lower gate, rather than the outside, and the tiller got caught under the walkway as we went up.
danensis we’ve had that happen too
This vid just happened to pop into my feed on the day of my CRT lock-keeping CAATS assessment! Your procedure looks pretty good to me. 👍👍
Thanks 👍
Very good video! Made it very clear.
St Rufus thanks 👍
Well done. Thank you for educating me.
My pleasure!
Again thanks for the vid and jts nice to know you are helping peeps to learn about the importance of cills and in what order to work padles as you know a narrow boat will go down in under 40 seconds .......
Thanks again 👍👍
Glad to help
.....that was fascinating and interesting.....enjoyed it "Captain" Mark!
thank you
It depends on your audience. Existing boaters would not get far if they could not do this and it only works if you do things in the correct order. For non boaters this would be too detailed. For boaters you could include more details such as not pushing gates with your boat, not leaving gates partially open and letting the incoming water slam them shut, not tieing your boat to a bollard when descending, how to leave the lock controls when the gates do not seal properly etc.
Very informative. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice and clearly explained
VERY informative video.Thank you
Glad you thought so 👍
Well done interesting vid. Best wishes.
Just found the channel and have subscribed. You have taught me something already, looking forward to watching your other videos, much credit to you Sir.
Welcome aboard!
Super useful mate. Thanks very much
Glad it helped
Awesome dood. Thanks for your time in explaining this. One thing i still struggle on is stepping locks. There so tricky.
Thanks and happy new year ❤️
Great vlog very interesting, I don’t remember too much about the locks from my brief week on the canals
Thanks 👍
a good lesson for all newbies live and learn.
Definitely
thanks from Texas
Our pleasure!
Thank you😀
You're welcome 😊
Very well explained.
Cheers Matey👍
I watched many vblogs of folks going through locks and it because if lock variations the process always seemed a little fuzzy. Thank you for clearly and slowly walking me through the process. The part I've missed in the past is checking for an in-coming boat. Who goes first seems to be based on water conservation, if the lock is full the down going boat goes first. If the lock is empty the up going boat goes first. Now what is the correct procedure if there are lines of boats going in both directions.
Alternate up-going and down-going to conserve water.
Thank you as I'm going on my first trip next week 👍
Glad it was helpful
Nice little beginner video, well done, very clear. I hope you won't be offended if I offer you a tip about your boat. Your bow fender is held down by two small chains. This is very neat, but it does mean that if the fender catches on something going down, it can lift the bow right out of the water. I had this happen to me on a very early canal holiday (Etruria Top Lock!) and over the years it has even been a cause of fatalities as the stern fills with water and sinks the boat.
Take those little chains off, so that if the fender catches as you go down, it just rides harmlessly over the stem post. Happy boating!
Im never offended, I'm always open to tips and advice, so thanks. I just assumed the V button was normally secure this way. There is a chain either side of the V button fender which secures to fixing points with small shackles. The chain on the top of the V button loops up over the T stud on the bow.
I know from experience that the small shackles I have on my bow and stern fenders do break if they get caught up. Got the Stern fender caught under paddle gear whilst filling a lock once.
Ive also been told to make sure at least one link in each chain is cut through (the weakest link) so that it will fail if caught on any thing.
Ill give it a go to make sure it all stays in place when I'm descending in a lock👍
@@welldeckdiaries5610 Weak chains (or strings) are indeed also a good way to go. Locking up or down, even the most experienced skipper can get caught out, as I know very well. Full focus and attention to good practice is vital, as I believe that you already know. Good luck!
Thanks guys 🇬🇧😎
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Hi, i didnt have a clue but i do now, that was a very good video thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
when I lived in England I spent many a day at Foxton locks helping single travelers, as ascending and descending a flight single handed is very time consuming and tiring.
Its a good way to keep fit 👍
excellent tutorial
Glad you likes it Chris👍
Good info x ❤️ dozy and Dim ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it
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Thanks for that, I watch a lot of narrowboat vlogs and am always puzzling over the locks, just about worked it out but didn't want to ask for fear of looking silly! Didn't know about the cull though😳, can't help worrying about that boat and if they got it out okay.😢
I meant to put cill not cull, sorry.
Sally Mander Its scary how quickly things can go wrong😱
Good one Mark Well explained
cheers
Nice informative vid for all the lock newbies out there. Worth mentioning never to tie off the centreline. Seen so many boats capsized like that. Such a shame to see the poor brickwork in the pound with water pouring through and such seepage around the gates. Some of our canal infrastructure is in very poor state and there is worse out there unfortunately.
Good tip there👍. Some of the brickwork in some locks looks like its going to fall in at any moment.
Great vid. Great attitude
Thanks ❤️
Cracking video totally get it straight forward ☺👍
Glad you liked it Charlie
The scariest part is crossing over the lock gates on that rather narrow and fragile looking walkway especially when the lock is empty
They can be quite slippery in the winter ❄️
Great job mate, from Perth Australia.
thanks 👍
Oh and you are doing these right!
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Excellent video 👍
Thank you Stuart
Awesome! I am a teacher in America, California to be specific. I'm trying to explain how the canals work during the Industrial Revolution. Your step by step helped explain this. Thanks!
That is awesome, glad to have been a help👍
@@welldeckdiaries5610 One of my students left saying, how cool that was. In Southern California, we just have a canal to bring water from the Colorado River, across the desert, and into our homes. So Cal industrialized after the saturation of the railroads in America and the invention of the car. So, canals were not needed. I did live in Washington, DC, awhile after college and spent a lot of time around the Baltimore and Ohio Canal. While they don't have it fully restored, especially the section that ran through Washington, DC, they did have some of it restored up the Potomac river. That was first time in my life I really was able to understand the canal system in America. As I got older, I realized that England had a very extensive canal system because they industrialized before the railroad. (In fact, I loved reading CS Forrester when Horatio Hornblower traveled on a canal.) All that to say, your video allowed my students to see something they would never be able to see. In fact, when asked, over half of them had never even heard of a lock or a canal...or a canal that transported products and goods.
Anyway, thanks a lot for your video. When I get on my personal RUclips account, I will be following your channel. It seems like a wonderful life to live on the canals. I plan on watching the first video to learn why and how you are able to do all this.
In the meantime, have a great day! Thanks again for the helpful informative video.
great explanation it cleared up a few queries I had... the only problem is I will forget it all by the time I get to try it :)
It took us a few locks before it eventually became second nature
Really nice video. Just one tip, and I apologise if someone else already picked this up, I don’t recommend leaving the lock key lying on the lock gate, where it could fall in the lock.
Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for explains that. I must admit I didn’t quite follow exactly how that worked before. 😁
Glad it helped
Thank you for the great video, always wondered what the lockside mounted mechanism was for?
Glad to have helped
I like even more the fact that in the intro you said you would not say his name and then proceed to introdu e him by name in the actual video! Very amusing! Nevertheless, I did enjoy the show. Thanks much.
😂🤣
good job
Thanks
Been doing this for years and a good video. One tip - on double locks like those on the K&A, if you are on your own there is no need to open both gates which can save a considerable amount of time, the boat will easily fit through one lock gate gap, although sometimes they do have a mind of their own of course!!
Thanks. Ha Ha those gate do have a mind of their own, they are more unpredictable than a supermarket trolley
Only need to open one gate on K&A, GU, L&L & most other 14 foot wide locks
That's a nasty looking culvert at 2:06 for anyone coming up the lock! Took my wife on the 4 counties ring last week, first time for her on the canals. Once I'd explained that the lock is simply a bath with two set of taps / plugholes it all clicked. Subscribed and liked!
Welcome onboard 👍
Thanks for that as clear as mud so I'm not the only dumb bugger lol
Cheers mate
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Good mate.
Thanks ❤️
Very informative, I am looking to get myself a narrowboat when I retire to live on, will be on my own, not sure how I would manage the locks on my own
Glad it was helpful!
I paused my sleep story to see how this works 😂
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very interesting Video thank you for sharing from Mark & Deb in Western Australia
Glad you enjoyed it you pair
@welldeckdiaries5610
May I use a few clips of your excellent explanation here to include in my video to show how a lock operates?
This is THE most informative video I’ve seen on lock operation. I am composing a video on RUclips for the 175th anniversary of Illinois & Michigan canal in the USA. I've video recorded all of the canal myself. However, the canal has had no operating locks since it closed 90 years ago. Thank you.
Help yourself 👍
Hi yes me too ,i only get a notification from you occasionally, i eed to go looking .why is there a sill ? when you can strick your boat , i don’t understand why there is a huge lump of concrete,
The cill is there to act as a continuation of the bottom of the canal on the upper section and for structural support for the gates
When I was much younger I spent a great deal of time along the river Lea, and in my time what you now refer to as gate paddles, we knew as sleuse gates, I am not saying who is correct just pointing it out as a point of interest.
Peter Crane As long as we know what they do that’s all that matters. When we was on the Thames they called them sluices and on the river Ouse they were called slackers👍
On the northern canals they're called cloughs (pronounced "clows" - like cows with an "L".