GL: Tenn-Tom ProceduresLocking

[John & Judy Gill]

AMEN and Great Advise!  That is the way we do it also on Floating  
Bollards, Cables hanging from the top of the lock walls or Fixed  
Bollards.  The rule is never tie the lines (except):

There are only four locks, that we know of (or can remember), on the  
Great Loop where the lines should be cleated -- The Peterborough and  
Kirkfield Lift Locks;  the Marine Railway at Big Chute on the Trent- 
Severn Waterway; and the Carillon Lock on the Ottawa River which has  
a floating dock inside the lock.  In each of these cases, the boat  
should be made secure, because it is not subject to changes in the  
water level in the Lock.

John and Judy Gill
Two J's V
AGLCA Loopers

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On Mar 18, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Bill Cook wrote: (SNIP)
>
> I strongly advise against cleating the line back to the cleat. we  
> made that
> mistake once and it was the time that the bollard hung up.  By the  
> time we
> got the line cut we were within inches of being sunk, and did $6000.00
> damage.  Cleat one end go around the Bollard bring the line back  
> onboard and
> hold on to it. and have a good sharp knife within reach.