The landing stage to the right.

There is no tow path between lock 85 and this lock. The lock operators in the crew must be dropped off at the landing stage shown on the right. There does not appear to be a road route to this lock either. Normally, this is probably not too tricky, but on this day, the winds were blowing a howling gale. This made the landing very tricky. The problem we had here was that the boat was blown towards the wall to the right of the bridge. It was extremely difficult to get the boat back in line with the lock. It required help from another crew member, and a pole from the front. Beware anyone tackling these 9 locks, they are reputed to be the nine most difficult locks in the country. I concur with that, and we have said we would not think about tackling them with less that four people. Fortunately on this occasion, we did have four.

Photograph taken by Chris Jones on 9 May 2013 and was added to the database on Saturday the 7th of September, 2013

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