Écluse de Clairac

Pontoon below the écluse for crew drop-off. This 3m écluse is one of the trickiest we’ve encountered. Crew has to be ‘up top’ to insert the card, but there is only a short section of lock-side for them to use and no convenient bollard to take advantage of for their bow line. The rest of the lock becomes unavailable when the lock gates open (for you to enter) and because elsewhere the ancient mill building comes right up to the lock edge. Beyond that there is no way to exit the lock-side and walk around the mill, other than by ignoring ‘keep off’ signs and climbing over sluice gate machinery and fences. Which is what we ended up doing. And then the water enters the écluse very strongly indeed at first. There are hanging ropes, but quite how one is supposed to use them, we know not – they are not fixed at the bottom, so one can neither loop a securing line around them nor easily use them around one’s own cleats and bitts. The channel beyond the écluse leads to Clairac bridge, go through and turn back through the central span into the River Lot above the barrage

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