Dock, Coburg Dock and finally into Brunswick Dock. We got down to Brunswick Lock for 10.20am and then sat there and waited and waited! Apparently one of the sea gates was blocked and wouldn’t close properly. Also we discovered that we had to pay to go through the lock – again no-one had told us this! Fortunately I was able to do this over the phone! We sat bobbing about in the lock entrance for 45 minutes but then tied up against a large steel catamaran used for wind turbine maintenance. As we tied up alongside people suddenly appeared on deck! They were very nice about it – thank goodness!We had a VHF radio onboard but it didn’t have the lock channel on it so Ian kept updating me via mobile phone! Eventually at 11.50am the lock gates opened and we were able to go in. The lock is huge and we shared it with another wind turbine maintenance catamaran and a l
I've just received the following photos from Ian and Diana who took them from the top of the lock. If you look carefully at the last one you can see a small speck in the middle of the river - that's us!!! Thank you Ian and Diana they are great mementos :-)
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