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Canary42 | 17:20 Wed 18th Jul 2018 | How it Works
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Can somebody explain to me how you can get through a canal lock without closing one set of paddles before exit (the upper set if locking down, the lower set if locking up).

Opening both must surely be a malicious act.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-44869566
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However, if Boaty did happen do this, he would drain the Severn dry.....tidal bore or not.
18:33 Wed 18th Jul 2018
Waterboatman will know the answer to this.
I would have thought that if it was such an easy mistake to make then it would have been done before.

Not sure why the Trust would say it was not malicious if it was Canary.

Enter Lock, close gates behind you but you forget paddles and leave them open.
Now go to gates in front of you, open the paddles and you now have a free-flow of water from highest to lowest, 'easy' mistake to make.
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But you can't get out Baldric because the level will never change.
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/// Not sure why the Trust would say it was not malicious if it was Canary.///

That puzzled me too.

I didn't say you could/couldn't get out, just suggested how it could've happened.
it has been done before in other places but not often.....you would have to be on your own, so no one to notice and stop you. and, as they said, in a hurry.....but I bet whoever did it won't do it again.
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Giving it some more thought, you could fail to close one paddle in the entry gates completely if "in a hurry" but the flow from the exit gate paddles would be sufficiently larger to change the levels. I guess that's what happened.
Yes, perhaps do it once on one lock, but leaving all of them open?

I suspect a bit of dementia involved.
Hopkirk it was only one section so possibly only one lock

/// A boater accidentally drained a stretch of the Kennet and Avon Canal after leaving all the lock gates open ///
Over to Boaty to explain what he has been up to - has he been out there today?
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///Hopkirk it was only one section so possibly only one lock///

Certainly not the Caen flight - totally derelict when I lived in the area in the 70s -- now beautifully restored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caen_Hill_Locks
However, if Boaty did happen do this, he would drain the Severn dry.....tidal bore or not.

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