I can certainly see why you would be scared ****less, but then, you're to much of a
coward to even admit your name.

Obviously, the mast would have to be lowered, and that by itself would be to much work
for the benefit. But this is no more tricky or dangerous than a dozen other places
I've been. The locks are 41 by 250 feet, not that different from others I've been in.
And while it might be tricky with the tide running through, I regularly transit the
Blynman Canal (in Gloucester) which is considerably narrower and just as strong.



"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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jeffies, haul out a chart and LOOK at what you are proposing. kriste almighty!

From: "Jeff Morris"
Date: 10/16/2004 12:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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jeffies, you have never seen the Shinnecock/Suez Canal, not even from the
highway. so, how come you keep insisting that neither the United States
Coast
Guard, nor the United States Army Corps of Engineers is wrong?

Nope, I've never been through. I'm just quoting what the Coast Pilot says.
There
are a number of sites that refer to the locks.

And I'm not saying the CG or Army Corps are wrong; I'm saying you're lying
about what
they say.



btw, jeffies, what is the chance *you* think *you* could move your training
wheels through that canal and out through the bay on the ocean side? tell
us
about just how you and your wife are going to pull down your mast on one
end of
the canal and put it up on the other, and then just how you are going to
navigate the channel out through Hampton Bay (without calling SeaTow
several
times), then make it past the entrance (which side does one favor, today?)
and
then through the wind against the current, then on to (what if totally
frightening to you) the open ocean?

What's the problem? You must realize that my boat was built in Toronto and I
brought
her down through the Erie Canal. And I've boated all my life near the locks
on the
Charles River, their operation is no great mystery.

Sorry Jax, you can't bluff your way through this; its clear you've never been
there,
and probably have never seen a lock in operation.