Boat Gets Stuck At Torksey Lock In Lincolnshire

Stuck on the sill. The boat has to much draft for the lock.

do you think he is still sitting there ?

The chap on the boat has eat too many pie`s !!!!!!!!!!

looks like the guy put the boat on reverse, notice the way the waters going

Get that guy out of the boat and it will rise 5 inches. :-)

I was thinking the same thing. Or put capt. fat butt on the bow to try and raise the boat off it's keel.

What MAY have worked is leaving the bottom lock gates open (no choice there) and slowly letting water through from the top sluices. The additional water passing over the sill with the stuck boat may have raised & moved it.

Stuck on the sill. My dad was lockeeper at Weststockwith lock which is the next lock down river on the Trent from Torksey. I can remember rare incidents like this happening. Very exiting drama as a kid, highly embarresing for the boater though.

Jettison the fat guy and your home free.

The boat was stuck on the sill shelf just to confirm your suspicions. I have seen this happen many a times along the canals in England. One of the prime reason is that water levels can get very low for a number of reasons including increasing levels of traffic therefore more water is used, and more simply there has been no rain to fill the rivers and canals fully. Hope this helps.

Take the fuckin hand brake off !

was her draft too low for the sill ?…

@wrecker8888 Thanks for your answer, I was close then lol. I am from Terneuzen, The Netherlands and we have three big locks here, in these locks are also wat we call "dorpels" (that is the Dutch word for thresholds,), it's why I thought of that being the cause of that boat stuck. Plus that my father has been a lock keeper for years at the Terneuzen locks.

What happened here? I see a lot of wake from the propeller, but it looks like it ran aground? I don't see any fortgotten lines, all I can think of is that there is threshold in the lock and the keel (if it has one) got stuck on it