This is Lorna getting a rope ashore and stopping the boat as we enter a lock. We don't jump ashore with ropes or double them around shore bollards.

Lorna picks her bollard and tells me to slow down.

She bends part of the spliced rope eye back on itself to open it up and gets some slack ready in her left hand.

Then a nice throw of the loop, up and over the shore bollard.

Lorna uses the slack to lead the rope under the horns of our forward bollard.

Then 2 turns around the next bollard aft and uses the friction to stop the boat as we are still slowly going forward, she can choose where to stop the barge. It is important to keep fingers, feet, ankles or any other body part clear of any loops that could tighten up and squeeze you or injury you. She makes up the rope onto the top of the bollard so she can return to the wheelhouse and take shelter from the blistering sun. She judges the stated rise of the lock so that the rope is long enough to not snag or go tight and short enough to keep us back

from the lock gates as we rise. It is my job to keep enough engine revs on to push against the inward rushing water from the gate and to steer the back of the boat in against the left lock wall.