Panama Canal Pics
Karacool
Stephen Bassett
Mon 27 Feb 2012 16:33
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Here are some more pictures of Panama
Canal.
 You can see the line (120 ft long) going to the
line-handler on top of the lock wall. The boats on the outside of the raft then
have to control the lines as the water level rises. And to attach the lines, the
line-handlers throw a light string line down to the boat and we have to
a. catch it,
b. attach it to the heavy lines with a good
knot,
c. get the heavy line back up to the top of the
lock where it is looped over a bollard.
And all this in 1 or 2 minutes.
 The thick rope is over the bollard and the line
handler has his thin line with a Monkey fist attached. He will walk with the
line as the raft of boats move through into the next lock chamber under their
own stem. The the lines are re-attached as the water level changes
again.
 Here is Vibeke on Camelot taking lots and lots of
pictures. And Oscar, her son is keeping an eye on all the action.
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