Arzal Lock

I thought it would be fun to post a couple of videos of me single handing into the Arzal lock on the Villaine.

The lock is renowned as a busy throughway between the ports of Arzal / Camoel, Roche Bernard on the Vilaine River and the sea and at certain times it is crammed. Particularly busy times are last lock in and first lock out in the morning. Of course nearly everyone wants to proceed out of the river around high tide.

The lock keeper keeps his cool and manages normally to coordinate everyone, particularly those "diagonal entrants" to the lock with good humour.

Here are two videos to give a little flavour to the joi d'vivre.