Hotel barges
We do not like Hotel barges very much, having previously been sucked off the bank by one, mangling a nice long and new mooring line plus damaging the bearing on our drive shaft (to be fixed in Migenne). They are typically 145ft (38.5M) long and a few centimetres narrower than 5metres. Locks are 38.5x5M and they only jusst fit. They are so wide that they cannot have fenders. They just keep repainting the scratches on the sides. Buth the real problem is if you meet one coming around a bend because they take the whole canal. Stopping or turning our own 36tonnes is a slow process and even more for the hotels so it can be dangerous.
