Shane had his own windlass issue today too. At one lock, while Heather was trying to deal with the recycling and catch us up, he was hurrying to do the lock alone and his windlass slipped off the gate arm and off the platform. When Heather arrived, she passed me the bin and hurried to start winding the other end but he had to tell her to stop as he couldn’t wind down his end as he’d dropped the windlass. Not again! This time it was fortunately not in the lock but in the bushes. He asked me to swing the boat across the lock so he could get to the boathook, while the lock was filling. He managed to retrieve the windlass and then found I wasn’t so near the side. He used the boathook again, but this time to pull the boat over where he could reach it and put the boathook back in its rightful spot – not sure what the family watching and videoing made of that but they seemed to enjoy the spectacle of boating shenanigans and shouted “well done!” as I exited the lock.