Our plan was to turn into the side arm off the Lancaster canal, the Glasson branch, which is not open to hire boats as it is the only part with locks and insurance is cheaper if no locks are being worked. This means this is a particularly little used arm. Heather was keen to do the locks rather than drive through them and I demonstrated the new windlass and its features. As Shane turned into the junction, I got off to work the lock and a lady came over to say that there was a boat coming in from the other side, coming up (and the lock was set their way so they would come up first, even though he wasn’t quite at the lock yet) and that we would need to make room for him to come out. I got out to help her with the lock and assured them that Shane would keep well to one side. It was a double lock so there was room to pass. In the end they asked me to hold their rope and so they could hold their boat to the side and waited for Shane to come right in to the lock, before leaving. This gave them more space to turn on exit, at the junction. I’m not sure if I’ve seen two boats in a lock facing opposite directions before.