You also may want to fender each side. There are a few places where you have to change sides per the lockmaster's instructions. Plus you never know where you may end tying up so we just kept them on both sides when we did the Erie, Champlain, Trent, Rideau, etc.
Also IF you have a dinghy on davits as we carry ours, I found a couple of spare seat floatation cushions and used one to protect the bow of the dinghy for those occasions where the bow floated out, and one for over the side f the dinghy that was aft to protect from the boats behind me. Yes they put you in that tight often in the Canadian locks.
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Jay Leonard
Ex boats: 1983 40 Albin trunk cabin, 1978 Mainship 34 Model 1
New Port Richey, Fl
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