Fuzzy and the Locks

Fuzzy went through a lot of locks with Papa and Nana. He hadn’t known what a lock was, but he sure found out.

Locks are made to raise and lower boats from one level of water to another. A lock is like a big long room that has a door on each end. The water is added to the room or emptied from the room through holes in the walls of the room or the doors at the end. It’s sort of like how a bathtub works. You add water from the faucet and the water gets higher. You let water out through the drain and the water goes away.

If you are going from a lower level of water to a higher level of water Fuzzy found that you drive the boat into the room through one open door. The door closes and water from the other side (the high side) is let in the room. The boat keeps floating as the water keeps coming in and pretty soon the boat is as high as the water on the other side. Then the door opens and the boat leaves. It is pretty neat!