“The customers can either board the boats inside the chamber, or where the boat emerges from it. You could keep the boats on the racks or you could keep one ‘up the spout’, on the slipway to make launching faster. You can seal the slipway with a metal sheet that can be raised or lowered using a chain and a pulley from inside and it can be secured with bolts on the inside.
“The ticket desk can be the entrance to the boat chamber.” He pushed his drawing over to Lek and Ayr so that they could take a better look at it.
“Looks great, Ross,” opined Lek, “but snakes can come in up the chute and into the boathouse. Maybe not nice for the man working there. Can you prevent that?”
Ross took a swig of beer. “Yes, if we cut a slice out of the chute, we can drop the shutter down through that and co
