"Enodreven at Yahoo" said...#
The point you made at the end of your email is quiet important as it does seem to be the privatly owned boats that appear to cause the most problems or that is what I have found, very rarely do they give way at bridge holes or slow down passing moored boats and they really don't have any excuse ? or do they ?. where the hire boats at least have that in their favour ? My experience exactly Case in point - Moored (fortunately on rings, pins would DEFINITELY have come out) at Platt lane on the Llangollen the week before last. It's getting dark, loud boat hammers past, my boat lists alarmingly as they suck water out from under me. My head pops out of the slide and the following exchange ensued Me: "Oi! Didn't the palace that hired that to you tell you about slowing down past moored boats" Him (Mild outrage) "It's not a hire boat!!!" Me "Well you should b****y well know better then!" Him (sound of closing throttle) I'm involved in drafting some crew training for the Boat museum society. One of the sessions is entitled "Manners makyth (Boat)Man" and covers all this stuff in great detail. The hammer down brigade don't actually get anywhere fast, they're often totally inefficient at locks. And don't get me started on the folks that poddle along at 1 MPH, gathering a long queue behind them and never looking back, even when the chorus of boats going in and out of gear (and sometimes going astern) to slow down behind them becomes audible over their engine... Going TOO slowly is as dangerous as going too fast, if you lose steerage it's sideways into the nearest plastic cruiser in the inevitable cross-wind Ray Butler Nb Owl - Not in a hurry, but feeling a deep need to boat politely but purposefully. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
