Never saw the name but it had a number and came from beyond Shardlow. Actually
most of the crews from Sawley are OK - it's just the odd panama expert. (And,
of course they do hire boats out now.)
However on the subject of general etiquette I would normally say in a
contest of who is the more superior and bolshy from our observations we would
place hirers bottom, privates top. But share boaters - especially those on the
more new and fancy boats - are moving up fast on the privates.
Ann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: "Will Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:45 PM
Subject: [canals-list] Re: Canal Etiquette
> David Cragg wrote:
>
>>
>> - Trying to tell MY husband what to do is stupid. He was in the
>> (merchant?) navy for
> > 10 years and has been through the Panama canal many times. He
> says this is a doddle
>> compared to the work he did to get through them!
>>
>
> I've met them! Her husband was the one that I described in a
> previous post - I was single-handed and alone in Braunston bottom
> lock and he (and she) opened the paddles wide open whilst I was
> climbing up the ladder!
>
> She said the same thing to me when I complained once I got to
> the top of the ladder.
>
> I took note of their boat's name but it is lost in the cobwebs of
> my ageing memory.
>
> Cheers
> --
It's a pity you can't remember the name of the boat - or which scheme it was
with. It is incidents like this which get all shared boat owners a bad name.
A bit like hirers. A bad expereince with one tends to colour your judgment
of all hirers.
Ann
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