On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:32:21 -0800 (PST), David Cragg wrote: > Not if you are careful. Of course some don't anticipate and are not, while > others don't realise that cross winds means moored boat owner should allow > for you going a bit quicker so you keep control and miss them. Still all that > assumes a level of live and let live that some contact sport types don't seem > to grasp as they get 'em ahead.
What sort of anticipation copes with the row of moored boats on loose strings, a strong wind, every 10th boat or so running the engine flat out to charge their batteries with the tiller tied sideways so there is a jet of water across the cut, and every third boat crewed by the sort of sanctimonious twazzock who shouts "slow down" if you aren't in actual tick-over? Apart from giving up boating of course. Something that gets more attractive to me every day. -- On-line canal route planner: http://www.canalplan.org.uk (Waterways World site of the month, April 2001) My Reply-To address *is* valid, though likely to die soon
