You adjust your speed - and this includes passing speed - to the conditions.
Passing moored boats - if a boat is running in gear you notice the cross
flow and set up for it. Loose ropes you expect and set up for too. As for the
slow down shouts I have had none shouting at us this year when we pass - even
if we are going at above tick over to counter the cross winds. So it can be
done. In fact with some boats which pass us when we are moored we actually
shout that it's safer to go a bit faster as with a real crabbing wind they can
be blown sideways (into other boats) if they go too slow.
With a canal boat in a cross wind the idea is to keep pointing slightly into
the wind while travelling on the windy side of the canal - once it blows you
across too near the other bank (or moored boats) then you can get into trouble.
This answer is very generalised - it would need a chapter or more to give a
fuller explanation still, as with most of boating it's just common sense really.
Nick Atty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
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