--- In [email protected], David Cragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our local Shropshire Star has a fishing column and some of the things said imply that many fishermen feel boats are definitely a no no where they fish. One of the regular match areas is from B55 on the Shroppie and the favourite pegs are 'by the boats'. I must admit to enjoying one report where the local champ got the ideal peg of those by the boats but had his fishing ruined as a boat was 'running his engine and causing wash'. The chap writing the column thought boats should not be occupied when a match was on - let alone running the engines. I was cheering for the engine man. > > Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Atty wrote: > > 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? > > Engine manufacturers have a case to answer here but I also wish BW would > make more of an issue of running engines in gear on a mooring. Maybe > mooring fees should go up to cover the extra cost of bank repairs and > dredging ;-) > > Steve > NB Bream >
As a non boatowner I am perplexed ! Is "neutral" not a more or less a universal feature of boat engines these days. Why is it therefore necessary to run ones engine in gear to extract non propulsion power from it ? Regards Pete www.thecanalshop.com
