On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:03:10 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > 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.
Of course it is. And I don't have any. Silly me - you'd have thought over the years I might have acquired some, but it seems not. > > >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. -- 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
