[canals-list] Re: Experience with new boaters

[jhar1945]

> 
> Yes, but only if you have at least two long ropes, which hire craft
> cannot be depended to be equipped with.
> 
Memories of a hireboat I collected once with a less than 6' sternrope - 
on the second day I found the rest of it and no prizes for guessing 
where. As that boatyard evidently doesn't even check the weedhatch on 
turnround I've never been back!
John