Some years ago I had the response a chap gave to me and what happened next
published in a magazine as it was a real one off. In this case he approached at
speed and I (on 4 pins in a nice area with no armco for miles) asked him to
slow. The steerer informed me that his engine would cut out and he would loose
steerage if he slowed so slowing was impossible...
...Then he saw a lock a few hundred yards in front and achieved the
impossible by reducing engine speed and steering his boat smoothly into the
lock mooring.
Nowadays it's amazing how many scream past and moor up in sight of us. And so
many pass a speed now that we don't use pins. (Except at one place where it's
pins or nothing and we check them regularly - knocking them back in every third
boat or so.) And we don't bother to yell at all - except in really extreme
cases.
Captain Beeky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 31 Mar 2008, at 08:56, Steve Wood wrote:
> John wrote:
>
>> Common courtesy says, Slow Down When Passing Moored Boats ...... I
>> often wonder what part of SLOW and DOWN it is, that people do not
>> understand!!
>
> I was starting to wonder that myself, having read comments on here. I
> have pretty much given up on mooring anywhere on the narrow canals
> with
> pins as even with four correctly set 2ft pins I would expect my boat
> to
> be in the middle of the cut within a couple of hours. Its piling irons
> or long days for me.
>
> Equally I'm very aware that my heavy deep-drafted boat is capable of
> doing the same to other craft on narrow canals so I crawl past at
> tickover. I really do not see why anyone has a problem with doing
> this.
We grumpy old men will just have to get used to it. By the way that
definitely includes Mr Millin. \
Probably also Steve Haywood. He'd be having a good rant on the topic
if he hadn't been driven to distraction by some of the attitudes
expressed here, from a very small minority of contributor I hasten to
add.
Beeky
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