sean neill wrote: > > 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 > > My son and a group of friends hired from Clifton at Rugby and managed > to destroy a rope somehow. He went into a chandlers and got a new one > - Clifton were so surprised that they offered him a discount and an > upgrade if he hired from then again!! > > I do two things when mooring up - firstly double or triple the mooring > rope (i.e. from boat to bank, back to the boat and back to the bank > again) before pulling it tight - the purchase gives extra oomph.
Never, never go on the River Stort. You will sink the boat.... e.g pound from Tednambury to Spellbrook - can *easily* rise 10-12 inches in 1 hour (seen it!) Ron Jones Process Safety & Development Specialist Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near misses at http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert Einstein
