----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Millin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:30 PM Subject: [canals-list] Mooring, was Re: Experience with new boaters
Ann wrote: > I wonder if it would help if we stopped mooring our boats at all and just > stopped them in mid channel and either used a floating gangplank or jumped > to the bank. > If we all did this, there would be absolutely no risk of any damage to the > canal bank (natural or otherwise), and I bet it would stop other boaters > speeding past :-) > > Ann, just trying to be helpful :-). I think, Ann, that you're getting mixed up with the magnetic mooring device that seemed so promising, and was featured (IIRC) in April 2007's edition of Waterways World. With the correctly adjusted magnetic field you could choose just how hard you wanted to be kept in to the side or not. I'm no expert but perhaps if the field were reversed suddenly you could shoot the boat out sideways just like a super side-thruster when you were ready to set off. Just a thought and trying to be equally as helpful of course. ;-))) Roger Is this the same magnet which seems to attract certain boats to Tesco? Ann
