John and Ann wrote: > Now if you really want a case of speeding take a look at:-
<controversial mode on> Not that I condon this...but...they are young and having fun on the waterways. Only a handful of youngsters now do this. If they are caught and punished, instead of being "educated" and encouraged then they will be turned away from being potential boaters of the future, probably turning against boaters and other waterway users. I rember some of our early 1970's hireboat holidays and behaving, by what some people at the time would have been called outrageous. I know a lot of present day (now upper middle aged) boaters that would admit to that. As "British Waterways" is now the most expensive (and soon to be most regulated???) place to boat in Europe, it is refreshing to see that there are quite a lot of younger boaters in Ireland, encouraged by the the more liberal regime and considerably cheaper cost of boating. <controversial mode off> -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest - Shannon Reg 7410
