It amazes us that in wide river locks river cruisers often have loads of fender to protect them but none to protect our narrow boats. On the Avon we were just shutting the gates when a very high old cruiser - which had been moored with crew relaxing when we passed, came flying round a corner at near warp speed and dived into the lock. As far as we could see the crew had little interest in controlling the boat once in and it was well used for up at our window level a lot of the metal edging was dented and with the overhang just waiting to damage our cabin paint and sides. Before they damaged us we reversed out the lock - let them have it if they were (now) in such a rush. I have never noticed this overhang problem in narrow cruisers but this one was not a narrow cruiser. The last nasty scratch in the paint we did get to come out with T-cut - but only after a number of applications. Luckily in our case the panel affected was small so we could do the lot to maintain the same colour all over. But we have found with scratches that in sunlight at the right angle you can see every mark - even if they fixed to the point where you can't normally see them. Mind you we ain't Phil Speight.
--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Andrew Dyke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Andrew Dyke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [canals-list] Mega Scratch! To: "Canals List" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 2:33 PM Hi All, Last weekend LT had an unfortunate encounter with a cruiser which had a steel rim round the bow. You can imagine the rest. The scratch is about 5 foot long, right in the middle of the side panel and is very noticeable. It has not gone all the way through to the steel but is quite deep. TCUT has made some improvement but I wondered if anyone knows of another remedy. Thanks Regards, Andrew Web Site www.andrewdyke. co.uk Web Site www.mayorofevesham. co.uk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
