jhar1945 expressed precisely :
>
>> The report of a transit I read indicated that the owner could steer
>> better than the BW chap and they ended up with the owner steering and
>> the BW chap navigating.
>>
> To be fair insert the words ''steer his own boat' better than the BW
> chap' which is hardly surprising. The report also said that the
> particular boat was almost unsteerable at the speed at which BW
> required it to travel. A small increase in speed (agreed in conjunction
> with the BW chap solved this.I think it must be acknowledged that the
> BW 'chap', namely Fred Carter, who has now done over 1000 tunnel
> transits knows the tunnel better than anyone.
My posting was not meant to be a slight against Fred who not only has a
vast experience of the tunnel but also a boater of many years. I
wouldn't want to get on a strange boat and drive it through the tunnel
never having steered it before.
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