2008/11/21 Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Steve Haywood" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Narrowboating - single-handed or otherwise - > >isn't 'dangerous' in any way commonly understood by the use of that word. > > Too bad Nick Grazebrook didn't know that. > > During the year I started boating (I was 18), I fell off a narrow boat > coming in to moor. I hit my head on the coping, knocking myself out, > and then went under the boat. I came to to find I was being pumped > out on the towpath, the two other adults on the boat having seen me > fall and pulled me out. The first part of this trick is easy when > single-handed -- the second is rather less so.
I say it again: narrowboating - single handed or otherwise - isn't 'dangerous' in any way commonly understood by the use of that word. I may have had a dreadful experience going down the step to the yard, or know someone that killed himself doing it. But that's no argument for saying that going out to the yard is intrinsically dangerous. For someone who prides himself on rational argument you can be stunningly irrational sometimes Adrian. Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
