After serious thinking Captain Beeky wrote : > On 10 Jan 2010, at 14:22, Andrew Dyke wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> A recent letter in a magazine we get monthly makes reference to the >> 'steering from the cant'. Which bit of the boat is the cant? > > Just for starters . . . I thought the "cants" were the upstanding > bits around the counter, and quite possibly the same kind of things > along the upper surfaces of the bow as it tapers to the stem. > > Perhaps the letter writer inferred steering from the counter (often > deemed a bad thing), rather from in the hatch, a definite good thing. > Been a long thread about this on the Canal World Forum. Thats about the long and the short of it
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