On Friday, August 20, 2010 4:24 AM [GMT+1=CET], Coleman <[email protected]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: > Friends just returned from a holiday including a week on the South > Oxford. They had a great time, but I was surprised that the hire > companies still aren't doing a decent tuition. They told me there > was no film or briefing on lock handling, and that someone from the > yard just rode with them to the first lock - which was on the Thames > and manned, so they didn't do anything. When they were through it, > he grabbed his bike from the boat and left telling them "You're > good". So of course they then get to their first solo lock and > wonder why it is taking forever to fill - and finally realized that > you don't lift all the paddles at once! I know there are only a few > locks on this stretch, but some instruction would sure help. It > looks like they will never learn - or don't care.
When I've been on hire boats in the past, the conversation has gone something like this: Boatyard Bloke: Have any of you done this before? J Random Crewmember: Yes. Boatyard Bloke: Well, you know how it's done then. (Exit Boatyard Bloke, no doubt pubwards) I cannot comment on what BB's reaction would have been if we'd all said "no"... -- Dave Larrington <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk> Do not top-post like a Cretinous Foul-Yob fit only for Stoning.
