tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post6631460708056591192..comments2024-02-14T20:17:15.115+00:00Comments on Chertsey: Anger managementSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01759448161130667128noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-43710470338571312922013-08-09T17:07:34.309+01:002013-08-09T17:07:34.309+01:00You did not say what we met coming the other way -...You did not say what we met coming the other way - Nuneaton and Brighton loaded with Brighton on a long line. I bet that put a smile on his face :)<br /><br />Joldmonstyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17080055247643966194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-83327217036922607982013-08-06T22:24:28.094+01:002013-08-06T22:24:28.094+01:00We have an online mooring and agree we have a resp...We have an online mooring and agree we have a responsibility to make sure we are moored correctly. i don't mind a bit of boat movement, as we are close to a lock we get washes that move the boat. We also understand the different impacts we get from old working boats as well as cruisers, plus all between. What does pee me off is those who charge up to the lock, sometimes behind another boat and then drop to tickover as they approach the landing then great gobs of reverse to trim off all the speed. Having said that I have never as yet challenged a fast boat, like children and animals ignoring them gives me all the redress I want.<br /><br />I go to the cut to relax, too many bring their 'day job' to the canals and a worse place it is for it !Nev Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07047359519459723079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-5190876111946057312013-08-06T20:30:47.587+01:002013-08-06T20:30:47.587+01:00But Chertsey unladen hardly moves any water, certa...But Chertsey unladen hardly moves any water, certainly less than many a modern boat.<br />I am generally of the view that if you tie up online then you must expect the boat to move, and store crockery etc accordingly. People would save themselves so much stress if they could just come to terms with that. If you don't want it to move, get it craned onto the bank.<br />BUT on this occasion we were going very slowly and the moored boats weren't moving, and the bloke in question was looking for it before he could have felt anything.<br /><br />Sarah, but anon is easier on the iPad<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-27826605602186344732013-08-06T19:09:16.489+01:002013-08-06T19:09:16.489+01:00What people don't realise is that older, heavy...What people don't realise is that older, heavy draughted and - especially - loaded boats move a LOT of water even at low speed. An awful lot of people tie on stupidly slack lines, don't use springs or triangular moorings, and (sometimes fatally for their crockery) use their roof-mounted centre lines to moor, which of course makes the boat heel alarmingly as water is sucked out from under it by passing boats.<br /><br />Perhaps there's an information campaign along the lines of "Tie up properly - here's why and how" to be hatched?Ray Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13237153562125393459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-35492575744312042522013-08-06T14:13:58.246+01:002013-08-06T14:13:58.246+01:00Hi
In one of his books, David Blagrove recounts J...Hi<br /><br />In one of his books, David Blagrove recounts Joe Skinner making up with another boater after a contretemps with the words "Ah, that's all right, all of us gets cross sometimes."<br /><br />Funny how some days I can lest things like that go by without a murmur and at others it really gets through to me…<br /><br />All the best<br /><br />BruceBruce in Sanityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09002339611763779269noreply@blogger.com