Here's a laugh!

[pheran]

Re: Here\'s a laugh!

You'll find that most of the people that have an interest in this matter have already posted and all I was doing was saving repetition. If you want to catch up you need to be prepared to put just a little bit of effort into it. Use the search facility. Or ask a new question of course.

 

[Guest]

Re: Here\'s a laugh!

I have asked a question, but it seems that no-one is a minds to answer, not surprising really.

 

[pheran]

Re: Here\'s a laugh!

Boatone has more patience than I have. See his post above. But I suspect you are on the stir!

 

[byron]

Re: Here\'s a laugh!

Unfortunately it is the 'liveaboards' who mainly give Narrowboaters a bad name. However even leisure Narrowboating people can also add to the bad reputation. This usually an unconcious thing probably down to ignorance of common marine rules. Examples: Coming upstream through a bridge as craft are coming down with the stream, Jumping queues at Locks, hogging moorings and refusing to double bank, taking over short term moorings for days on end (look at Tescos as Reading), mooring the wrong way around, travelling the wrong side of the river, taking the centre fairway and forcing deeper draught vessels into shallows, coming along side other craft in Locks without adequate fendering and on one famous occasion lifting a boats fenders to squeeze in and lay alongside. The list is too long and boring for me to further enumerate.

 

[Guest]

Re: Here\'s a laugh!

Hmmmmmm, I have to say that I agree that you certainly seem to have problems with some of them? Maybe it's a case of a bit of edumacation?

Maybe some of the problems you have outlined come about through a lack of knowledge? I wonder how many of the narrowboats that some of you have a problem with, are on hire? therefore manned by people that just don't know any better. Yes it's true. ignorance is really no excuse, but the hire companies could do a lot more in that direction I think, instead of just giving folks a quick spin to make sure that they can steer and stop the boat.

If you have a representative body, could you not ask them to begin working with whoever represents canal and narrow boaters and maybe British Waterways, or whatever they are called these days, to try and get a bit more co-operation?

Maybe you have tried all that? I don't know, but taking the piss, and slagging off people will get you nowhere, because it is you folks that come across as ignorant and beligerent.

Thank you for taking the time to explain where you are coming from, to the person that suggested I was stiring, I can assure you that I am not, but your thread came across to me as very offensive, and smacked of intolerance and snobbery. Maybe you can see that maybe you can't, but posts of that sort wont win you any friends, or do much to aid your cause.

Regards to you all, Charlie.

 

[pheran]

Re: Here\'s a laugh!

Whatever...........!

 

[byron]

Re: Here\'s a laugh!

It isn't the hire boats indeed they are often the nicest people. As far as asking Envag to deal with matters like overstays, no way, they are for the easy life. Educating them? Hardly! you likely to be met with a torrent of abuse.