Slow Down! --- but I am only doing 4 knots!

[Sneds]

Flowerpots...…...………………….. and watering cans!

 

[alandalus11]

I've had this.
While travelling along a narrow river (upper Medway) at about 3.5 knots a rather irate canoeist started shouting 'oi.....5 knots!!' I had been going slow because there were canoeists coming on in front of me and i had a GPS speedo and my boat does not give out any wash even at 5 knots..

Now i know that this guy has no idea what 5 knots looks like especially as he was travelling toward me in his canoe.

Did you do an about turn and pass him at 5 knots, after all that's what he was asking you to do.

 

[James_Calvert]

No current against you?

 

[Newbroom]

I moved moorings recently from Hammersmith just above the bridge to a nice spot in Windsor between the Racecourse and Windsor Marina. The wash situation couldn't be more different. At Hammersmith, we frequently got weekend cruisers bound for le contenent rushing to beat the tide for headroom under the bridge, and wash so extraordinary that I once saw the cat tossed out of her box and into my hat. In Windsor of course things are much more sedate, a year now and not enough wash to roll the pencil across the chart table.

Richard

Though one of your neighbours is out most weekends in the summer shouting at boats about wash regardless of how slow they are travelling.

 

[oldviking]

I post this here as usually its the Oil burner who gets shouted at to slow down!

Picture the Scene, We are a 37 foot Prout Catamaran, de-masted and going through the French Canals heading home after a fun trip in the Med.

We are ambling along through the very pretty town of Montargis at 3.5 knots or 6kph which is the speed limit. We are only making enough wash to to maybe wake a sleeping duck when we pass an English Barge which must be about 70 foot and 40 tonne when this irate chap jumps out from his cabin and shouts at us to slow down.

When I asked him why he said that I was creating too mush wash! When I asked him what my miniscule wash was going to do to his 40 tonne barge he disappeared back inside. Needless to say the wash made no impact on him and as he was the smaller of the 4 barges moored up.

What is with the English on the canals? Ok, not all the English but it does seam to be the lone live/a/boards who have screamed at us for going too fast. 3 to date all English on large steel barges that even a Squadron at full chat couldn't disturb.

Is that why they are on their own because they are like a grumpy old Jack Russell who barks at everybody for being in his back yard?

Typical, they mistake living on the water for owning the water! Bargies amaze me - buy the narrowest beam possible then complain about the passing swans making it rock!

 

[Fjord John]

Though one of your neighbours is out most weekends in the summer shouting at boats about wash regardless of how slow they are travelling.

Ah, is this the very angry man that lives on a widebeam? We went past once and got some unjustified abuse.