IanM

So why the question? Or are you just trying to stir things up?

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Moving from place to place like any other boat. Why the confusion? Wide beam boats have to book passage through the tunnels hence the notifications.

Also remember that the likelihood of you getting something wrong when boating is directly proportional to the amount of people watching you at the time. i.e. with no-one watching you will be able to moor like a boating god. With 6 people watching you will be in the trees on the opposite bank having knocked your favourite coffee mug into the canal.

I would think that most boaters on the waterways haven’t got any certificates and have just picked it up as they went along. There are helmsman courses that you can do and I think they are held in quite high regard although they aren’t mandatory and will probably help you build on your existing skills rather than show you exactly how to do things. The yachty/power boating/lumpy water types on here will bang on about certifications and training but in reality on the canals and small rivers it isn’t necessary. Edited to add: I did do a RCR engine maintenance course and found that extremely useful.

[pedant mode] You’re going to need a bigger boat [/pedant mode] An often mis-quoted quote.

A lot of subscriptions aren’t direct debits but just charge your card every month. If you use a debit card to set up the subscription it comes out of your bank account.

I’ll have to introduce you to my mother. We have enough mugs and cups to enable 27 people to be on board and all drinking out of a clean one at the same time. The boat sleeps a maximum of 4.

Have you filled in the support form on their website? https://readly.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb/requests/new

I had a similar experience with Beer52. Only option to cancel is over the phone with a very hard sell trying to persuade me to stay and use the points I had accrued to get money off beer cases which itself was a bit of a con as you could only redeem points for half the value of an order so it was still going to cost me money on top of the monthly subscription. Cancelling a Hello Fresh subscription was much the same.

If you type an @ then start typing the the person's user name and select it from the list that pops up (you may need to type a few letters). It will tag them in your reply and notify them. Like this screenshot below. @Laurie Booth

Maybe if you mention @BCN Challenge in your posts they might spot it and give you answers to your questions.

It does seem a little odd not finding the forum "useful or suitable". Their only obvious interaction has been a good topic in an interesting part of the forum which has produced good replies.

I did have a conversation with Phil Trotter back in the late 90s about them. He said they were “coffee stained original drawings that they’d been given”. I was building a model and asked if I could see them but he refused. I was about 20 and had never really chatted to him before so didn’t push it any further.

I would think the rowers, assuming that the other boat didn’t reverse into them.