Felshampo

No but you are. You didn't read my original post where I said I had a boat with a trad stern and speed controls.

Exactly

Not sure why you think I am coming in too fast, surely it makes no difference. Where it is different is that the prop effect is different on the left compared to the right. Also the depth of water with a deep drafted boat is different to a other boats. I never use the centre line to stop the boat as it is already stationary when I step off, maybe you are trying to come in too fast...... 😁 Agreed the behave very differently.

That's easy for you to say but being my OH she ignores all my advice which is why I want someone with experience of these controls. You have to be more subtle with trad controls, especially in locks and when coming in to moor.

As they all claim to have years of experience I am surprised that none of them have any experience of trad controls.

I would like to do a helmsmans course and my OH a beginners course. We want to use our boat as it has a trad stern with speed controls. Most companies that run courses seem to do them on their boats with morso controls. If they do offer courses on your boat they seem to either not do them if you have a trad stern or speed controls. Does anyone know of anyone who will do them on our boat? We are happy to travel to them anywhere on the system.

I thought the quote was preach not teach, it's a dig at shaman not intellectuals........

Won't the Lichfield and Hatherton canals be independent once they are opened?

Your being kind. I think most are ignorant of the history of the canals even as resently as the 1980s. Let alone the IWA and the state they were in in the 60s and 70's. I heard a podcast by the "Angry Boater" with another London liveaboard complaining about some old fogey from the IWA who stood up in a meeting and tried to put the condition of the London canals into some kind of context. They clearly had no idea about the work that had been done by volunteers only thirty or forty years ago. I think many of them believe the canals were all in perfect condition up until about ten years ago.

Makes me smile when people, especially on Facebook, complain about CRT and claim BW were wonderful. When you point out they used to set fire to lock gates, allegedly, to prevent the movement of boats and made dredging illegal it makes CRT seem quite nice.

I had penicillin injections, which are a bit lumpy, in my thigh and glute when I was in hospital after an accident. I remember the nurse saying that a patient had refused and asked to have it in the arm and spent the rest of the day in agony.

When I lived in the states I visited Mormon country in Pennsylvania. I went to Intercourse and French Lick but didn't get to Climax............ bizarre.

Saw this one on the Thames this year, made me smile.

Yes, thanks, I saw that a couple of weeks ago.

They asked her when they could come through that week, as Tina usually wants a minimum of 24 hrs notice but she said no.

I was talking to someone yesterday in Bill Fen who said she refused to let them through. Told them to go back to their mooring. That's why I asked if anyone had been through.

Has anyone been through Standground lock since the EA announced the waterways were open? I've heard Tina is reluctant to let boats through.

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Isn't that because the air is so polluted?

No one could match his clarity and charm unfortunately.

As a campaigning antitheist along with Christopher Hitchin I am pretty sure he doesn't have any christian names (the predictive text added the capital c)

"Christian" ......... Oops