So
We are new boat owners, and thought we were doing the right thing, waiting for another boat that was a lock behind us in foxhangers, in order to go up the flight together.
It was a hire boat with 4 fit men on it. A hill
granted we were only 2 so having extra hands would be helpful. they wanted to have lunch first, so we also waited an additional 20 minutes for them to eat lunch. I thought i was being courteous.... little did i know we should of just left 30 mins earlier and done it our selves. and reverse set the locks for them in doing so.
1 man who was wearing pink shorts had an enormous chip on his shoulder.
about 10 locks in, pinkpants stormed up to me at the helm in the lock and started shouting profanities at me. F this and C this, I'm a rude B. and that they are going the rest alone with out us, and that we HAD to wait there for them to go.
preceding this.
HIS partner had twice opened the top paddle before the lower gates were shut, and the second time he did it my husband shouted at him to shut the paddles. shouting mainly because he was standing on top of a diesel engine, and there was gushing water everywhere, and our boat, OUR boat not a hire boat which wasted even in the lock was being buffeted and push back out.
also preceding this, my husband had run around to help with the top gates at one point leaving the lower gate open and unprepared for the next person. with full intention of going back down and shutting them as the next lock was filling up. but Mr pink pants once again shouted at me that my stupid husband didn't know he should just stay with his gate and man his gate.
Pinkpants had barked orders at me and my husband the whole time, and of which we mostly obeyed despite HIS attitude. after all he had been canal boating once 15 years ago.
his yelling at me half way up the momentous flight reduced me to tears, and frankly ruined my second weekend as a new live aboard boat owner. I didn't have the guts nor thought it would be useful to retaliate to such a bully.
Bully because he did not have the guts to say one single thing to my husband, and only wanted to pick on me. when my husband asked him if he had a problem to say something to him, he didn't say a single thing. i wanted to throw his windlass in the lock...
hindsight i wish I had have said a lot of things. but oh well. bygones be bygones
anyways look out for them, they are on the Kennet and Avon in a green/red/yellow ABC leisure boat from hilperton marina. one old angry man wearing pink shorts and 3 others following his bulling orders.