Rich Greenhall

I thought it went really smoothly this year a great improvement on last year, a great job by the stewards. I also echo Ian’s words going past the turn and backing into the second entrance would be considerably harder with a pair. thank you Ray for your kind comments regarding Nuneaton and Brighton we do sometimes get a bad press so really pleasing to hear.

i remember that swing bridge well, it was an absolute pig to operate

I feel this comment actually highlights the problem beautifully, a nothing event happened today where a boat had a minor cock up ( I presume, I wasn’t there they could equally have picked up a blade full and lost steerage) just like probably hundreds of other boats all over the system will have had minor cock ups today. Nothing was damaged, no one was hurt and the day carried on happily, lessons will have been learnt (which is the exact purpose of this training run) but it gets commented about on here, why, purely because historic boats were involved. Rich

cheers Rob it was me steering at the time, by the time I recognised you you had passed Rich

I’m not new on here but first time posting, sorry but I must reply to this. The Narrowboat Trust are using this run back from Braunston as a training run there are no fewer than 4 brand new, never steering a working boat or possibly even a boat before. it’s not ideal when anything gets bumped but I think as a rule we boat pretty well we certainly aim to but please bear in mind whenever you see our boats it could be someone steering for the first time albeit under instruction. cheers Rich