That Guy

I have been informed today that Steve is no longer a contributor to Canal Boat magazine. Please therefore continue to support the magazine. It’s a valuable resource to the community, run by enthusiasts for enthusiasts. The last thing I want is for me being rammed by SH to affect sales of the mag. Thanks all, and happy cruising! Will (That Guy)

Hopefully there won’t be a next time! I was a bit stunned and didn’t handle the situation very well, apart from it seems my exceedingly British approach, which in retrospect could have been improved with a short pause for a sip of Earl Grey between insults! I even called his wife “madam”! Give me a knighthood! Filmed with nothing more technical than a Panasonic Camcorder. HC-V380. Only a few hundred quid new but a few years old now! Still does the job it seems, and can pick up guff comments from afar!

“Will” will suffice! Or maybe the grim reaper! Lol But thinking about it, I’d love it if I was spotted at the helm and someone shouted out “look, it’s That Guy”! Lol plenty of other vids on my channel with my ugly mug on there, including one of us sailing the half decker on the Broads, (yes I do agility with my dog too, but you can ignore those!)

Luckily we were fine. I was a bit stunned at the time so didn’t demand he tie up until we assessed everything. I should have done, but I did dangle off the bow straight after to check we were in one piece! Good fenders are a godsend!

Guilty as charged! We did sailed a 100 year old half decker gaff rigged (sailing) Broads boat for a week a few years back. Does that mitigate our sin? We managed to not hit anything and it doesn’t have any reverse gears!

I posted it within a few weeks of it happening, essentially because I told Steve afterwards in a “conversation” when I found him moored downstream later that afternoon, that he would be able to find the evidence on YouTube. I got the feeling he thought I was bluffing and that I didn’t have any footage of the actual ram. He was so belligerent and pretty much dared me to post it. I’d have filmed that conversation too however he demanded I switch my phone completely off before he said anything so I couldn’t record him. It would have made great listening! The video sat largely unnoticed with a couple of hundred hits until this week when all hell broke loose, and as of this morning it was up to around 14,000! I don’t regret posting it after all that has happened. I think that he needed exposing as the hypocrite and bully that he is. I’m just glad we were filming. It was only done to be part of a holiday video. Always try to film us mooring just in case we nail a perfect one! Lol. And we’ve all been in that position eh? Looking for a mooring and you see that someone else has their eye on it. In his shoes I would have shrugged and moved on. You can hear that we slow down to approach it, not speed up as he asserts at the end, so I really don’t see how we could be seen to do anything wrong. He just got the hump because a lowly hire boat slipped in there first and decided to administer his own type of retribution. Film doesn’t lie tho (and it wasn’t a wide angle lens!)

I didn’t want to stir it up again though. I just wanted to say that I’ve only just read this lot and wanted to say thank you for the support and validating my belief that we didn’t do anything wrong. Just hope I don’t bump into the angry little man again! (Or vice versa!)

Good point. You’ll have to trust me on that one, and not feel that it’s someone trying to get this thread to 500! Lol Seriously though. It is me. That was my YouTube video. Are comments still open on YouTube? Post a comment on the ramming video, and the owner (me) will reply straight away with the response “That Guy”. Would that prove it?

Yep. That guy whose best insult he could muster is “you shitbag”. How embarrassing. I should have done better.

To the Tupperware skipper? Nope. He knows where to find me tho.