Well we are on the way back to our winter mooring , having been out since April. Today hubby decide to teach me a few basics. Big mistake I broke the dipstick , end of lesson. Any ideas where I can get a new one for an air cooled lister st3 to save me lol. Any way Mr grumpy and I got down Buckby flight , i hate those locks I am sure they are the hardest on the system , and decide to moor Dodford way. Things were calm again by now so were having a gentle cruise for aout 30 mins and going to moor for the night. As we approached a narrow bit we could see another boat coming towards us but we were a lot closer so continued , just as we were a third of the way through we saw the boat coming towards at a furious rate , hubby immediately whacked it in reverse , but he still kept coming , he hit us head on and the mess in the boat you would not believe , we also found out later we have considerable damage to the front of the boat. still he kept coming and pushed us back so he could get through, the guy on the front of his boat said its not me talk to the captain ,also looked as though he wanted to abandon ship. As he forced his way past he said sorry about that it wont go any slower , to which my husband replied have you no reverse, will you pull over and tie up. No way he was gone and we are 70 ft so cant turn just anywhere. A boat travelling behind him said he has been hitting everything all the while we have been following . The only conclusion we could make he was drunk, so we called BW and hopefully the patrol officer got him going up Buckby. I did manage to get boat name but not number. Nice welcome home , well almost
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