matisok

A bit of background: I'd lived on that lump of floating metal for a number of years and had numerous trips up and down the harbour and on the canals, some of them while sober. I'm thinking that the traditional kayak community also had simmilar discussions when white water kayiking was getting hot. It'll only be a matter of time before extreme narrowboating goes mainstream. Get ready to stomp it!

Publishing it makes people learn from others

It would have been a lot safer to do that stern thing you guys are talking about. I didn't know that this technique existed thanks. I'm also glad to hear that it _was_ a particularly desperate day conditions wise. At the time I thought it was all just part of the fun of narrowboating! I have no idea about the speed we were doing, but it was really really fast. I had to run with quite a lot of throttle to be able to stear downstream. As it turns out it all worked pretty well mind you, and it sure was a festive ride. It was also quite exciting to get the boat moored up here and there. I'm glad we didn't end over that weir thing like the Captain on Saltford Lock. Yoor!

I was the captain on the good ship that day (and it's me who wrote the report). I still get sweaty palms reading the report and thinking back on that weekend. I'm into all sorts of adrenalin pumping activities (see elsewhere on that http://willerup.com site), but "Extreme Narrowboating" beats it all! It was extremely lucky though, that we did fit under that "industrial looking bridge", since it'd been really ugly if the water had been a couple inches higher. Pfeww.