Narrowboat to the Med.

[John Orentas]

Chap on Radio 4 this morning who sailed down the Thames, crossed the channel, through France and made a token trip out into the Mediterranean.

 

His name is Terry Darlington from Stone, Staffordshire. Surprise, surprise he has written a book.

 

One or two things did not ring true, he said that all the MP's came out to watch as he passed the Houses of Parliament being such a unique happening. He implied that the crossing and the journey through France had never been done before.

[steveh]

Chap on Radio 4 this morning who sailed down the Thames, crossed the channel, through France and made a token trip out into the Mediterranean.

 

His name is Terry Darlington from Stone, Staffordshire.  Surprise, surprise he has written a book.

 

One or two things did not ring true, he said that all the MP's came out to watch as he passed the Houses of Parliament being such a unique happening.  He implied that the crossing and the journey through France had never been done before.

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The item above was featured on ITV's Waterworld for more details

 

http://www.narrowdog.com/

[dor]

This guy is a bit of an idiot, with a rather inflated opinion of his own self-impotance.

 

A couple of weeks ago there was an article written by him to accompany a feature on canal holidays.

 

Amongst the comments he made were things like "it doesn't matter if you hit another boat as you just bounce off them. Plastic boats you just pass straight through.

 

No doubt he thought he was being terribly witty, but unfortunately people hiring boats this summer will now be thinking that it doesn't matter if you go crashing into other boats.

 

He also made very light of his cross-channel trip, although I understand there was a lot of preparation before the trip, and he had an escort boat. This wasn't very obvious in the article, so people might think it is an OK thing to do to cross the channel in a narrowboat. He has said afterwards that he was prepared to lose the boat, and he got very close to it when he met the swell from the seacat ferry as it came out of calais.

[nigel carton]

As I said in a previous post, please central TV, next waterworld, leave em out! there dull and boooooring or words to that effect.....

[sbillis]

As I said in a previous post, please central TV, next waterworld, leave em out! there dull and boooooring    or words to that effect.....

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I think we should all help Bob Geldof out, take our boats to France and bring back some French folk - anyone up for it ?

[nigel carton]

yeah as long as theres non of them Seacats about!

[tony collins]

Girls, Girls, settle down, Terry Darlington's book is Hilarious and many remarks should be taken with a large pinch of salt. I suggest before you start taking life too seriously you read the book and give yourself (many) good laugh(s).

Tony Collins

[Richard Bustens]

I think we should all help Bob Geldof out, take our boats to France and bring back some French folk - anyone up for it ?

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Rather bring back fags and booze.

[reddi8]

I enjoyed following Terry Darlingtons trip to France & all the Waterworld programmes. I keep missing episodes as I never know when they are on.

[dor]

Terry Darlington's book is Hilarious and many remarks should be taken with a large pinch of salt

 

You know they should be taken with a pinch of salt, I know they should be taken with a pinch of salt, unfortunatlely there are others who believe some of the things he has said, particularly when on a radio program or newspaper article, when they are said out of contect of the book.

 

Just remember how hilarious it is when the next boat crashes into you and the helmsman says "well it doesn't matter does it, Terry said so".

[tony collins]

Just remember how hilarious it is when the next boat crashes into you and the helmsman says "well it doesn't matter does it, Terry said so".

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Not much chance of that happening I guess. but I think we're getting a bit off topic for "waterways news"

[BlueStringPudding]

Girls, Girls, settle down, Terry Darlington's book is Hilarious and many remarks should be taken with a large pinch of salt. I suggest before you start taking life too seriously you read the book and give yourself (many) good laugh(s).

Tony Collins

 

 

I agree - it's a great book. It's really funny and if a twonk on a hire narrowboat reads it and thinks it's encouraging him to run straight into a Nike-Trainer of a cruiser, then he probably also thinks that cats and mice can drop anvils on each other and survive; that Billy Piper really is stuck in another dimension (well maybe...); and that Andrew Lloyd-Webber isn't Satan incarnate.

 

Terry Darlington also mentions in his book that whippets can fly... I don't see the RSPCA up in arms about that.