Looking behind you !

[Murflynn]

I like to look back and see if the other boat has run aground after we passed - it happens in about 10% of cases.

you must be doing something wrong.

[Athy]

I generally look back to see if they are looking back...

Thanks for the Johnny "Guitar" Watson reference, just listened to the record and it has quite set me up for the marvellous day which lies ahead.

 

I tend to look back at interesting boats, be they ones powered by thumpy engines or characterful old Springers.

Edited September 14, 2016 by Athy

[Dave_P]

I do this but I don't know why. Maybe because everyone else does.

[MtB]

Its not just boating. I tend to do it when motorway driving. When a car in another lane traveling slightly faster of slower draws level, I feel driven to glance at the driver.

 

No idea why but now I've become conscious of it, I often catch them glancing sideways back at me too.

[boingy]

They are looking back to make sure you are not looking back at them.

Either that or they are checking out your, um, stern....

[Machpoint005]

Does it make any difference if you had a conversation with them as you crossed?

[Keeping Up]

you must be doing something wrong.

I'm sure you're right. Maybe with more practice I can get it up to 20%

[Peter X]

Even when there's very little in front of me to worry about, I think I very rarely look back after passing. Maybe I'm doing it without realising?

[QCat]

I do it and then feel all embarrassed if the other person also looks back and sees me looking back...

[Scholar Gypsy]

I look behind me when I go through a bridge, to check that the number is the same on both sides. It invariably is.

[RLWP]

I look behind me when I go through a bridge, to check that the number is the same on both sides. It invariably is.

 

Not on the BCN, it isn't

 

Richard

[magnetman]

I tend to look back briefly after passing. I also wave when I have eye contact and do generally positive body language as we are in theory both enjoying the boating experience.

 

Apparently the working boatmen would ignore oncoming steerers until they had passed at which point they would both glance back to make sure nothing had gone wrong. That's what I heard or read somewhere anyway.

 

Edit for techmicle point

Edited September 14, 2016 by magnetman

[Peter X]

That's interesting but puzzling; if anything goes wrong when passing another boat the steerers should see and/or hear as it happens. But when towing a butty the motor steerer might well look back to check how well the butty is passing the other boat and any other obstacle such as a bridge hole or moored boat.

[Athy]

Apparently the working boatmen would ignore oncoming steerers until they had passed at which point they would both glance back to make sure nothing had gone wrong. That's what I heard or read somewhere anyway.

 

 

I thought that they waffled away nineteen to the dozen, as they had only a minute or so's mutual audibility to catch up with the news and scandal.

[RLWP]

I thought that they waffled away nineteen to the dozen, as they had only a minute or so's mutual audibility to catch up with the news and scandal.

News and scandal is for locks

 

Richard

[cuthound]

Apparently the working boatmen would ignore oncoming steerers until they had passed at which point they would both glance back to make sure nothing had gone wrong. That's what I heard or read somewhere anyway.

Edit for techmicle point

I thought they said "how do".

[Ray T]

I thought they said "how do".

 

Or as was mentioned in another thread - "The Nod."

[MissMax]

Or

'Toss hair back in slow motion, lick lips and flutter eyelashes'

 

Maybe it's just a Skipton thing

[Greylady2]

To see if he's been pushed onto the mud??

Omg yer thats true i soon realised going too slow and giving too much space to them speeders is not good, a good amount of revs brings my rear end away from the mud when were 50/50 side to side.

 

Lesson learnt, but still in the early learning centre.

[Greylady2]

 

Well, quite. I always like to survey the disasters I have left in my wake

 

Richard

Next time you wont be so lucky Richy. (Insert evil stare here)

[bizzard]

I often look behind when traveling. I prefer to look at where I've been rather than where I'm going. I always drive a car in reverse for this purpose. I always sit with my back to the engine when on a train. When in a black taxi which hasn't got those little perch seats facing backwards I kneel on the back seat looking out of the window.

This habit began when I was very young you see. My dad had a motor bike combination with child adult sidecar. I soon outgrew the little seat at the back so dad knocked out the partition between the seat back and its little boot and turned the seat backrest to face backwards. I then sat back to front with my legs in the boot, looking at where we'd been.

I wear clothes inside out too. (Inside out) was my field position when forced to play football at school.

[Horace42]

I often look behind when traveling. I prefer to look at where I've been rather than where I'm going. I always drive a car in reverse for this purpose. I always sit with my back to the engine when on a train. When in a black taxi which hasn't got those little perch seats facing backwards I kneel on the back seat looking out of the window.

This habit began when I was very young you see. My dad had a motor bike combination with child adult sidecar. I soon outgrew the little seat at the back so dad knocked out the partition between the seat back and its little boot and turned the seat backrest to face backwards. I then sat back to front with my legs in the boot, looking at where we'd been.

I wear clothes inside out too. (Inside out) was my field position when forced to play football at school.

 

? ot drawrof kool ot gnihtemos taht t'nsi ? samX. ta eganam uoy od woH

[bizzard]

 

? ot drawrof kool ot gnihtemos taht t'nsi ? samX. ta eganam uoy od woH

nagilliM ekipS ekiL

[David Mack]

I wear clothes inside out.

Do you wear your underpants outside your trousers too?

 

Superbizzard...

[David Mack]

Edited to remove double post.

Edited September 16, 2016 by David Mack