Cruising at night

[leeco]

Had a guy come upto me the other night in Leeds city centre giving me crap.

 

Telling me I've left paddles open when I didn't as I know how to work locks and telling me I shouldn't be cruising at night.

 

I told him where to go and he did but if you're on here I'm sorry how I spoke to you but you lied and caused the trouble.

[MJG]

Had a guy come upto me the other night in Leeds city centre giving me crap.

 

Telling me I've left paddles open when I didn't as I know how to work locks and telling me I shouldn't be cruising at night.

 

I told him where to go and he did but if you're on here I'm sorry how I spoke to you but you lied and caused the trouble.

 

Ah right...... noted.

[leeco]

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[Jrtm]

No boat should be moving at night i can give you the 1 and only reason why & its also a safty matter ready?

 

 

Youll wake the wife and at night its the only times my ears stop hurting and i get peace.

[Naughty Cal]

Cruising at night need be no less safe then cruising during daylight hours.

 

We often don't get a choice if we have a tidal window to meet.

[steven wilkinson]

I love doing it at night!

 

 

 

 

Mike will be along soon to confirm how splendid it can be!

[Martin Megson]

You get the occasional know all. I recall getting shouted at by someone walking his dog as I'd left the lock gate open. I pointed out to him that the boat approaching the lock would prefer it open.

[davem399]

I spent many hours cruising at night, but then it is difficult finding a mooring for a 200,000 tonne tanker!

[Bod]

I spent many hours cruising at night, but then it is difficult finding a mooring for a 200,000 tonne tanker!

 

And just which canal are you on?

 

Bod

[MtB]

I spent many hours cruising at night, but then it is difficult finding a mooring for a 200,000 tonne tanker!

 

 

Honestly, you just can't get the staff these days.

 

Have you no mudweights aboard?

[davem399]

And just which canal are you on?

 

Bod:icecream:

Suez, and the Kiel Canal on a smaller one!

[Laurie Booth]

You get the occasional know all. I recall getting shouted at by someone walking his dog as I'd left the lock gate open. I pointed out to him that the boat approaching the lock would prefer it open.

It would have been great if you had apologized and asked him to close the gate. Then watch the other boat shout at him.

[Stilllearning]

Having done lots of night time cruising, just go for it, enjoy the pleasure and ignore those who say you shouldn't do it.

[leeco]

You don't get lock watchers at night too.

[Robbo]

Had a guy come upto me the other night in Leeds city centre giving me crap.

Telling me I've left paddles open when I didn't as I know how to work locks and telling me I shouldn't be cruising at night.

I told him where to go and he did but if you're on here I'm sorry how I spoke to you but you lied and caused the trouble.

Done a fair few 2am travels in Leeds centre along the river when I was moored their. Well recommended.

[Drayke]

You also don’t get the VLs around to hinder help you.

[leeco]

Done a fair few 2am travels in Leeds centre along the river when I was moored their. Well recommended.

You can't beat traveling into Leeds at night. I've done it loads of times.

 

This time it was only 11pm too.

[Jak]

Do you need navigation lights? My 'tunnel light' is broken as I realised when trying to turn it on a couple of weeks ago after dusk!

[leeco]

I don't think so. Maybe on a busy river.

[Rob-M]

Walsall branch at 3am is much nicer than doing it in daylight.

[Robbo]

You can't beat traveling into Leeds at night. I've done it loads of times.

This time it was only 11pm too.

The flyboat regularly comes back at that time after a evening trip, so hardly a non occurance in Leeds at that time!

[Athy]

Walsall branch at 3am is much nicer than doing it in daylight.

Not being able to see Walsall must indeed be an advantage.

[FadeToScarlet]

Do you need navigation lights? My 'tunnel light' is broken as I realised when trying to turn it on a couple of weeks ago after dusk!

On most canals, all you're required to have under CRT rules is a white headlight. However, most rivers want proper navigation lights.

 

At the moment, the majority of my skippering is at night on the trip boat. It's quite fun.

[Jak]

Thanks. Will try to fix it

[Mike Todd]

No boat should be moving at night i can give you the 1 and only reason why & its also a safty matter ready?

 

 

Youll wake the wife and at night its the only times my ears stop hurting and i get peace.

It is not something that I have any interest in doing (at least in a planned way) but it is a perfectly legitimate thing to do, so long as you have insurance cover. That is primarily why it is not allowed with hire boats as their insurance will generally exclude it and, in any case, you sign a contract to abide by their terms and conditions.

 

Other than being surprised, I don't think that the few times over a rather long period that I have been passed by a night navigator have we been especially disturbed. Given the way I sleep, we may well have been passed at lot more times than I am aware of!

 

"What is not forbidden is permitted" (Of course, social manners is not something that is regulated by law!) H&S is, however, and I am sure that if there were even remotely a case on those grounds for forbidding it then it would have already been done. All I ask is that you don't case an accident that is attributed to night navigation and that some ill-informed coroner then instructs CaRT to ban it! Who knows where that might end?