Canal Etiquette

[Flibbertigibbet]

Just been on an extended canal stay, which was most enjoyable, but I only have two things to say to fellow canal users:

 

1. Please, slow down when you're passing moored boats.

 

2. TAKE YOUR LITTER HOME WITH YOU

 

It's not too much to ask, is it?

[Laurie Booth]

Please name and shame the boats.

It's not too much to ask, is it?

 

Edited October 25, 2018 by Laurie.Booth

[aracer]

I'm not entirely sure here is the best place to pass the message on to the offenders.

 

Or maybe I'm wrong and there will be a flurry of replies defending speeding past moored boats and leaving rubbish?

[Athy]

4 minutes ago, Laurie.Booth said:

Please name and shame the boats.

It's not too much to ask, is it?

 

I think so, yes.

It would also be impracticable to name all the people who dropped litter!

[Alan de Enfield]

26 minutes ago, Flibbertigibbet said:

1. Please, slow down when you're passing moored boats.

Ok - I'll bite :

 

If you tied your boat up correctly boats going past wouldn't cause any problem - you can hardly say 3mph is 'speeding'.

[rasputin]

My boat weighs just over a ton, i cant belive that going past you at even 4 mph adversely affects you, 

[Phil Ambrose]

13 minutes ago, rasputin said:

My boat weighs just over a ton, i cant belive that going past you at even 4 mph adversely affects you, 

Agreed, can't believe your boat displaces enough water to cause too much of a problem 

Phil 

[howardang]

21 minutes ago, Phil Ambrose said:

Agreed, can't believe your boat displaces enough water to cause too much of a problem 

Phil 

These are  interesting and different topics. I wonder why no-one has raised the issues before - especially the one about speeding!?

 

Howard

Edited October 25, 2018 by howardang

[sirweste]

Forum etiquette: Use the search function to ensure a the topic hasn't been discussed previously

[rasputin]

27 minutes ago, howardang said:

These are  interesting and different topics. I wonder why no-one has raised the issues before - especially the one about speeding!?

 

Howard

I think it is how a forum stays alive, otherwise 90% of new posts would be answered with i refer you to post "x" 

[Arthur Marshall]

I've never yet managed to make the search function find anything, myself.

However, if all the OP has to say to other canal users is "mind where you're chucking your rubbish and SLOW DOWN", I don't understand how he managed to enjoy his stay on the cut...

[Athy]

1 hour ago, Phil Ambrose said:

Agreed, can't believe your boat displaces enough water to cause too much of a problem 

Phil 

You'd be surprised. Passing canoes rock our boat more than passing narrowboats do.

[rasputin]

14 minutes ago, Athy said:

You'd be surprised. Passing canoes rock our boat more than passing narrowboats do.

I doubt they pull your mooring pins out or knock your teapot off the shelf 

[Athy]

1 minute ago, rasputin said:

I doubt they pull your mooring pins out or knock your teapot off the shelf 

No. Neither, as I implied, do the narrowboats.

[mrsmelly]

its quite funny. I was just opening this thread when I hear a boat approaching way back engine at about eighty thousand revs. He has just steamed past me and knocked it back to tickover as he cleared me for the narrows 100 yards ahead ................plonker. I never go out shouting and screaming I just grin smugly knowing that I always pass at tickover as my manners dictate it wether a boat is tied up on tight lines or slack.

[Nut]

this thread teaches me one thing moor correctly will be taking my helmsman course in 2019 hopefully I will get taught

[howardang]

38 minutes ago, Nut said:

this thread teaches me one thing moor correctly will be taking my helmsman course in 2019 hopefully I will get taught

Visit the Canal & River Trust website and download the free book The Boaters Handbook which will teach you nearly all you will be taught on the course, including how to moor.

 

Howard

[Alan de Enfield]

38 minutes ago, Nut said:

this thread teaches me one thing moor correctly will be taking my helmsman course in 2019 hopefully I will get taught

All you need to know (note the angles) :

 

[MtB]

12 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

All you need to know (note the angles) :

 

 

 

Funny looking narrow boat. 

 

And where is this mythical pontoon in your diagram please? I never see them when out cruising the cut. I want to moor there!!

 

 

[zenataomm]

6 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

And where is this mythical pontoon in your diagram please? I never see them when out cruising the cut. I want to moor there!!

 

 

……… that'll be Gunthorpe on the Trent, nice pub and restaurant nearby 

[Alan de Enfield]

7 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

 

Funny looking narrow boat. 

 

And where is this mythical pontoon in your diagram please? I never see them when out cruising the cut. I want to moor there!!

 

 

Grow up.

[Scholar Gypsy]

7 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

 

Funny looking narrow boat. 

 

And where is this mythical pontoon in your diagram please? I never see them when out cruising the cut. I want to moor there!!

 

 

Here's one, and on Wisbech cut so I would argue it does count ...

 

[MtB]

Just now, zenataomm said:

……… that'll be Gunthorpe on the Trent, nice pub and restaurant nearby 

 

How do you get off the pontoon to go to the pub? it appears to be completely surrounded with water...

Just now, Alan de Enfield said:

Grow up.

 

I'm 11 next birthday, I'll have you know.....

1 minute ago, Scholar Gypsy said:

Here's one, and on Wisbech cut so I would argue it does count ...

 

 

 

Moat of the mooring opportunities around my way look like the opposite bank in your photo!

 

 

Which is why I find Alan's neat and geometric mooring diagrams so comical. 

[Nut]

all knotted (noted) thank you

[howardang]

25 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

All you need to know (note the angles) :

 

The trouble with this diagram is that it is uncommon to find a suitably placed bollard or ring to attach your backsprings. Much better for novices is to show a narrow boat and the reality that the backsprings will be much shorter than yacht scenarios depict. I think this type of diagram, although correct for yachts in some seagoing marinas, can confuse beginners on the waterways. Much better, in my view, to use diagrams that are more representative of what a newcomer to the canals would face, hence the Boaters Handbook.

 

Howard