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Post by bargemast on Jul 6, 2018 9:10:47 GMT
This video shows how a yacht skipper that was too much in a hurry to get into the lock together with a commercial barge, and didn't wait for the commercial to tie up first had to pay for his mistake.
If he's waited one or two minutes the barge would have been tied up and there wouldn't have been a whirlpool anymore, but by the way the helmsman and his crew handled nobody on board didn't seem to know what to do anyway.
Peter.
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Post by kris on Jul 6, 2018 10:08:17 GMT
Why didn't he stop near the gates after initially being swept back to them?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 6, 2018 10:14:09 GMT
Gott verdomme!
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Post by bargemast on Jul 6, 2018 10:40:45 GMT
Why didn't he stop near the gates after initially being swept back to them? I can't answer that question for him, but as I wrote to start with, if he'd waited only a minute or 2, everything would have been easy.
The way it was he could have continued instead of trying to stop and tie-up with his useless crew (as useless as himself) and moor further forward next to the commercial, as there was plenty of space, and that would have given them more mooring possiblities, alongside the lockside, or on the many bollards on the commercial barge if they would end up against him, as in that space they couldn't have spun around anymore.
Peter.
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Post by bargemast on Jul 6, 2018 10:46:08 GMT
You still have some useful international truckers language left I see.
A mixture between German and Dutch that they will both understand.
Maybe because the Dutch (if they're like me) don't believe in God they give him a letter less than the Germans, as for them it's like the English God.
It could indeed be quite likely that that would have been said many times onboard the small boat 
Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2018 11:45:21 GMT
You have to wonder if there was an element of making life uncomfortable for them!
What a bunch of clowns though - no life jackets - crew dancing around the gunwales and fore deck in a fairly risky situation - skipper reckless and clueless
As Kris says, hanging back at the tail of the lock would have been a better idea!.
Lucky for them they could spin round in the lock, had the boat been longer someone may have got wet.
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Post by bargemast on Jul 6, 2018 12:11:21 GMT
You have to wonder if there was an element of making life uncomfortable for them! What a bunch of clowns though - no life jackets - crew dancing around the gunwales and fore deck in a fairly risky situation - skipper reckless and clueless As Kris says, hanging back at the tail of the lock would have been a better idea!. Lucky for them they could spin round in the lock, had the boat been longer someone may have got wet. The better, or even the best idea would have been to let the barge tie-up before entering, then nothing like this would have happened at all.
But people are in a hurry on the roads, they have to overtake even if they can see that there are loads of slow cars or trucks in front of them, or the traffic light they're approching just turned red.
Their behaviour on the water is often the same as on the roads, if a bunch of boats have been waiting for a big lock to open, as soon as the gates start to open it's becomming a race again, to try to get in first.
If they're lucky, they will be in their box before all the others too 
Peter.
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Post by airedaleman on Jul 6, 2018 20:49:40 GMT
Wonderful really enjoyed that. The number of times Nederland cruisers have jumped in front of us and even the big commercials in the Mass Locks in one case passing us in the lock to get in front just as we had the bollard lined up. Managed to hold back but have thought since should have rammed it.
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