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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2019 11:17:54 GMT
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Post by ianali on Oct 13, 2019 11:22:39 GMT
My only issue with noddy boats getting to a mooring first is if they take up a big spot when there is a vacant small spot close by. (you see it all the time, gaps between boats almost but not quite big enough to fit in another boat) However on the Trent, I did have a yoghurt pot overtake me to jump into a place I was lined up for. I was a lot closer than the filmed incident ...... (In that he might have been pissed off but he had plenty of time to maneuver) In my particular case I was unable to go ahead and turn as the cruiser was so close it was out of sight under my bow and I couldn't go astern as I would have propwalked into the boat I was passing. I needed to be almost past it before going astern (which then dropped me neatly alongside the mooring spot.) My only safe course of action was to continue whilst blowing the horn. (Anyway, as the overtaking boat he had to keep clear of me) The boater declined to be used as a fender by an 80 ton barge and removed himself. I remember it well John, In some ways I suspect that Steve waited for a cruiser to leave that spot and then was going for it gently, the cruiser is much faster than the narrowboat so could easily make the space. After that it all goes wrong Steve should have stopped and maybe had a go at the cruiser verbally! The problem is that anything can be added to the video or edited out, I have had this done with a dashcam footage recently, and luckily they made a basic error, which the judge saw so discounted it as evidence! When I was on the thames years ago I had numerous cruisers jump into spaces that I was heading for because they could fly up and stop on a sixpence! a right pain in the proverbial Having met Steve Haywood a couple of times I must say this incident quite surprised me. He has always taken the time to chat with us. Ali, who has an interest in writing spent ages chatting with him, first time we met he whisked her off into the dry dock at Tooleys to see around his boat, it was in being repainted. Has always been friendly with us. However, I can see no excuse for what’s happened. All this talk of boats rushing around nicking others moorings isn’t how we boat. Some people need to slow down and realise how lucky they are to be on the water.
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 13, 2019 12:03:19 GMT
Aah.. I hadn't realised Mr Hey-would-you-like-a-crash bumped into the fibre-glass boat, I thought the yoghurt pot had just hit the quayside.
And then he just ran away?
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 13, 2019 12:14:41 GMT
I have to agree what agrade A tosser.He could have easily avoided the other boat. He didn’t want to. It was clearly deliberate. Perhaps Steve Haywood should be locked up. With the Manchester stabber. Both have mental issues. A danger to the public.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2019 12:15:48 GMT
Aah.. I hadn't realised Mr Hey-would-you-like-a-crash bumped into the fibre-glass boat, I thought the yoghurt pot had just hit the quayside. And then he just ran away? So you didn't think the title of the video was a bit of a clue??
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 13, 2019 12:19:02 GMT
You have to laugh at 'canal rage'. Get a rental car if you want to zoom about and fight for parking places at Sainsbury's.
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 13, 2019 12:25:08 GMT
Aah.. I hadn't realised Mr Hey-would-you-like-a-crash bumped into the fibre-glass boat, I thought the yoghurt pot had just hit the quayside. And then he just ran away? So you didn't think the title of the video was a bit of a clue?? Not so easy always to see videos on my phone, that one was hard to wind back/forward to the important bits. But I did think the plastic boat man talked like a plonker. I'd have used fruitier language. I still think the filming and his action was deliberately provocative. Well... there ya go... two fools.
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Post by Jim on Oct 13, 2019 12:31:03 GMT
What a twat. Video link sent to the editors of Canal Boat. To obviously ram another boat and then use your position to claim you are innocent is out of order, on top of the initial offence.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2019 12:38:27 GMT
So you didn't think the title of the video was a bit of a clue?? Not so easy always to see videos on my phone, that one was hard to wind back/forward to the important bits. But I did think the plastic boat man talked like a plonker. I'd have used fruitier language. I still think the filming and his action was deliberately provocative. Well... there ya go... two fools. Lots of people these days film whilst they are out boating. You tube is littered with videos of people out enjoying themselves on their own boats and hire boats. Capturing that incident was incidental IMHO.
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Post by Jim on Oct 13, 2019 12:45:17 GMT
So you didn't think the title of the video was a bit of a clue?? Not so easy always to see videos on my phone, that one was hard to wind back/forward to the important bits. But I did think the plastic boat man talked like a plonker. I'd have used fruitier language. I still think the filming and his action was deliberately provocative. Well... there ya go... two fools. Stop being a knob. How can a video be provocative, it's a true record of the event. Steve didn't know he was being recorded. The narrowboat cut across that other cruiser, no appropriate horn signal for a start. It's obvious by his tiller movements he intended to ram the cruiser on the mooring.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2019 13:17:28 GMT
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Post by Jim on Oct 13, 2019 13:23:28 GMT
Giggle, that was too good an opportunity to miss. I followed it by quoting him, as posted on cwdf "Now let me spell this out for fear there should be any ambiguity. There is NO place for rudeness on the canal, there is NO place for canal rage, NO place for bad language. All this we would agree on. But there should be NO place for entitlement either. It doesn't matter how big your boat is, how much it cost you, how many decades you've been on the cut and how much more you know about canals than anyone else. Once you are afloat you are part of an egalitarian community in which, whoever you are, you have a right to the same treatment and respect as anyone else. And this means you have the responsibility to treat them as you'd wish to be treated." From an article he wrote for Canal Boat Magazine. May 2019.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 13, 2019 13:28:45 GMT
Just checked out that link. He seems like a typical Labour supporting Remoaner.
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Post by Jim on Oct 13, 2019 13:37:36 GMT
Just checked out that link. He seems like a typical Labour supporting Remoaner. With some obvious right wing tendencies, getting violent if he doesn't get his way.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 13, 2019 13:42:07 GMT
Just checked out that link. He seems like a typical Labour supporting Remoaner. With some obvious right wing tendencies, getting violent if he doesn't get his way. Yes, like I said, a typical Labour supporting Remoaner.
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