----- Original Message ----- From: "Eycott, George, VF UK - Technology (TS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 8:45 AM Subject: [canals-list] Boating a pair single handed(ish)
>I have a question for the esteemed members of this list. > I se them up with the shorter boats bows about three feet behind the > longer boat and steered the longer boat. I had a heck of a job stopping > the whole lot going around in circles and ended up going between the two > to actually get anywhere. > > So, how should I have set the boats up? Thinking about it afterwards I > suspect it may have been easier if the sterns were level (but a right > sod to tie together...) > > Any ideas? > > George "Bungle" Eycott Having a small amount of experience of this sort of thing, (3 boats, 2 people, down the Regent's) I don't think it makes a lot of difference (but this is only my uneducated opinion!) where you tie the other boat on. What it is important to remember is that the other boat is a big lump with its own momentum, so when approaching a lock one needs to start slowing down a lot earlier than with only one boat. That way, the other boat loses some of its momentum and is less likely to pull the other one off course. Dorothy
