From: "Captain Beeky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Uh oh ! I agree with Sue again. I have no idea what speed I travel past > moored boats, but usually slow enough not to upset (!) them. I think I > make less disturbance pressing on to within a boat and a half length of > the moored one, then slipping into neutral. That doesn't work for long > lines of moored boats.
I would have guessed that if you started at 3mph you might not have slowed down soon enough by that method. Remember the boat's pressure wave travels quite a long way ahead of it. My own technique is to drop into neutral quite a long way in advance of the moored boat, wait until my biat's speed has dropped to what I consider appropriate, then re-engage the engine at tickover, beginning to open the trottle slowley as soon as my stern draws level with the far end of the moored boat. > In general I would say that 5 mph is quite wash makingly fast on Uncle > Mort and it's difficult to keep up that speed for long in polite > company. So therefore, like Sue, I would not decribe 3mph as slow. On most narrow canals, I find 3mph is about the best speed we can make. At thw moment we're on the Macclesfield, where the comfortable speed is 2mph. > Anyway I budget 4 lock miles per hour and generally beat the plan. > Which is nice. We can beat 4 lm/h easily if there are plenty of locks, can't reach it if there aren't. We did 5.68 lm/h up Bosley a couple of days ago (2 handed). Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk > > Beeky > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
