Terry Streeter formulated on Sunday :
> Guy Hardy asked:
>> Any tips for the uninitiated?
>
> Ron Jones replied:
>> Nice long centre rope.
>
> Iain Street commented
>> But not long enough to go round the propellor :-)
>
> I keep hearing this mantra that "No rope should be long enough to reach
> the prop" which IMHO is a load of old tosh. In 20 years boating (the
> last seven of which have mostly been fairly intensive single handing),
> I've never had (or even heard of) a boat's rope actually getting caught
> on the prop.
>
It happened to a boat at Napton Top lock just as the last CIBC rally
held there was breaking up. and I saw a boat in the Stoke Bruerne
flight do it with their centre rope TWICE
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