Email: Zulu and butty again

I have never contacted you before, but may I add to those who have already complained about the boat Zulu and its butty emblazoned with  R. & J.B.

This time it was in a bridge hole where we 'had words'.  My boat was actually under the bridge in the hole and Zulu was a good 100 yards away when the steerer started blowing his horn and gesticulating for me to go back, though 1: the waterway on his side was wide, and I know dredged; 2: there was plenty of time for me to get through and into the side allowing him the main channel.

So I did, veering over to the right, but dammed if the man also veered into me to try and stop me, which I had to do or he would have hit me. At the last minute he steered away yelling at me that traditional boats had the right of way over everything when towing a butty and I should have reversed back out of the bridge to allow him his way.

The fact that there was a line of moored boats on that side he either obviously did not see or did not care about.  But in any case his was not a traditional boat, as it looked like one of those from R.W. Davis & Son, and was certainly not traditional.

This sort of behaviour by this pair, and that described by other writers, does the lot of traditional boats a great deal of harm, whom on the whole I feel are worthy of support.

Jake Leatherage