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Could I just ask why boaters still keep using the lock landing stations to moor up and have cozy chats with other boaters?
On Saturday we were going to Norbury Junction, and there is only one lock on this stretch of the canal, as we approached the bridge just before the landing station we could see a boat just entering the lock to go down and two more boats on the landing station so we thought we would wait for them to move up as you do, so we hovered in the bridge entrance waiting for them to move. Then I noticed the one boater facing towards us not away, so I said to my hubby they are moored not using the lock.
Waving and shouting
On that the boater returned to his boat from the other boat moored on the landing station and cast off in our direction, and starts waving and shouting for us to move out the way which we could not do as there were boats either side of us and behind and him heading straight at us.
I would just like to say to boaters if you take the landing stations up for social chats then don't mouth-off at boaters trying to do the right thing. I appreciate boating is a pleasurable relaxing event if everyone participates in it as well, and not think they are any better then the other boaters.
Our boat is not painted yet, so I think boaters think we have not the same standards as them, but we do, and it will be painted this year without owing a single penny on the 45ft boat we have worked just as hard to have.
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