THERE have been complaints about people with work boats travelling at night without lights and with little regard for other users, with one boater speaking out.
Do the rest of us boating people suffer from the night traveller syndrome? Writes James Cookes.
Play work boaters
It seems to be the thing with the boys that play work boaters that they must own the canal they travel. During the day they force you off the cut into all the crap stating they are deep drafted (although they are empty). There's not enough day light hours for them so they travel in the dark, smashing into what ever gets in their way then laughing at the damage as you cuss them.
I recently have been hit three times in one night while on a visitor mooring on the North Oxford the second time at 10.00pm. Is there really any need to be travelling at this time of night? When I pulled the guy up I got a load of abuse and told I should not have been there. eh?
Not safe
I actually pay a full licence. He only pays a fraction if any at all—and he says I shouldn't have been there! I feel there's no need to travel after dark, its not safe and it's against insurance policy (it does state in some insurance policies that you are only insured to travel between sunrise and sunset). If you are in a hurry moor the boat and catch a bus!