BOATERS Gill and Phil Fisher, cruising the Huddersfield Narrow Canal from their moorings at Aspley Basin were forced to moor at Milnsbridge after a lock stoppage forced them to reverse to the moorings there.
But the residents of the canalside flats objected to their generator, banging on the boat's roof, shouting at them and one woman coming to the boat to complain, it reaching such a state they were 'hounded' off the moorings.
No-go area
The pair had no option but to reverse to the Milnsbridge moorings where flats had being constructed by the waterway, as the navigation was blocked by a lock out of action.
They maintain that their generator was a quiet one, and just used as an excuse as the residents have made the mooring a 'no-go' area for boats to moor.
We don't want you here
The couple told The Huddersfield Daily Examiner:
"A woman said 'we don't want you here, you will have to move' then five or six residents in the flats above the canal opened their windows and all stared down at us, with one woman coming and complaining, but I said the canal had been here longer than the flats.
"But with what had happened the night before we felt intimidated and upset so we decided to leave. It makes me wonder how many other boaters get intimidated."
Not isolated
This is by no means an isolated incidence, as others have complained of the attitude of the residents of new flats and houses built by the waterways, that is becoming a problem for boaters.
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