How not to use a narrowboat

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If you want to do politics please find an alternative forum where you can argue pointlessly for ever.

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Thanks Scrump, maybe they will listen to you. Please remove any further political posts.

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Tlandcruiser said:

However the entire situation could have been avoided by the guy not going for the mooring as he did see that the narrowboat heading that way, even if the other guy did not have the right of way as such,

I'm sure that if he'd known he was going to be rammed he would have conceded the place, yes. If someone beats you to a car parking space you have to be a psycho to ram his car.

I suspect Mr Heywood is used to getting his own way by bullying; the cruiser owner not only stood up to him but put him firmly in the public spotlight. Note the way Heywood rewrote the event to his advantage in his subsequent piece so he could take a win.

It is sad, because we buy boats to get away from the 'madding crowd' and cocks like this - but just sometimes you find they are there too.