Brayman
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Reged: 27/11/2006
Posts: 1227
Loc: Bucks
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But the TVR is full of kind gentlefolk......... and the YBW Forum burgee will be there.
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ARCMarineEveryman
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Reged: 06/12/2005
Posts: 426
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"and still I was screamed at by a coaching boat,sans coachees, which over-took me near Putney. Can't win can you."
I was crewing a Weymouth 42 round from Ramsgate one Saturday, got to Chelsea Marina pontoon, stayed overnight them came up to Richmond when the tide vwas very low. Through Putney on a Sunday morning the rowers were out in force, such that two of us were on the front. A pair came diagonally across our bows. We went into reverse and warned the rowers, and both the male and the female let off a torrent of foul abuse, against us who were going in reverse to avoid them. We got up to Richmond Lock and had to wait for the lock to open. Suddenly an egg landed on the boat, followed by several more. The same rowers were on the bank, having driven round to catch us there.
It's noticable that rowers seem to think it's alright for them to speed & have fun. I've seen the coaching boat of Wallingford rowing club used for jollies at high speed when there's no coaching going on.
I slow down for rowers in my own boat, or go out of gear etc, but never have had a cheery wave or thanks, and tobe honest have virtually no sympathy at all for the rowing community who cause most of the problems by their bad manners.
IanC
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Richard_Shead
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Reged: 14/08/2007
Posts: 1145
Loc: ated here
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yep it needs to leave my hall soon before I am told to leave my hall.......
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No_Regrets
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Reged: 09/07/2007
Posts: 1283
Loc: Welwyn Garden City, Herts UK.
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Then show them what a real wake looks like then... 
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steve_clayton
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Reged: 22/05/2003
Posts: 2483
Loc: king; I did RAF training there
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Richard, what about pinning this thread?
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Richard_Shead
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Reged: 14/08/2007
Posts: 1145
Loc: ated here
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Not my call I am afraid but i will speak to Dan in the morning.
Thanks
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KBT
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Reged: 22/01/2007
Posts: 1538
Loc: France
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everyone should have stopped and waited for the next tide so the chaps can practice wowing for a wowing wace 
No, surely the offenders should display seamanship and appropriate consideration for other vessels, moored or underway.
I'm sure you would yourself, wouldn,t you?
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china
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Reged: 30/07/2007
Posts: 17
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please dont get those rowers mixed up with us canoists and kayakers, we are aa friendly lot.
those rowers are unfriendly to us too. what a bunch of s***bags. never mind it could be worse, you could be them. imagine having to live their lives or be in their head with all that snobbery and money earning pressure.
we go out on the water to relax and a lot of them go out on the water to be competative and to be realy stressfull.
we just stick to the collision regs and try to keep out of their way.
if it happens again, you can always get on the vhf and tell the harbour master or marine support and report them. they definatly deserve it.
i would want to rip their heads off.
have a nice week.
alex.
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Gavi
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Reged: 01/06/2006
Posts: 1545
Loc: Sunny Staines
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It all makes me sad really. My first introduction to The Thames was as a member of a rowing club when living in Putney. I wish I'd kept it up - I'd be a bit slimmer than now 
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No_Regrets
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Reged: 09/07/2007
Posts: 1283
Loc: Welwyn Garden City, Herts UK.
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China, I have found Kayak and Canoe bods extraordinarily friendly, and a great laugh too.
Many of them give me the thumbs up if I give them a short burst of throttle to create a little entertainment in the form of skiff-sinking wake (Easy to spot...usually playing in the last boats wake!) and love to chat in locks, or raft up to my bathing platform which has a whacking great handle on one side!
Respect to you guys 
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