Hire Boats
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Hirers are not pirates! Half of our boating career has been
spent on hire boats. It is the way that many of us start and
probably the place that many of us make our mistakes. The briefings that hire boat operators give are usually very good but half an hour, or even an hour's tuition, will never make you an expert helmsman, especially since you are probably in a hurry to get on with your two-week holiday. So novices are going to make mistakes. The mark of the Considerate Boater is to expect that and to make allowances and to politely help wherever you can. (Take care with the last bit as few of us like being given advice). Some private boaters fail to realise that if it wasn't for hire boats then the waterways as we know them would not exist. |
 
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