I HAVE been boating for well over 20 years, writes Dom Grant.
And have at least two months a year cruising and am one of those that don't have my wife doing all the work winding the paddles whilst I sit doing nothing, that I am remarking upon to show that I have wound literally thousands of paddles of all varieties.
Never managed to overwind
I have never managed to 'overwind' a paddle that Canal & River Trust are now using as a stoppage and I have been around the marina and asked others who regularly cruise and neither have they as it seems it is impossible to overwind so all that can be realised is that it is yet another excuse like the many 'vandal' excuses we get and that I for one don't believe as since mobile phones came out vandalism is a thing of the past as in the old days I saw plenty hanging around but never these days, as too busy with their mobiles.
The trust should just get on with the work and stop all these daft reasons for stoppages as we all know the system is deteriorating around us.