Police stopped engine noise

I was pleased to see the article by Victor Swift concerning noise from selfish boaters, but as he says you can do something about it, for I did, writes Russ  Bennett.

 

My wife and I were meeting friends at Audlem on the Shroppie and intended to stay two nights at the visitor moorings, but had to hang about until a boat eventually moved away they being so popular, but we were eventually successful and moored our boat up checking that we could stay 48 hours.

Called the police

We were moored next to the stern of one that, with the detritus on the towpath, rather led me to believe it had been there a lot longer that the allowed 48 hours. And it was just before 6pm this was borne out as its engine started. I know people have power hungry cooking appliances nowadays with 240 volt alternators, so did not bother too much, but as it was still going after 9pm I decided to do something about it, and called the local police, with two arriving in a very short space of time.

All I had as evidence besides the overpowering racket from the engine was the Waterways Rules, which clearly stated engines should he turned off at 8pm. After a little conversation they visited the boat with the noisy engine, and within a minute it was turned off.

And that was that!