Science and boat wrangling
The August holiday weekend is nearly here, the weather forecast is good, and the canals are crammed with boats, especially the stretch from Napton to Braunston where the Oxford and the Grand Union are the same canal. Most of them are OK, but a few of them are driven by beginners who don’t know how to steer. That’s by way of explaining why we were hit twice today once by a boat coming the other way round a corner who…