Angus wrote:Bit quicker than what you're used to......
trashbat wrote:I liked driving (?) a narrowboat. Mostly it's slow motion drifting whilst powering through bends.
A little like a car, if you take your eye off the ball for a few seconds at some inopportune moment then you'll probably crash, except the crash isn't immediate, it's about 30 seconds later.
Try and separate steering and acceleration, see how you get on
swatchways wrote:Aw - but it's got no sails - nor yours Martin. How do they move??!
Planning, planning, planning, and remember you have no brakes! Was it good fun?
TheInsanity1234 wrote:I've "driven" canal boats before, and they were broad-beam so a bit of a tight squeeze through some of the smaller locks, but as someone said up there, it's completely different from driving since you have to do drifts to navigate tight corners, and crashes tend to happen a minute after you make the mistake, not a second!
The other thing that's weird is how you have to push the tiller to the left to make the boat go right, and vice-versa.
Another thing is how things happen so slowly, such as you want the boat to go right slightly, so you push the tiller to the left a bit, and nothing happens, so you push it even further left, then suddenly the boat goes to the right very much, so you have to quickly push the tiller to the right, and so on, thus making a pretty zig-zagging wake
Having said that, it's much easier (for me) to steer a boat using a tiller than a steering wheel.
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