Steam's up

摘要

I don't know about you but I'm not keen on driving downhill with no brakes, it doesn't fill you with confidence - rather like steering into a lock with no control over the engine. The funny thing is that, in the latter case, the boat stopped smoothly a couple of feet from Calcutt's bottom lock gates with no fuss, no drama and no input from me. If I was ungenerous, I'd say it might have been something to do with the man with his hand on the 'throttle' being 30 or so feet nearer the potential impact than me, but in reality it owed more to his skill and knowing what the steerer (yours truly) would want.