River Canal Rescue will welcome Nuggler's comment yesterday about his morse cable breaking:
Looked like the gearbox control cable had broken - just like the throttle cable earlier this year.
A call to RCR (River Canal Rescue) elicited the news that my subscription was two years out of date. Shock horror! So for £50 extra, in addition to a silver subscription (£105) I could rejoin and still obtain help.
... Thinking about it, really I could have got away spending less by finding a cable and getting a taxi to go and pick it up, but I really did intend to maintain RCR membership, so don't feel hard done by. You never know when you really need it.
That's happened to me too - twice. The first time, I called out Streethay and they drove 100 miles and it cost me £240 (in 1999 dollars). Which was fair enough.
The second time it happened in Birmingham, and on a cold January Sunday night in 2004 RCR drove from Nottingham and it came as part of the subscription, plus the cost of the cable. Which was fairer still.
How soon before I need to renew my membership? Dear me, I've no one to to blame but myself.
More to life seems to have need their services as well, it is obviously a valuable service.
Posted by: iain smith | Monday, 15 September 2008 at 01:15 AM