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Yesterday I looked out of the window to see a large boat travelling up the wrong side of the road.

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bellinghman.livejournal.com

There's a right side of the road for a boat?

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muninnhuginn

The right way is the one that involves the demolition of the least number of traffic signals.

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bellinghman.livejournal.com

I'm trying to reconcile the concept of right with any signals being demolished.

Do tell, by the way.

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muninnhuginn

It's actually a fairly regular occurrence--normally at school pickup time (great excuse for being late for one's offspring, being caught on the wrong side of the road waiting for a boat to pass). Huge cruisers sat on equally large lorries crawl up Newmarket Road, having presumeably made their way through town somehow, escorted by several vans from the shipyard and the odd police car. At some point along the road--I think at the Coldham's Lane junction, they seem to need to swap from the left to the right (it's either to protect the various sets of lights or maybe bacause the road bridge at Barnwell Junction is wider on the "wrong" side). I did see one further up once that had tangled with some lights: the tolerances for the entire run are pretty fine.

I assume it happens this way to avoid sending the boats along the motorway.

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armb.livejournal.com

I fairly often see them parked in the layby here (http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=52.212156,0.206444&spn=0.003129,0.008143&t=h&om=1).

Yesterday I met one (with police escort) heading along the B1102 towards Swaffham Prior. It was on the right side of the road, but on half the wrong side of the road as well, so the police car ahead was driving along the middle of the road making us pull off to the side. (Presumably it was the same one you saw.)

> I assume it happens this way to avoid sending the boats along the motorway.

Yes (or at least the A14). Possibly because there are bridges they won't fit under, possibly just because completely blocking a small road is considered better than largely blocking a large road. Snarls up Newmarket town centre something rotten at times.

Why the answer of "build the boatyard close to the water" isn't a better one, I don't know.