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Has anyone heard what's wrong with it? Card reader or pump? EA website says out of action until further notice, anyone heard if/when it will be working again?

I hope a change of council improves Kingston from a boaters perspective.

The constructions on top are the result of years of skip hunting. Its only a matter of time before one of his hotels catches fire and when that happens there'll be questions asked as to how his business was allowed to operate for so long.

He's been on Queens Pomenade for at least a year and has been joined by a collection of unlicensed liveaboards who've learned that where he goes, free residential moorings are to be had. His two slumboats at Hurst Park are still there too. Nothing short of confiscation will put an and to his...

Out of action again

Could someone who's been there more recently than me or had a lift out confirm? Do they shovel everything they jet wash off into containers or does it still get blown back into the water?

On a side note, a member of the EA licencing team told me they think they'll be back in the office by early 2023, so next year some of us might get a licence that wasn't printed on an ink jet.

I saw a boat lifted at Shepperton a few years ago, absolute encrusted in them. Lift out staff jet washed the lot off and blasted them back into the marina. If I moored there I'd be fuming. Maybe they've changed their practices since there was a change of management? I certainly hope so.

I always thought of the little Freeman as the VW campervan of the river.

I did Marlow on hand wind only, new years day a few years ago. It warmed me up!

There is an episode of The Sweeney, where they chase through the boat yard at Penton Hook when RLM's are being built in the 70's. Sorry, can't name the episode but the IMDB database or Google may bear fruit

Over a dozen years of chasing him through the courts and all they've done him for is mooring in the lock cut. He's still operating those boats from Hurst Park and Queens Promenade

I've submitted my response. Nearly died of boredom while filling it in, but job done.

A small cruiser at Broom Park was stolen a couple of weeks ago. It hadn't moved for years so the thief got it started by stealing a switch from another boat and a can of fresh fuel. It turned up, abandoned at Teddington Lock with two outboards inside and stinking of spilt fuel. The owner...

Is 'Hope' the great big thing that's occupying the 24hr visitor mooring downstream from The Anglers in Walton?