Recent content by Glorfindel

Anyone else noticed that Southampton seemed to have imbibed of Lewis Carrol's 'Drink Me' and suddenly become very much smaller. Halls and pontoons. All the nice little 'Thamesable' 30 footers and similar seemed to have vanished as well as a considerable amount of very well known names: Broom...

Surely the primary reason that the EA employs the 'Lockies' is to manage the weirs. 'Teddington_lock' and other constantly refer to this (not knocking 'Teddington_lock' whose posts I always enjoy) but the locks are their secondary job and if the weirs call then the lock goes onto 'self...

By mistake, and then a lot of re-tries. R click picture. Select INSPECT ELEMENTS. Kill the new window with the top right X. Click on the picture and it works! Dunno - said it was a mistake!

Thanks for the photo of our 30DS on the Goring wall - we were obviously in the J Barleycorn!

Welcome - hope to see you up around Reading some time (you'll find a nicer class of boaters higher up ! ! !)

Never mind the abacus our car sat nav only gives us miles per hour so we are staying with 5 of them

Our Princess 30 DS has twin Volvo Petrols (AQ 151Bs) on outdrives and we have no problem maintaining a normal course - previously have had single shaft boats on the Broads. The twins make close manoeuvring a piece of cake. The only river problem is that the planning hull makes for quite severe...

thamesS23 posts a notice which should concern us all and the forum replies with clever clever points scoring. Shame on you all

CCF good - commercial bad. So that is O.K. then - thanks people

Lovely Saturday afternoon above Sonning Lock. 'Enhanced' by lots of gunfire and shouting from the Blue School. Is this a new development or a one off?

Dredging Abingdon Said area was being dredged last week - got pictures but no idea how to attach them !

A few years ago we bought our boat from the brokers at T & K and on transfer of ownership happily headed down river for an overnight at Henley. Arrived at Shiplake where the Lockie ( now retired but very popular when he was there) pointed out that our licence was two years out of date. Luckily...

Not having tested my buoyancy for many years I always wear a life jacket when mooring and locking - many folks therefore assume that I'm a Lockie - does get a bit frustrating as one does try not to be rude

OOOps - thinking of fireworks - Catherine Wheel of course. Sorry

Can't let you get away with the 'No Pubs' comment for Goring The John Barlycorn is approx. three minutes walk from the down-stream end of the wall and the Fountain another two minutes .