Recent content by oldgit

None. Gallions Closed South Dock at the arse end of nowhere. Lime House . Very reluctant to accept vistors unless you are 60ft long and 3ft wide. West India .Large groups and Rallys only if you are the ATYC or cough up £+1 K or so privately to get that monster lock open. You can moor mid...

+1 Get the lying on your back awkward pig of a job bits over and done with first, while you still have the strength, keeness and and some interest left. Wondering why you did not pay somebody to do this soon sets in, in theory should get easier as you go up the hull. Have on occassion been...

Have stayed in Limehouse, West India, South Dock and Chelsea Harbour, plus those moorings just upstream and somewhere else abit further up. If your only going to do once, or rarely, especially if you have your family aboard, only one location really cuts the mustard and its right in the middle...

Most of the boats there are yachts with keels, Mobos tend not to have these and far more likely to be affected. Once spent a couple of hours on the moorings at Hermitage with every single fender out and every last warp trying to damp down the movement. It was only £ 25 quid and night and after...

Not worried about sleeping at night due the dredgers coming in and out 24/7 to the aggregate yard next door, all the passing wash from the UBERs, they have special dispensation to exceed the local speed limit , Tugs pulling those rubbish barges , the trip boats going down to the barrier with...

H,mm we have 80 Mobos on our moorings, not one of which is as good as mine and 80 Know - it - all skippers to argue with regards... just about anything really. We have 10 boats off to St Kats and 15 going up to Burnham on Mud, over Easter the average age of the skippers is probably at least...

The one we followed was called "Bosphorus" ?

Suspect some on here think Capt Bligh was a bit WOKE :)

Been doing it for several decades regards MoBos on a set of drying blocks. Its all still attached the following year. It also gives the fouling something to hang onto ?

Have used everything over the last 7 decades starting with a galvanised bucket, when every gentleman would usually discreetly do a No1 over the side even when moored and not so discreetly when under way. The main difficulty underway being desperately hanging on with one hand and trying to...

On Gods own Waterway Ye Thames. .......so there you are on the only warm summer evening in the year watching the Sun slip below the horizon and with the 3rd " chilled glass" of something close by and some moron has left the speakers fitted to the fly bridge of his Gin Palace going full blast...

That the beast. The flag did cause some debate on our little vessel. Some less than happy boaters at Teddington, we were overtaken just after going through Richmond by several boats in a hurry, who wizzed off ahead and disappeared in the distance. Knowing the situation at the lock we had...

08.00. Bright and Sunny ,lock out from MDL Chatham. Sea Reach. A heady 10 knots. Tower Bridge. Very little traffic , trip boats and those annoying ribs either absent or virtually empty. Richmond Barrier. Came through Teddington via the Barge lock with about 6 other boats. One was an open...

Came through yesterday with about 6 other boats 5 from our neck of the woods and a single soul ferrying an open launch back to Oxford after officiating at the Boat Race.

All done, all working, no one was more suprised than me when it worked. Thanks Paul. Skipper was off to Burnham over Easter and now can choose either to either catch hypothermia on the fly or hide down in saloon out of the sleet and snow driven by the Bank Holiday NE winds. Spent rest of my...