Recent content by thames cruiser

Thanks. I'll try that. If it works, then another fail by EA, since all I did was copy-paste the email address listed in their instructions!

Having completed my response to the EA Registration Charges Consultation and submitted it to the email address they advertised, I received the following: Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: enquiries@environmentagency.gov.uk (enquiries@environmentagency.gov.uk) Your message...

IMHO (which may be incorrect)... EA have taken their time and gone to great lengths to create safe working environments around locks for their staff, and Customer revenues have continued to come in uninterrupted by COVID (much aggrieved by licence paying boaters), so how can the EA justify...

Apparently, the closure last Monday (31st) was due to remote heat sensors being activated on the bridge, which under standing rules meant that PLA had to close the bridge to river traffic until after the sensors were checked by engineers. I understand that this is now changed (it was becoming...

Transited outbound on Tuesday, after being forced to abort and return to Teddington Monday (remote alarms closed bridge). The process worked very well. PLA very helpful, but note well that passages are being e being closely policed. It’s clear that communication between the pLA and H&F council...

Also about to retire, this month I think.

An influential and reliable lobbying group would be a good place to start. Do you know of any?

For those that do the Facebook thing you might want to see some of the over 180 comments on the EA Thames Waterways Team Facebook page. Makes for some interesting reading, and of course there are no replies from the EA! Environment Agency River Thames Waterways Team

And broke again today, but thankfully again all sorted now.

Wasn’t the TVM arrangement meant to be a limited duration ‘trial’?

I think all the officials mooring signs now look very similar. Whether they be EA moorings, TVM managed moorings, or other privately managed moorings the signs all have a very similar layout and colour etc. So at a distance look the same until you get up close to read them. Which for my aged...

I can’t reply for PeterBoater re the handset, but the VHF Radio is still for sale on eBay. Now reduced to £60, +p&p. I also have a non-working full function handset, if Peter’s work8nh handset no l9nger available - the Curley cord has perished (common issue), so a new cord would need to be...

+1 to help from Bray. The RCC post is a good one too, and perhaps something BCC could consider in th future.

Valid points. But they manage with big boats at Penton Hook, using fixed crane to lift and a trailer to move and chock, so should be simple enough to replicate this at Bray too. They could even buy a second hand ‘normal’ mobile crane, utilising it in the fixed mode (ie with stabiliser legs out)...

I have a working Raymarine DSC VHF Radio for sale on eBay. £75. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raymarine-215e-VHF-DSC-Radio-/253147800555?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT