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The TMBA are preparing a comprehensive guide to the EA mooring locations which will include aerial images showing the extent , W3W locations, approximate mooring capacities etc. which we hope to make available later next week. The exercise is revealing considerable information about the...

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As of 0950 this morning, 15th January, all reaches are displaying Red Boards.

2020 updates for alerting other YBW users to Thames River conditions and other urgent information for river users. Any registered forum user can post a message on this thread (and this thread only for reasons that will become clear) if there is a sudden change in conditions or other urgent...

Thank you for notifying the forum of this special offer for new members signing up between now and 31st March. Boaters of all flavours really do need to wake up to the serious implications of the continuing funding crisis affecting the non tidal river. We will shortly receive more detailed...

The EA have been making it quite clear for some time that, whilst they will continue to provide assisted passage with lock staff in attendance as funding permits, they have no statutory duty to do so. Get used to it as it is quite clear that there is simply not enough money in the pot. Whilst...

This is not about availability of out of hours public power. The EA have published a Customer Charter and Lock Keeping Service Targets for 2016/17 which you can read here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/river-thames-customer-charter The Lock Keeping Service Targets clearly lay down...

The TMBA and other river user groups are increasingly concerned by the continuing decline in the availability of staff to assist passage through locks on the non tidal Thames. River users are invited to assist us in gathering evidence of locks unmanned during normal duty hours to support our...

The EA have now responded to complaints regarding the regatta at Marlow:

There is already a National Navigation User Forum - NNUF - made up of representatives from all the regional forums such as the Thames Navigation User Forum - TNUF - of which the TMBA is now a member. Whilst users try hard they have no real teeth as the Forums have no statutory powers, they are...

Last autumn, in response to the EA consultation re charges for 2014, the TMBA called for a review of EA Navigation Charges. http://www.tmba.org.uk/20-september-2013-tmba-calls-for-review-of-ea-navigation-charges/ This call for a root and branch overhaul of the charging structure and the way...

The EA have asked us and other river based organisations to assist in promulgating the following notice regarding a review of River Thames Accommodations which is is currently under way. http://www.tmba.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Accomodations-licensing-review-Customer-advice-03-02-141.pdf