Amazing drone pic of barges @Hoo Ness
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Triassic
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I can't believe you actually managed to type that with a straight face......
ianc1200
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Concerto
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The liveaboards all discharge in the river and most of it collects in Hoo Marina. There is one Hoo Ness YC member who berthed in the marina whilst renovating a boat. He dropped a tool in the mud and just plunged his arm in to retreive it. Resulted in a hospital stay of over 12 months due to sepeticaemia from the germs in the mud.
oldgit
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Livaboards dumping raw sewage into the creek has been going on for some considerable time, nobody is prepared to do anything about it,everyone either stating its not our problem or its somebody elses.
Peel Ports and SW should be doing something but do not expect change in the near future especially after our exit from the EU which was responsible for forcing the UK Gov to clean up the the water quality in the Medway.
The big clean up started when Snodland papermill,a notorious polluter of the upper Medway was bought out by SMURFIT a Dublin company and subject to EU regulations., SMURFIT built a filter station to clean up the discharge into the river.
The EU legislation also forced SW to stop dumping raw sewage into Otterham Creek at Motley Hill.
Paddy Layback
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Hi oldgit, thanks for the interesting info, thanks ianc for the link.
Everone needs somewhere to live, and I have lived aboard for many years myself on all sorts, from massive trawlers down to narrowboats, but 100's of litres of random poop dumped in one place every day can't be healthy! I presume the operator has planning permission etc.
I dont know anyone who lives on those houseboats to go and visit, but I bet it hums at low water
Everone needs somewhere to live, and I have lived aboard for many years myself on all sorts, from massive trawlers down to narrowboats, but 100's of litres of random poop dumped in one place every day can't be healthy! I presume the operator has planning permission etc.
I dont know anyone who lives on those houseboats to go and visit, but I bet it hums at low water
Capt Popeye
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I recall the area in the 60s when the Hoo area was divided up into the Houseboat area, the residential Caravan area, the commercial companies areas and the Yacht Club, oh and The Barge Operating company, was it the Rochester and something at the far down river side of the Hoo complex.
Very interesting times indeed looking back!
Very interesting times indeed looking back!
oldgit
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Probably Lapthorn. ?
London and Rochester Trading were up at Strood which morphed into Crescent Shipping which disappeared into a Hays Wharf conglomerate....
One or more of Ted Heaths yachts were fitted out in yard at Vicarage Lane,the hulls were moulded by Tyler of Tonbridge.Same yard used to make spars for barges and yachts.
Owner was Charles Manley. Shipwright.
Remember him bending ribs in steel tube heated by a scrapwood bonfire left burning overnight.
Was on the tug that towed the concrete ship Violetta into Hoo.Memory seems to recall that she was scuttled and sat on the bottom rather than floating as stated in HSR.
http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=18204.0
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