Burway Heads, Laleham this Sunday

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I know it's rowers but who ever is using the river, be it kayakers, NB's punters or rowers, I love seeing the river busy.

It can be particularly entertaining seeing one cox speaking to their crew in a quiet controlled fashion and another screaming apoplecticley.
 
Mind the sea-horses

Geoffs said:
Sounds like a nightmare on the lower Thames this weekend. Glad I can do my 30 knots in the relative tranquility of Studland and Swanage bays. :)
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Nightmare? Nightmare???? We love this stuff!

Well I do - I agree with Doolittle, it's great to see activities, of all sorts.

The more the merrier.

It should be nice and quiet on the South Coast with you doing your 30 knots (along with the other few hundred), the saily boats shouting at you, the container ships, the oil tankers, the fishermen, the lobster pots, the dinghy races... just mind the sea-horse spotters (-:

R
 
Slightly jealous, but looking forward to August bank holiday and a nice blast to Boulogne for a few days, ideal cruise speed on ours about 34 knots, lovely. As weather will no doubt be pants have naturally got a back up plan of Burnham on Crouch, love that place, a hidden gem I reckon and a cracking restaurant in town as well to give the frogs a run for their money
 
I'm looking forward to August Bank Holiday too ..... because i'm rota'd off that day ..... ;)

Seriously , if you want to see a busy pair of locks in action , come and hang around Tedders on the tide of the August Bank Holiday.
 
Came through quite Sunday and looks as though the regatta was pretty well finished, saw you chilling out in the Gazebo as we went past. What I was surprised with however, was the race boat following the rowers was not showing the required penant which means they are allowed to exceed the speed limit whilst undertaking their rowing duties, and in fact had a visitor license! As far as I am concerned, that boat has no right to exceed the speed limit and should be treated the same as any leisure craft, correct me if I am wrong. This boat was kicking up a fair ol' wash as well, and noticed that some of the permanent boats moored on the river bank were being bounced around a bit, so a case of double standards?
 
Hi there ,

Who is that post directed to ?

You would need to speak to the Nav Office about that . I'm not really in a position to answer. We don't check for pennants at the lock , nor can we keep an eye on what is going on because we are over a mile downstream.
 
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Sorry Tedders, not meant for you, just a general rant/ moan really, as I thought these accompanying boats had 'numbered' penants painted onto the boats. I would imagine someone here might have an idea about these.
 
bradtarga34 said:
Came through quite Sunday and looks as though the regatta was pretty well finished, saw you chilling out in the Gazebo as we went past. What I was surprised with however, was the race boat following the rowers was not showing the required penant which means they are allowed to exceed the speed limit whilst undertaking their rowing duties, and in fact had a visitor license! As far as I am concerned, that boat has no right to exceed the speed limit and should be treated the same as any leisure craft, correct me if I am wrong. This boat was kicking up a fair ol' wash as well, and noticed that some of the permanent boats moored on the river bank were being bounced around a bit, so a case of double standards?
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That's interesting Brad. They used our run-about to put the buoys out at 6am that morning and my son helped them gather them in the evening too. I'll ask the question about the pennant.

One of the umpires twin hulled Cat was badly damaged on the trailer (caught a kerb) and the roller embedded itself into the hull on the way to this event so thy were a boat down hence the race back to the start by the umpires!

I've had a good trawl of the net to find the appropriate pennant but there is nothing on the various rowing sites that I can find. What does it look like?

We could all fly one and create merry hell!! ;)
 
Spent all day being rocked by the boat in question. But at least they were taking it a bit slower going back to the start.
Perhaps the EA should at least put in an appearance once during the event.
Lots of boats had to take avoiding action due to competitors going up to the start taking up all the available fairway despite calls from officials.
 
It's a light blue colour with a number on it, looks like a self adhesive decal, that is attached to the boat. I will see if I can find some specific info. It is on the Thames User Guide, page 3. It's a pdf document so can't figure out to cut and paste, if you can actually do it. I believe a boat has to be 'wash' tested by the EA to make sure it doesn't produce excessive wash at speed, I doubt the boat I saw yesterday would have passed...
 
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Wow, 34 knots cruise that's flying. Must have some good injuns. I was on a 34 a while back with a pair of d4/260's and that max'd at 36.

I can do 35 flat out, my GPS shows a max of 36.7, but that must have been down tide with a wind behind! If the sea is flat I'll cruise at 30, 3000rpm, but my comfortable norm is 25.
 
Yep, she has no shortage of ponies, got the KAD300's, 2 x 285 hp. With a lowish fuel and water load, but full bar, can get around the 41 knot mark. The 'down' side to the fast cruise is that there aren't too many other boats that match the speed when cruising in company, but we do tend to go away with our friends in their new Targa 38 with 2 x D6 300's, who is always trying to out pace us, but has yet to succeed!
 
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