Creek Crawling

[alec]

The creek crawling experience is a wonderful addition to all other types of sailing. When crawling about at low water, I have often seen some horrible sights that could seriously impale some poor soul or do serious damage to one’s bottom. Have any others seen such sights ?

Should they be left as marine archeology or should Harbour Authorities / Crown Estates do something about it ?




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[Mirelle]

Good point. I have'nt actually seen very many such objects, but I have gone bump on something very hard, at or very near to low water Springs, a few times. In the case of my local river, I am starting to get a mental idea of where some of these nasties are.

I doubt if the local authorities or the Crown Commissioners can be bothered. The former sometimes get excited about "eyesores" and in the case of my local district council they were daft enough to hire a helicopter to try and clear some remains of old boats (if you ever had doubts about the competence of Local Government, doubt no more!) but debris lying below low water mark is unlikely to interest them, I fancy.

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[Forbsie]

Last night I spent 3 hours with SeasprayIII watching the River Thames disappear. At the bottom of the wall at Twickenham there were huge concrete blocks, bits of wall, a bicycle, skateboard and fishing rod. By 7.30pm I could pretty much walk to by boat on the other side of the river. I'm sure that we'll clear some of the crap over the next 3 weeks but we'd really need a bulldozer to make much difference.

In planning for next years draw-off, we are going to persuade the owners of our local funeral boat to encourage mourners to throw coins overboard before they depart to scatter the ashes. Could pay for the damage caused by draining the river or go towards the £120 cost to move boat above Teddington lock for the month.

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[Rabbie]

The farthest upstream parts of the Tamar are horrific at near low water. I 'creek-crawled' up there about 10 years ago in my West Wight Potter (draught 4"!) and the amount of scrap metal is frightening. There was everything from old railway lines to mineworking metal trucks etc, dumped, no doubt from worked out mines which overlook the area. Beware indeed if you visit Gunnislake near LW!.

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