Fined £780 for speeding

[Guest]

Only £780 Fine???

Irrespective of whether on land or water, a speed limit is there for a given reason. If you exceed the limit, don't get upset by the fine!

It remains a fact that the wash created by power driven vessels can damage riverbanks and wildlife.

Keep your speed down, and you will not get fined...it is hardly rocket science!

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[KevB]

Can\'t have it both ways

How about banning Motorboats from the rivers altogether, but then the loss of revenue would really screw up the river authorities. The benefits gained by motorboaters in the way of funding which helps improve the wild habitat far exceeds any negative points such as erosion.

 

[jfm]

Nonsense, john_c

john c that's nonsense. In civilised society punishment must fit the crime. You cannot sensibly defend a penalty on the grounds "don't commit the crime then you wont have to suffer the penalty" otherwise you could justify lethal injection as a penalty for not paying your TV licence (after all, if you paid your licence you wouldn't have to die)

 

[mtb]

Re: Bank errosion Thames

As a lad while fishing the stretch along Athens ( opposite the race course at Windsor .
The whole bank slipped ,with me on it .I some how managed to scrabble back to firm ground !!!.
Year in year out the new concrete banks get washed by the current and end up slipping. I wonder what effect the new channel will have on the speed of flow along that stretch.

As for those who get done for speeding HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
good serve em right .Speeding like that should also include banning them and the craft from the water,then with huge costs and problems caused re some where for the boat HA then they'd think twice .

I was working on a narrow boat at the Londoners Apprentice ( tidal Thames ) as the tide was just coming up
Some bxxxxxxx went whizzing by and caused the boat to keel right over ,the ropes just held it .The boat was not flat bottomed and had a fair dead rise . I had to get in and jack the boat back up again or risk losing it to the incoming tide. So good on the Broads authority hope others now follow suite
Mick

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I want a big steel ex trawler / tug v/cheep or swap for tug

 

[Guest]

Re: No. Should have been more

When I hear the word "wildlife" I reach for my shotgun!

 

[Guest]

Some years ago we were moored at Horning on the Broads, we were in the pub, just came out to see hire boat full of women hit the bow scrape down the side then hit the bank the other side and go, we shouted along with about 20 other boat owners for them to stop but they kept going, so we cast off I hot pursuit, Princess 33 about 15 knots flat out, we nearly caught them but we were then being pusued by a Broads authority launch, we radioed him to tell him what had gone off, he said we were to slow down and he would deal with it, at his request to them they still carried on regardless not looking back at all, so that was that a waste of time.

We got the hireboat companies name and duly sent in our claim, by the time it was sorted they had gone into liquidation and we got sweet FA, thats justce for you a hire boat company operating with no insurance, as we later found out the company filed for liquidation before the incident, point is what more important, boats on hire with no insurance or a bit of justice in the first place, if we were able to be on the scene then we may have got someting out of the driver of the boat, but because of Mr jobs worth in his launch we had to slow down, hence never made contact.

Paul js.

 

[byron]

Re: Bank erosion Thames

So what you are saying Mick is you were using a craft unsuitable for the waters you were navigating, I suspect the Passenger Launches too didn't fare thee well ;-)

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[mtb]

Re: Bank erosion Thames

No the boat was able re the actual tidal river,what was wrong was the boat had only about one and a half 'ft of water under the hull ,not quite enough to float but when the dip head flew by in a rush his wake did the harm as first the boat lifted then rolled with the wake.
Having said that when I did the London ring in it, and came out to head upstream from Limehouse it certainly did bob about when large craft went by .
Oh by the way Byron ta for the light duty stuff,no one has added re pilotage or other stuff ,shame realy I'd have been able after a few years work to travel any where with that boat
Mick

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/boats
I want a big steel ex trawler / tug v/cheep or swap for tug

 

[kimhollamby]

Ummmm...sorry but I guess if that's the comparison then I've not heard of a helmsman getting jailed for dangerous wash. Not getting into the morals of this one but suspect the penalty for killing someone on the roads is a lot more severe than 40 quid.

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[Guest]

So what you are saying is...

that you consider speeding to be perfectly acceptable? If a person can be banned from driving for 6 months and fined £1,000 for speeding, surely purely a fine of £780 for speeding on a river is quite reasonable.

Your logic of a lethal injection for non payment of television licence however is coming close to my own thinking of the death penalty for parking on Double Yellows!

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[Guest]

You\'re right!

That's the right attitude! There is no reason to speed on such waters.

 

[KevB]

Re: You\'re right!

No one is saying he was right to speed but the fine was excessive.

 

[jfm]

Nope

Nope. My post had nothing to do with speeding, didn't even mention the subject.

 

[Guest]

So....

What in the name of christendom are you wittering on about man???

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[byron]

Re: So....

Wittering? isn't that near Chichester?

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