Fourumite gets letter published in MBM

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Yes, it's true.

Apollo has written to MBM about the shallow water by the Brocas in Windsor.(P5, November 2009).

The EA deny all responsibility.......
 
Blimey how come you have MBM already, thats early!

I just asked Sally Coffey to follow the thread on here at the time if you remember it?

Brayman, time for another yawn.....
 
I am a subscriber!

Only 116 pages this month....

Nice bit about the diver in Boulters Lock finding a holdall full of golf trophies on the bottom of the lock!.... anyone on here lost them?
 
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Just read it, well done, a question worth asking but the answer was predictable. This we are only responsible for the middle third of the fairway excuse keeps coming out whether its overgrown trees, dredging or any other obstruction. So presumably if I navigate outside of the middle third I don't have to pay my license fee?
 
un commercial EA

They also failed to acknowledge that if there are only EA moorings that are deep enough to use there is not much point in keeping a larger boat on the river so they will lose license revenue.
It might be the riparian owner's responsibility to look after the river bank and river bed, but not much incentive to them unless EA persue the riparian owners and force them to do it. I have a sneeking suspicion that the R owners might get a tad pissed off, get together and fight back?!!
I don't see dear old Byron offering to dredge his 200 metres out of the goodness of his heart, so I think the EA view on dredging is as fatuous and un-commercial as many of their other "policies".
 
"I don't see dear old Byron offering to dredge his 200 metres out of the goodness of his heart"

He doesn't have too - he has friends to do that for him.:)
It is nice to be nice :D
 
pande said:
"I don't see dear old Byron offering to dredge his 200 metres out of the goodness of his heart"

He doesn't have too - he has friends to do that for him.:)
It is nice to be nice :D
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Wish those 'friends' would come along and repair the bank etc. ;)
Holes, planks, supports and the like.
 
byron said:
It is.. I gotta a firm doing some remedial work this winter but I am only making do and mending, I have no intention of spending thousands of sovs.
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Hope they will be wearing safety lines and life jackets as the river rises and it turns to underwater construction .

I shall watch from a safe distance as I enjoy finestyle cooking :D:D
 
Bilgediver said:
Hope they will be wearing safety lines and life jackets as the river rises and it turns to underwater construction .

I shall watch from a safe distance as I enjoy finestyle cooking :D:D
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This guy walked off a job because of being forced to wear too much craparoo. He felt he couldn't work freely and was too restricted.

Hope you enjoyed your meal at the Beetle the other day it was nice to shout at you across the river ;)
 
This dredging issue isn't going to go away, is it?

I have more reason than most to complain about shallow areas, both in the fairway and bankside. I don't know where the minimum depth standards for the fairway came from or when they were introduced but presumably there are some issues with lock sills that dictate maximum drafts regardless of channel depth?

However much we would like the EA to engage in a more pro-active approach to dredging, the fact remains that without significant increases in funding they are not likely to do so. Such funding can only come from two sources a) increased take in licence fees and other direct income and b) additional government or local government funding.

So, I don't regard this as mismanagement by the EA which only manages the resources it is allotted by DEFRA and can anyone honestly tell me they believe additional funds of the scale needed are likely to be made available ??? Pigs, wings, fly etc etc etc.

Similarly, landowners, the Brocas or wherever won't spend this sort of money because there is no incentive for them to do so.

Nope, we are just going to have to adjust our approach to boating on the non tidal Thames - short boats, wide boats, shallow boats - and my first adjustment will be to minimise draft by maintaining much lower levels of fuel and water in my tanks for routine cruising.
 
or balance money spent on "Health and Safety" and "flashy lock moorings" with more basic stuff required to run the river.....

As much as I like the new moorings at Hurley, they cost half a million and really the old moorings were useable as they were.....

Maybe even cut the glossy magazine and web sites and spend this money on basics too.

SOrry broken record and time for Brayman to yawn again....
 
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