Gallions point marina replaced with nothing. Great job Khan.

[Adios]

Did they close it to not put off investors. Sanitize before you gentrify. Nothing there at all now.

51°30'19.4"N 0°04'22.1"E

People in their horrible tiny 1/2 million flats want something to look at and it would have looked fine from a distance. They could have left it there but no I reckon someone wants it for themselves or there will be a deal down the line for someone to put a more expensive marina in there and the contract will go to the best palm greaser or friend of a politician. One thing for sure, it will go to men in suits, not to the sort of people who used to run it.

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Did they close it to not put off investors. Sanitize before you gentrify. Nothing there at all now.

51°30'19.4"N 0°04'22.1"E

People in their horrible tiny 1/2 million flats want something to look at and it would have looked fine from a distance. They could have left it there but no I reckon someone wants it for themselves or there will be a deal down the line for someone to put a more expensive marina in there and the contract will go to the best palm greaser or friend of a politician. One thing for sure, it will go to men in suits, not to the sort of people who used to run it.

A change in safety regulations regarding airport design may well be part of the reason. Putting something there may well require the take off distance to be reduced.
link to rule change

 

[Buck Turgidson]

A change in safety regulations regarding airport design may well be part of the reason. Putting something there may well require the take off distance to be reduced.
link to rule change

having just measured it, disregard my above. There are however height considerations that could become restrictive.

 

[Adios]

A change in safety regulations regarding airport design may well be part of the reason. Putting something there may well require the take off distance to be reduced.
link to rule change

What you linked to is just a slight change close to the runway. You can measure distance on the google map distance from end of the runway to the bridge which is about mast height and closer to the runway: 363.14 m (1,191.40 ft) which is plenty according to the wiki page.

 

[Adios]

having just measured it, disregard my above. There are however height considerations that could become restrictive.

right. no idea. I don't know if they planned to fill the dock but if they did what could they build there, not much surely

 

[Buck Turgidson]

What you linked to is just a slight change close to the runway. You can measure distance on the google map distance from end of the runway to the bridge which is about mast height and closer to the runway: 363.14 m (1,191.40 ft) which is plenty according to the wiki page.

see my above!

However, the take off flight path would go right over it and any obstacles in that area could become limiting.

 

[Concerto]

The real solution should be to reduce air pollution in London and close the City airport. I am sure there is far more polution from the aircraft using it than any savings from baning some older cars. With the efficient rail line make Southend Airport the destination of choice as it is grossly underused and would be safer than landing jets in a city centre.

Currently the only marina available to yachts is St Katherines, as Limehouse Basin is no longer available for visitors as it is run by the Canal Trust. Crazy when you consider the Cruising Association is based alongside the lock.

 

[Buck Turgidson]

The real solution should be to reduce air pollution in London and close the City airport. I am sure there is far more polution from the aircraft using it than any savings from baning some older cars. With the efficient rail line make Southend Airport the destination of choice as it is grossly underused and would be safer than landing jets in a city centre.

Currently the only marina available to yachts is St Katherines, as Limehouse Basin is no longer available for visitors as it is run by the Canal Trust. Crazy when you consider the Cruising Association is based alongside the lock.

go one better and close all the airports. Of course then no one living in London could afford a boat as the place would crumble into obscurity due to the economic downturn.

 

[laika]

Currently the only marina available to yachts is St Katherines

Given that I walk past south dock on my way to work every day I’m going to question that assertion

Do we really need a political diatribe in scuttlebutt? Im not sure the OP’s dislike of people who live in flats, the mayor of London or “men in suits” is especially relevant.

 

[xyachtdave]

I give this thread till 8.30.

 

[Corribee Boy]

If it was just one idiot I'd let it pass but you managed to bring 3 people with you on your ridiculous interpretation. I'm done here, the narrowness of "acceptable" comment is beyond a joke and is probably why the forum is practically dead with just a few regulars left, and only a few that aren't self righteous bores. I'm off.

Don't let the door hit yer ass on the way out!

 

[oldgit]

I give this thread till 8.30.

H,mm depends if the mods come in early today....most do tend to be up by lunchtime ?

 

[Mister E]

So when didt the marina close?

 

[Tranona]

Did they close it to not put off investors. Sanitize before you gentrify. Nothing there at all now.

51°30'19.4"N 0°04'22.1"E

People in their horrible tiny 1/2 million flats want something to look at and it would have looked fine from a distance. They could have left it there but no I reckon someone wants it for themselves or there will be a deal down the line for someone to put a more expensive marina in there and the contract will go to the best palm greaser or friend of a politician. One thing for sure, it will go to men in suits, not to the sort of people who used to run it.

Not sure what has happened recently to prompt this. The map reference does nothing to explain.

This is old news, dating from 2018. The GLA is redeveloping the area, and the previous leaseholders put up quite a fight, well covered here and the videos of the process are still on the web if you are interested. Can't find anything recent that would prompt the outburst in this post - but maybe he knows something - if still around and could enlighten us..
forums.ybw.com/threads/gallions-point-marina-repossessed.508904/

 

[PetiteFleur]

When did Limehouse stop having visitors? We were there about 4 yrs ago and it was fine - just had to advise them your arrival time, usually only between 8am and 4pm(from memory) just looked on the website and no mention of no visitors, but details of opening times and info for seagoing yachts and canal boats.

 

[Concerto]

When did Limehouse stop having visitors? We were there about 4 yrs ago and it was fine - just had to advise them your arrival time, usually only between 8am and 4pm(from memory) just looked on the website and no mention of no visitors, but details of opening times and info for seagoing yachts and canal boats.

Earlier this year according to the Cruising Association.

 

[PeterBoater]

This was done to death on another thread not that long ago. Basically:
Gallions closed but developers claim will be reinstated 'posher' in due course. Don't hold your breath.
West India technically open to visitors but lock/bridge charges very prohibitive unless you are a club of a large number of boats.
Limehouse technically open for visitors but since change of ownership in practice not really open to visitors. They can make more money with permanent liveaboards.
South Dock has all berths now designated as residential, ie no visitor berths, but in practice they welcome visitors, even club bookings, provided there are spare berths.
St Katharine - no change. Visitors welcome.
Chelsea - in practice not open to visitors.

 

[oldgit]

This was done to death on another thread not that long ago. Basically:
Gallions closed but developers claim will be reinstated 'posher' in due course. Don't hold your breath.
West India technically open to visitors but lock/bridge charges very prohibitive unless you are a club of a large number of boats.
Limehouse technically open for visitors but since change of ownership in practice not really open to visitors. They can make more money with permanent liveaboards.
South Dock has all berths now designated as residential, ie no visitor berths, but in practice they welcome visitors, even club bookings, provided there are spare berths.
St Katharine - no change. Visitors welcome.
Chelsea - in practice not open to visitors.

and for those in the least interested........
Have visited virtually all of the tidal stopovers.
South Dock
Limehouse
West India
Hermitage Moorings.
St Kats.
Chelsea Yacht Haven.

This year on our annual trip up to the non tidal Thames, we as usual decided to break the journey.
For the reasons listed above we decided to carry on further up stream this time and hope that actually mooring directly on the river itself would not be problem, reports that Chiswick was a useful handy stop over.
No problems contacting a very helpful lady and explained needed a simple overnight stop for two boats.
We would be arriving late evening and away early morning as soon as sufficient water to navigate. £55.00 per boat in advance Please.
Unfortunately the only available space would alongside a barge and we would have to raft. This was no problem to us.
On arrival the named barge to moor against was not locatable and as the office was closed we moored against one of two large barges moored out into the tideway.
The owner of which on arrival turfed us off when we refused to pay him in cash ,we had already paid in advance to the office.
We upsticks and moor to the other barge.
No power and no water and very difficult to gain any access to to shore.
Wash from passing high speed traffic in the hours of darkeness did not add to the attractions.

It became obvious in the morning why we could not moor on their adjacent very acceptable proper visitor moorings, they had been hired out to a tour boat for overnight mooring.

 

[laika]

they had been hired out to a tour boat for overnight mooring.

Did you get your money back?

 

[PeterBoater]

OG
With your encyclopaedic knowledge of the London River, have you any experience of the following two marinas? Albeit that neither is exactly downtown, for completeness they should perhaps be mentioned:
Gravesend. Only one gate, so only open HW Tilbury minus a bit up to HW.
Chiswick Quay (the marina, not the pier). HW +/-2