Henley....Agian !

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Henley....Again !

Helped a RCC club member moor up this afternoon, just returned from a nice fortnight on the jolly old Thames.
He ran aground at Henley.
Broom 36, draws about 1M. Managed to extract his boat with no damage by levering boat out into river with boat hook.
Below bridge this time on left hand bank opposite that posh clubhouse !
Ho Hum.
 
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We had 8 boats moored up opposite Phyllis court a few weeks ago, most just have enough draft, but the Broom 37 decided to moor further down to avoid issues. There are probably a few shallow moorings there for sure...
 
Seem to remember in the dim and distant past B1 and his Pedro having a problem there.
Not so bad if sand or silt but recall it is all rocks.
 
This may be true, but a twin engined boat can use the outer least vulnerable prop to manoeuvre very slowly while somebody checks the water with a boathook!

Ours has a large skeg too, so generally well protected, but not immune....
 
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Outdrives the way to go, have got into shallow moorings others can only dream about ;)

The Henley moorings on that side have always shallowed as you get closer to the bridge, visitors beware I guess.
Offshore non SD style Brooms do seem to have an embarrassingly deep drafts for their size though.
 
Chris_d said:
Outdrives others can only dream about ;)
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My nightmare was about being on first name terms with the lads at Steel Developments and usually having a mangled set of props with them at most times of the year and them knowing by credit card number off by heart.
My props, allegedly made of some mysterious material varying between aluminium and marzipan, it was suggested that a set of stainless props were purchased.
Seemed a good idea until tales of wrecked gearboxes after hitting stuff with stainless props started to arise.
Actually on reflection probably the the best course of action to prevent having outdrive problems and to avoid the expense and time lost would be to use a dry stack ashore system..........



























and leave it there 365 days a year. :)
 
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Well done indeed. It's about time those greedy sods at the council gave something back to the MB owners they are so keen to charge and I'm sure they wouldn't have bothered if not pressured to do so.

Mind your, I'll still be passing through without stopping, far too many nicer places further upstream:D.
 
Yes not before time but you can bet that if they are belatedly forking out that sort of money they will be wanting a quick return. No longer will the groundsmen be collecting the fees. It will be handed over to the uniformed Council Stazi ticket monkeys who will be patrolling 24/7 with cameras and card readers. (but yes of course thanks are due to Tony et al and TMBA)
 
Great news; we moor there often to pick up an ice-cream / have a beer at the Angel, as non-boat friends love the trip from Caversham where we're based.

I'm lucky I can raise up the outdrive (or devil's egg-whisk :) ), but often warn larger boats off the shallow sections. Dad spent 20 minutes helping some Germans on a LeBoat who'd inadvertently got stuck on a shallow section; earnt himself a beer that day!

Hopefully the (£500 a day) river survey will identify the concrete sandbags towards the upper section of the moorings.

In two years of ownership/visiting, we've never been charged for the mooring (which I believe kicks in at 3 or 4pm?). On occasion we are the after the cut off, but they've always let us off when we explain we're heading back to the marina and not staying the night. I think they also realise that 6 or 8 people won't be sleeping on a S24!
 
boatone said:
The news from Henley is, at least, encouraging. The response here is, at best, depressing. This forum has become a sad reflection of the political landscape.
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+1 Don't really understand some of the opinions on here, thank goodness this isn't the US!
Henley is the centre of the river and with the best access and facilities for boaters, that the river friendly mayor and council are prepared to invest in the riverside should only be encouraged.
 
dash300 said:
Yes not before time but you can bet that if they are belatedly forking out that sort of money they will be wanting a quick return. No longer will the groundsmen be collecting the fees. It will be handed over to the uniformed Council Stazi ticket monkeys who will be patrolling 24/7 with cameras and card readers. (but yes of course thanks are due to Tony et al and TMBA)
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What difference will that make? It doesn't matter who collects the fees, does it?
 
I would like my fees to be collected by a Phyllis Court waiter, while I drink my wine box and offer up a hot dog for him to grace with Grey Poupon:cool:
 
No matter how smart the moorings may become the fact is there is still a big lump of concrete in the river which is causing a problem to mooring boats. And it looks like it still hasn't been sorted.
So if the council employ the same monkeys that did the recent works then god help us all
 
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