How far up the Thames could I get in a bradwell 18?

[PaulRainbow]

From Page 7 of thr EA booklet

Do I need to register my boat?All boats kept or used on the River Thames(including backwaters and marinas) must becurrently registered with the EnvironmentAgency. Visit www.environment-agency.gov.uk/boatregthames for more information.If you are visiting the River Thames fromanother waterway for a short period, you areeligible for a short period registration. You canbuy one in advance by post or from a numberof River Thames locks during published hours ofduty. Visit www.environment-agency.gov.uk/boatregthames for more information.

I think you need to register to get a lock key

I may be wrong or things may have changed, but i seem to remember from when we went that if you get a day/week/whatever temp pass from Teddington, that covers you for the BSS.

As previously stated, a definitive answer from teddingtonlock would be most useful.

 

[steve yates]

I've emailed the crt to find out.

 

[PaulRainbow]

I've emailed the crt to find out.

Tthe non tidal Thames is administered by the EA Steve.

More useful infor here : http://www.teddington-lock.co.uk/page_1149710270562.html

It does say "Any craft not registered with the EA will need to be licensed before they may go upstream of Teddington. Visitors licenses may be purchased from the lock keeper"

 

[steve yates]

Ah. Useful that their website links to 2009 pricing page, then goes nowhere at all

Are the EA a bit behind the times?

I'm now seriously considering jumbleducks suggestion of coming down the canal system from glasson dock, and if I do I would hit the upper thames either at oxford, or go down tothe severn then come up from avonmouth to the thames. So I'll be doing it in reverse. I presume there will be a point on either route where the ea take over from crt and I can buy a licence there?