Searush
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or if it does it is well insured. 
I hope this doesn't belong to anyone on here
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Richard Shead
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or if it does it is well insured.
Hmmm we have the picture of it after that ... All you can see is the bow and let's just say it ain't tied up there. We will need permission to show the pic and will ask them tomorrow.
Great shame.
bradtarga34
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Where is that?
IAIA3259
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saxon moorings old windsor, it is one of their 5 riverside moorings outside the main basin
teddington_lock
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Heading to bell weir now , photo from Martin the old Windsor lockie 
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Wavey
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Feel so sorry for the owner.
Will it make it to Bell Weir or sink before it gets there?
Will it make it to Bell Weir or sink before it gets there?
Captain Coochie
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I really feel for the owners . Its a horrible feeling knowing your property may cause damage to others . At least if they sink you know where they are .
Richard Shead
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Heading to bell weir now , photo from Martin the old Windsor lockie
That's the pic we have.
sailorman
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The owner should not have left her out on the swollen river, "a duty of care " springs to mind. Sorry but thats how i see it
Richard Shead
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With the greatest of respect (that means I can now slate you!) you have obviously not visited the area. There is absolutely no reason to move the boat from its secure mooring on the Thames, clearly something catastrophic has happened here for it to sink link that (perhaps the outdrive went? or hit by something) to say he should not have left it out suggests that each and every boat on the Thames needs to come out!
sailorman
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Much safer especially with an outdrive, strong winds/ fast water flow. Trees & flotsom floating by. I bet the ins will be generally higher nxt renewal for these inland vessels
Captain Coochie
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Where do you suggest we put them all ?
Gavi
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Fully agree. We moved Ex Libris from her fixed mooring to one with risers only 2 days before the river went mad. If we had waited we would not have been able to move her. The landing platform that has the risers floods first. Also she has a deep displacement hull and is very scary to move/turn in a full flow river with all the undercurrents and debris. We only moved her because I had been in Oxford and witnessed all the rainfall.
sailorman
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Nice to hear of a careful & proactive owner.
macnorton
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Outdrives can be lifted where keels cannot, was it not you that recently denied the storm surge was coming on the east coast forum then took your boat into deeper water because the mooring it was on was not high enough?
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?380397-Flood-warnings-as-well!/page2
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?380397-Flood-warnings-as-well!/page5
perhaps this boat would have been better left on the flooded river bank so it could float away?
Richard Shead
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To be fair and in the interest of balance the boat does live at the bottom of his garden..
I think its a bit harsh to criticise the poor chap that has lost his / her boat.
You may as well start slating all the folk that have had their car flooded this week, that will be in the thousands surely they could have taken them to higher land...
sailorman
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on the recent well publicised East Coast surge, i drove 70 miles to see my boat over the tide. i also parked my car away from the marina up a hill 200 m away. I took my boat out of the marina over night & moored on the Orwell ( HW 01.30 z) in case the pontoons topped the piles.
i only went to bed after HW when i knew all was well.
Andrew M
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ooooooo, get you !
Richard Shead
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I really dont think you can compare the two here...but I have work to do so I cant stop and argue!
No Regrets
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Every boat which is either not on a floating mooring, or cannot be checked when necessary (hourly, in some circumstances!!) should come out.
Otherwise there is a risk of sinking.
Now even a Bayliner (Like the one in the photo) would be hard to actually sink even in a rough estuary, so one can only assume it's broken away and hit something very hard or sharp, the thing was tied up too tight, or the Stewrndrive seal wasn't replaced for years.
They don't just sink, but with the right ingredients they will, quite easily.
