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Further to the booking an EA mooring thread website
All powered boats would be fitted with AIS transmitter.
This would enable anyone with a smart phone to go onto a website and note the number of vessels at any particular mooring site.
Easy for EA to spot who has not moved recently and for forumites to avoid each other after any recent arguments. :)
Whats not to like ?
 
Ah, high hopes for the EA's capability to embrace modernish technology. Note that apart from recently introduced email via BlackBerry phones, the usual method of communication remains the fax machine along the river.

The key challenge for the 24 hour moorings enforcement plan is that the moorings have to be checked daily by a member of duty staff so any formal evidence of overstaying may be gathered. The 'car parking' enforcement firm merely administers the civil enforcement process, none of their staff visit the moorings.
 
Some of which are quite some distance away from the lock sites, so there's a catch 22. The lock can be unmanned for quite some time while the poor lockie is trudging upriver to check them. Then there is the added complication of heading into a potentially hostile situation single handed.

Take your car to check them I hear you say , save some time. As capnfishy will no doubt remember from our warrant training, agency staff are not meant to take personal transport that is registered to them into situations like this dues to possibility of repercussions from the scrotes. Very few resident lockies have agency cars, although some inexplicably do ?

On a side note cap'n , remember the wonderful barrister , giving everyone their ten minutes in the box under cross examination. All except one, who got 45 .....
 
Yes, vividly, and the learning is this: never argue points of law with a barrister in court when you know fook all about it. It was a cruel, heartless and comedic destruction of poor evidence by a skillful lawyer who should be on the stage. We sniggered about it for weeks, still do. That particular patrol officer is still out there somewhere on the river, believing he knows what he's doing!
 
Maybe lock keepers should be given rowing coxes boats and some sort of exemption from the speed regulations so they can speed up and down their reach with a couple of hi res video cameras to record the naughtiness of certain boat users. Like what Google do but daily.

I noticed there were a few semi derelict coxes boats at Oxford - those nice ones with the outboard motor set in about 3ft from the stern. 2 seats. They move very nicely with a 10 or 15hp outboard on and not expensive on fuel due to long waterline and good shape.
A bit tricky to turn but the lock keepers job would be to switch on the cameras, stick it on full throttle and sit back. Turning would only be required on reaching the downstream layby of the next lock up stream. Always best to set off upstream in a small boat.

If the rowers get an exemption surely the authority running the River can get a similar deal?

It would be a bit rude to blast along at 13 knots in a Robert Ives 29 patrol boat as they do make quite a severe semi displacement type wash but some of those coxes boats really don't make a lot of wash at all.

I think there would be a fair chance of attracting volunteers for this job.

What's not to like ?
 
Outinthedinghy said:
......some of those coxes boats really don't make a lot of wash at all.
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Poor them, it must be so frustrating. The mob around Hampton Court have got around the problem by getting as close as possible to a stretch of moored cruisers, then flooring it. Just after 7am on a Sunday is the preferred hour.
I often wish I could set the waste tank to self pump under pressure by flicking a switch in the V berth.
 
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