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We moored up at the Swan Hotel at Pangbourne a while ago to enquire about overnight moorings so we could enjoy a Birthday meal out, and they said it was £25 per hour.

Big mistake given my penchant for vast quantities of expensive food and Wine...

Twats...the mooring was empty too /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

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This is the place where the 3 Men in a Boat gave up and went home by train isn't it? I had a pleasant overnighter there three years ago and was never asked for a penny to moor up, a new policy? Annoying if so as I was sort of planning to get that far next week. Still, there's other side of the river and tender.
 
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Nice photo of the Plough, I always liked that place.

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Yes! Mel was VERY sympathetic towards boaters and ran a true pub with pub grub. Sadly he has now retired and I have so far heard nothing about the new landlord.
 
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Boatone,

It's not only eateries and pubs that are missing out on the passing boat trade, try mooring up at a charndlers for a much needed spare part, not a free customer mooring in site.

Shops in towns along the river need to get in gear and offer more to boaters to encourage them to moor and then spend some money. Get Marlow and Henley councils to reduce or even better, abolish the mooring fee.
 
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A a youngster i grew up in Chiswick on the Thames, a once lovely area now spoiled .
When i grew up there i could as a child walk out to the moorings in the centre of the river by the old Bason and Arnold boatyard.
Many a happy hour was spent trawling the foreshore for any boat related flotsam.
Horror ! i hear the health and safety merchants cry !! think of the germs and pollution.
In all my time spent there i never suffered anything worse than a life long love of boats and water.
I remember an old character nicknamed "Jacko" a real old salt,anyone old enough to remember "SAXA SAM" on the salt containers of the 60 s would have the image that was him !
He used to work an old whaler up and down with ease (he must have been about 70-80 )between Kew Pier and places between.
I went back with my step daughter a month or so back,not one boat to be seen.
The place to me is dead after all what is a river without its characters,be they boats or the folk that own them.
Another clean up campaign that has not only lost the river one of its assets,but jobs and income too!
Needless to say the old boat yard is now re developed as is the Cubitts Yacht Basin site a few yards downstream,for a few yuppies to enjoy their view while the eyesore they occupy spoils everyone elses !!
 
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