Liveaboards at Shiplake

[boatone]

People pay to swi
Pay to swim in the river? That is mind-boggling, sewage or not.

They pay the organisers to participate in commercially organised swimming events (many have entry fees in excess of £100) but there is no financial benefit to the Thames authorities - the TC Act doesn't provide for a charge for swimming in the river.

 

[oldgit]

You mean premier houseboats?
I've been there. Impressive quantity of quite crazy floating scrap about !

You might think that, I could not possibly comment.
Nearbye yacht club have to clean their slipway of Merde.

A totally random picture from Google Earth.

Land sold as leisure plots at Cuxton.
You can just make out the bounderies of the plots were the owners where forced to remove fences and sheds etc.

 

[boatone]

A few years back - 2012 - but I found this commune of houseboats on the Merdway quite picturesque !

 

[Outinthedinghy]

You might think that, I could not possibly comment.
Nearbye yacht club have to clean their slipway of Merde.

A totally random picture from Google Earth.

Land sold as leisure plots at Cuxton.
You can just make out the bounderies of the plots were the owners where forced to remove fences and sheds etc.

Part of the breakwater at Hoo is made of some of the WW2 concrete lighters I believe.


And I remember the plots being for sale in fact I mentioned them in here at the time. An old boatyard which was sold off. The access looked a bit iffy I wonder who owns that and the gate.


Going back to the Unicumes lane thing I was told by someone who knew about these things that one could buy a plot there and as long as one did not encroach onto the land or build structures, drive on a footpath etc then one would be able to moor a boat there and not have any problems.

Will be interesting to have another little drive down and investigate. When I went before there was someone living in a wooded section between river and railway. I wonder if they were also subject to enforcement or was it just the boats.