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Marmalade

Marmalade

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Has anyone used the London Moorings in the Thames at Gravesend? We brought up there on saturday (on our way up here to St kats). You berth on the inside of the pontoon, the outside of which is used by a ferry. Heavy lorry-tyre fendering left black marks on the hull (came off easily enough)

£30 for a night (we are 44ft so not too bad) including leccy and water
 
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saw you on the pontoon on Sunday morning when returning to Gravesend Sailing Club from Limehouse. The council had the pontoon built (top marks to them) but the designers forgot the fendering hence the tyres. They seem to be getting a reasonable number of boats using it. Its possible to reach some decent eataries from there (and some not so decent) and there are supermarkets, petrol station etc in walking distance. Good stop over either up or down the river.
 
Firefly said:
saw you on the pontoon on Sunday morning when returning to Gravesend Sailing Club from Limehouse. The council had the pontoon built (top marks to them) but the designers forgot the fendering hence the tyres. They seem to be getting a reasonable number of boats using it. Its possible to reach some decent eataries from there (and some not so decent) and there are supermarkets, petrol station etc in walking distance. Good stop over either up or down the river.
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yep - really shortened our trip up on Sunday (compared to, say, Queenborough or Stangate). Asked VTS for permission to tack through the Woolwich Barrier which they slightly reluctantly gave!

Loos and showers here at St Kats completely refurbished since last year - top quality facilities now in keeping with the location at last.
 
Marmalade said:
Loos and showers here at St Kats completely refurbished since last year - top quality facilities now in keeping with the location at last.
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Have they sorted out the problem with the shower flooding the whole room in most of the new facilities? When they first opened the disabled was about the only one where you did not have to paddle if you wanted to use the loo.

Another problem is that there are no separate loos, so if you need the loo, perhaps urgently :D, and all the Dutch are having their morning shower you are in a fix.

Have they demolished all the other facilities in the East and West docks? The manager told us that the new ones by the lock would be the only facilities in the whole complex when the refurbishment was complete.
 
Leighb said:
Have they sorted out the problem with the shower flooding the whole room in most of the new facilities? When they first opened the disabled was about the only one where you did not have to paddle if you wanted to use the loo.

Another problem is that there are no separate loos, so if you need the loo, perhaps urgently :D, and all the Dutch are having their morning shower you are in a fix.

Have they demolished all the other facilities in the East and West docks? The manager told us that the new ones by the lock would be the only facilities in the whole complex when the refurbishment was complete.
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no - west dock also refurbished... can't speak for the showers as I use the shower on board...
 
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