Look what morred up alongside us on Saturday

[DogsBody]

This pulled in alongside us in the marina on Saturday night.

I wonder what they were surveying? Water quality?

Wondered if the thing on the side was some sort of sonar to check the river contours prior to dredging certain areas maybe. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Whatever, it looked like overkill for the river, two large looking outboards on the stern and all the safety gear you could want.

Darren.

 

[apollo]

Maybe it will run agound in one of the countless shoals and knacker its outboard props......

Or maybe its here to chase any speeders they spot with their radar guns?

 

[boatone]

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Maybe it will run agound in one of the countless shoals and knacker its outboard props......

Or maybe its here to chase any speeders they spot with their radar guns?

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You need to get out on the river more - you should have gone by now !!!

 

[apollo]

I was thinking that maybe I should get out less?

Its only when you use the Thames a lot that you notice all this stuff.

But you dont want us to knock the EA so I must shut up!

 

[jaws]

It was down by the Eton Rowing Club EA moorings at the weekend. Checking depths by the looks of things. Didn't quite know why it had 2 large outboards or Radar!

 

[Mike_Gates]

I spoke to the crew. They work out of Bath and have just been working in the Irish Sea. They are “mapping” the Thames from Chertsey up.

All the best

 

[boatone]

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But you dont want us to knock the EA so I must shut up!

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No objection whatsoever to constructive criticism of the EA - in fact they get a fair bit of it from me. It's the silly digs I feel are unhelpful.

 

[Chris_d]

This is good news, it looks like someone at the EA is listening and at least trying to find out exactly where various shoals are. I don't think cheap jibes at the boat being over equiped for the river are really relevent, theres quite a few river users on here with similar reserves of horsepower etc...

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

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This is good news, it looks like someone at the EA is listening and at least trying to find out exactly where various shoals are. I don't think cheap jibes at the boat being over equiped for the river are really relevent, theres quite a few river users on here with similar reserves of horsepower etc...

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Well, if they read this forum and/or listened to B1 et al, any of us with deeper draught boats, they would know where the shoals are, we've found them

 

[jaws]

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cheap jibes at the boat being over equiped for the river are really relevent, theres quite a few river users on here with similar reserves of horsepower etc...

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..but not paid for by the Tax payer. The EA are always on about not wasting resources. Anyway the reasons for the extra horsepower have now been explained.