Navigation Fees

[Gitane]

Slightly off topic this one.

My son is interested in kayaking along the Blackwater canal, the upper parts of the river Stour, river Chelmer etc etc, basically, any quiet waters in Essex that could carry a kayak.

Does anyone know if navigation fees are required for these, and if so, who do you pay?

Gitane.

 

[sailorman]

Slightly off topic this one.

My son is interested in kayaking along the Blackwater canal, the upper parts of the river Stour, river Chelmer etc etc, basically, any quiet waters in Essex that could carry a kayak.

Does anyone know if navigation fees are required for these, and if so, who do you pay?

Gitane.

i would suggest as its man powered no fees
its better to beg forgiveness than seek permission

 

[Athene V30]

If you go on the Norfolk Broads and associated rivers sailing dinghies need a licence and I think even kayakers may too but afraid I dont know for the Essex / South Suffolk rivers.

 

[FullCircle]

£4.50 per day......

Navigation Manager, Colin Edmond. 07966 375351
Mooring and Fisheries Manager, Hugh Turner. 07910 558465 (office hours)
Essex Waterways Helmsman School, Hugh Turner. 07910 558465 (office hours)
Heybridge Lock Keeper, Martin Maudsley. 07712 079764. VHF Channel 80 “Heybridge Lock”


https://www.waterways.org.uk/essex_waterways/canoeing


and it is a nice jaunt around 14 miles long

 

[Gitane]

Thank you very much,

Very useful info.

Gitane

 

[Little Rascal]

The Suffolk Stour comes under the Environment agency's 'Anglian Waterways Licence'

The Broads is about a tenner for a week's visitor toll.

If he intends to use lots of different places it might be worth his while joining the British Canoe Union which covers most of the waterways in the country (but not the Chelmer apparently?)

 

[Mysteresailing]

If you are a bcu member you get some water way access incuded the norfolk broads are covered.

 

[toad]

Its some years since I paddled the Chelmer but from the gas works to Haybridge is chargeable even for canoes, pay at the first lock house you come to. A pleasant trip is from Margareting (junction of Swan lane and Maldon road launch at the bridge) to Waterhouse lane in Chelmsford on the Wid. Or you could do from Broomfield or Little Waltham down to the gas works in Chelmsford on the Chelmer. Both trips are best done in the spring when there is plenty of water and not to much weed. The Stour from Sudbury down river is very good with a few gentile weirs to shoot but I cannot remember if you have to pay. I seem to remember a five drop wear at Nayland.

 

[wingdiver]

Many years ago, I used to canoe from Dedham Mill Pond to Cattawade sluice via Flatford and back. We had to carry the canoes at Flatford to get by. There were no fees, just a few miserable anglers to listen to as you went by......