New Year Trip with Pics

[SilverTT]

Crew of the captain swmbo, skivvy me and 18 mth Callum

Well here we go, should be great conditions.

How many cranes

Must be shallow with all those lightships about.

Here it is

The forts

Wind Farm

The young crew resting. Well wrapped up.

Thames Barrier

The Dome or O2 as it's known now. I went on the wrong side of the river to take this. I upset a ferry and had a call from London VTS. Talk about make a mountain out of a mole hill. We were the only ones on the river, he didn't have to make adjustments to course. Get a life.

Tied up outside St Kats. Me and Callum

Look what we find in the lock. Borat

Tower at night. Heading for the fireworks

The said fireworks at midnight.

New Years Day

Horse guard

Who's this truck

Bit of culture

Locked out ready to go.

Journey home.
What can I say. Friend came down with a chart on his laptop. All going well until we're coming out of the river mouth heads in the lap top with brief look around every few seconds. Or so I thought.
Small boat ahead on my side of channel. looks like he's fishing.
1. should I cut across in front and go around him
or
2. Move slightly over to stb.

we're in plenty of water so I moved slightly over.
Cut along story short i'm a twat. we run agound. We went from 20ft of water to 3ft in the length of the boat. Luckly we were able to get off no probs. Sigh of relief.

Lessons learnt.
No matter how well you think you know the area concentrate 100%
If you have to cut across a fishing boat to stay in a channel do so. sod em

Great trip. Makes you realise why we do boating.
Hope you like the story. I've kept it brief

 

[RobWales]

Great pics and thanks for sharing......
What are those fort's all about then? be interested to learn about them.
Cheers
Rob

 

[bradtarga34]

Great photo's, we were in St Kat's as well for New Years, although didn't quite get down far enough to actually see the fireworks, hoping we could have seen them from Tower Bridge, but all I saw was the bottom of a champagne glass! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif My Wife actually works on the street of your culture shot, so she was well happy about not having to commute to work for a change, lovely spot though.

 

[mainshiptom]

Great pictures, We are in St Kats and loving it , shame we did not meet up?

The kids loved the firworks.

Thanks for sharing the pictures, first class!

 

[drewstwos]

The forts are similar to the ones that were in the river Mersey during WW2 They would have been armed with as big a sert of guns as possible. The idea was to sink any enemy landing craft should the invasion actually have taken plase. To my mind a rather suicidal last stand.
Cheers

Drew.
PS. Yes ,you will gather I am old enough to remember them all, I gave that away in the three memories of that wasr I wrote recently in the Lounge.

 

[SilverTT]

Yes your right about the forts in the war. They were joined up by a walk way which has since rotted away. A couple of forts were being used as a radio station a while back. Apart from that deserted.

 

[SilverTT]

you prob heard the party on HMS Belfast.

 

[SilverTT]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed them. I don't normally broadcast my trips just in case they don't come off. Maybe I will so I can meet up with fellow boaters

 

[deborahann]

great pics, enjoyed that, Callum looks lovely, & very well.

 

[Nauti Fox]

Looks like you all had a great time, perhaps we should try for a forum New Year meet up next time, seems there were lots of us spread over Limehouse and St Kats.