Now back from an excellent Thames trip.....BUT !

If anyone on here uses nb forum's (we'll keep your dirty secret!) it may be handy to post a link to this so the nb's could read it.
Or poss take a pic of inconsiderate boat users and have a sticky "arse of the week"
 
We've got 6 days off next week and will be heading up river. Somehow I'm expecting the worst when it comes to mooring at places like Cookham and Marlow.
 
Wavey said:
We've got 6 days off next week and will be heading up river. Somehow I'm expecting the worst when it comes to mooring at places like Cookham and Marlow.
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Marlow, you just have to be lucky, lots of boats only stop for an hour or two just to do a bit of shopping, it's well worth hanging around there outside of the weekend.
 
We are heading downstream from Reading next week (after the Rewind festival) so may be fighting you for a space! We have often stopped at Marlow for lunch and shopping but not to stay overnight as it is a bit too busy for us. We have usually been able to squeeze in somewhere. Cookham during the week is still busy, but we have always been able to find somehere to moor, just not on the main stretch near the bridge. Last year we had a very peaceful evening moored at the back of the lock island whcih can be booked through the lockkeeper so that is always an option as well.
 
DWT said:
We are heading downstream from Reading next week (after the Rewind festival) so may be fighting you for a space! We have often stopped at Marlow for lunch and shopping but not to stay overnight as it is a bit too busy for us. We have usually been able to squeeze in somewhere. Cookham during the week is still busy, but we have always been able to find somehere to moor, just not on the main stretch near the bridge. Last year we had a very peaceful evening moored at the back of the lock island whcih can be booked through the lockkeeper so that is always an option as well.
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The draft on my previous boat was such that Marlow was a no-no. Do you think I can bags a mooring on the basis I haven't been able to get in there for the past 18 years!

Forgot about the lock island at Cookham and never been on it. May be a daft question but would you get a Broom 42cl with RIB in there?
 
Wavey said:
The draft on my previous boat was such that Marlow was a no-no. Do you think I can bags a mooring on the basis I haven't been able to get in there for the past 18 years!

Forgot about the lock island at Cookham and never been on it. May be a daft question but would you get a Broom 42cl with RIB in there?
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Nice little spot. Depends what a Broom 42 cl draws and how your RIB is set up in relationship to your boat. Are you dragging it. Is it rafted up or is it on Davits?
 
We have a boat on the Thames and on the East Coast at Walton on the Naze. In the Walton Backwaters there is a very nice beach (Stone Point) reasonably close to Walton (easy dinghy access up the creek to the town hard). Over the last few weeks have noticed we now have a permanent Dutch barge anchored there, I thought at least on the East Coast we would be away from the freeloaders seen on the Thames, but no, they're spreading!
 
Over the last few weeks have noticed we now have a permanent Dutch barge anchored there, I thought at least on the East Coast we would be away from the freeloaders seen on the Thames, but no, they're spreading!
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Now that the EA are "asking" all who float on the Thames to cough up towards the funding of the river,the odd refugee has started to pop up in surrounding areas.
It would appear at the moment that it is the larger Dutch type barges who are leading the exodus,most probably due to the fact that an increase from nothing to quite a lot will be most upsetting for those living aboard.
 
oldgit said:
Now that the EA are "asking" all who float on the Thames to cough up towards the funding of the river,the odd refugee has started to pop up in surrounding areas.
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You are right to feel paranoid. I , for one, am now taking great pleasure in informing NB's and DB's what a splendid area area the Mudway is for extended cruising !
 
No Regrets said:
Upstream. Bray have had big boats down there no probs...
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Hmm, I'm confused now. I am sure we were downstream of the lock up what I think is Hedsor reach. Access to the lock was across a cow field through a gate and past a small camping area. I have seen some boats on what looks like an island upstream just before you enter the lock cut, is that where you mean?
 
boatone said:
You are right to feel paranoid. I , for one, am now taking great pleasure in informing NB's and DB's what a splendid area area the Mudway is for extended cruising !
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Aha...but as any fule kno..the Mudway is full of rough types and cutpurses, the sort of people who actually work for a living and furthermore actually go places in their boats.This area is most unsuitable for the intelligensia and airy fairy types of the Thames,whos navigational skills mainly consist of knowing the location of the Rocket salad in Waitrose and the phone number of the Bull at Sonning.
Avoid the Medeway at all costs,you pay by the inch down there. :)
 
DWT said:
Hmm, I'm confused now. I am sure we were downstream of the lock up what I think is Hedsor reach. Access to the lock was across a cow field through a gate and past a small camping area. I have seen some boats on what looks like an island upstream just before you enter the lock cut, is that where you mean?
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No Regrets is talking about the island upstream of the lock, but the club have also had 15 boats or so in Hedsor Reach as you describe.
 
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