Overnight Thames moorings

[peterandjeanette]

Having ventured from my mooring at T & K on the Thames down onto the tideway on a couple of occasions last year - and enjoyed the experience - I would like to do more next year. On past visits I have locked into St. Kath's for the night, but was disappointed by the limited entry times.
Does anyone have experience of other overnight visitor's berth eg. Limehouse, Galleons etc. between Tower Bridge and Chatham? I need 1m of water under me to avoid any expensive crunching sounds.

 

[byron]

South Dock has better opening times than St Kats and Lime House better yet, you can always stop on Chiswick Peir at any time.

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[ChrisP]

I think Limehouse can lock you in up to 5 hours either side of high water. bes to give them a ring and confirm. It's much quieter than St Kat's

 

[Guest]

Re: expensive crunching

Does anyone know about the pontoon outside the Pont de la Tour restauranrt at tower bridge? Nice pontoon, but very cleverly locked so no getting ashore. Who controls all this lot? And why not have some more pontoons, instead of meg-expensive locking doors controling access to an empty pontoon?

 

[paulineb]

Re: expensive crunching

It's for customers only or river trippy boats who bring customers along, although if they aren't busy and you speak to the maitre d' nicely, you can moor there while waiting to get into St Kats but no overnight stays allowed- great restaurant though !

Pauline B

 

[ChrisP]

Re: expensive crunching

They're usually operated by the PLA or the pleasure boat companies. They lock em to keep out the bloody stupid public who will only go and fall into the water leaving the pier operator open to huge damages claims, because Joe public never takes responsibility for his own stupidity it's always sombody elses fault.

 

[Guest]

Re: great restaurant : reviewed

By now, I'm well-known as smoking public-school wooftah who determinedly slags off any restaurant owned by non-public school types. So what of the veritable Pont de la Tour? What indeed? Oh, I can't be bothered to yet another lower-order Conran emporium, can I? After all, the man is so vulgar, his only saving grace that he smokes. Wrong school, my darling, don't you see? The blonde sat sulkily throughout, the assembled throng recognising neither her recherche King's Road outfit, nor her partner (that's me) now famous as the most razor sharp wit in the land. Why, I wonder in between mouthfuls, am I allowed to continue to be a restaurant critic? Who knows? Who indeed, dear reader? And yet ...and I yet I will continue to dish out yet more pagefuls of oh-so-camp self-opinionated text to an uneducated readership of sunday times wannabees more interested in the price of a 1999 new-shape S500. I found the gravy to be a limp brownish liquid. The mashed potatoes seemed like dead, white, boiled root vegetables. The plates and uniformly drab ovals, the tables similarly and uninspiringly covered in white morgue-like tablecloths. I ran out of words to slag off the rest of it, and flounched out and away back to dearest dearest Kensington.

 

[tripleace]

Limehouse: VERY FRIENDLY, VERY HELPFUL, GOOD SIMPLE CLUBHOUSE, GENERALLY JUST NICE PEOPLE.

Not alot else in the marina. good length of time to get in and out

 

[oldgit]

Re: moorings queenborough

£ 6 .00 a nite and peace and quiet pub at top of all tide landing.Soory no posh resturants with take what your silly enougth to pay prices but have got chip shop at end of high st.was awarded three stars by "Prison Visitors Weekly"No credit cards.Cash will do nicely as we say down ere in Kent.Oh and by the way we promise not to nick your fenders.

 

[jfm]

Re: delights of Queenborough

... and you can stock up on flourane and colostomy bag adhesive at the massive waterside Abbott factory too.

 

[oldgit]

Re: delights of Queenborough

Oi stop putting them off we are getting low on stocks of fenders outboards and other not bolted down type stuff.got lots of oars.

 

[Guest]

I would second that.

Also when we were there they told us you get 2 nights free mooring if you're a BW license holder, perhaps this will extend to EA license holders when BW take them over.

 

[byron]

Hot off the Press... EA retaining control of Thames. (Better the devil you know)

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[stefan_r]

Galleons

never overnighted there but have driven there as it is close to where I work...to be honest didn't seem like a particularly nice spot. Minimal facilities, bit middle of nowhere - but if you are visiting London by boat and don't want facilities could be good if cheap as right next door to DLR station....

Dunno about access either....but something must be good there 'cos it had a Princess20m looking very out of place on one of the berths. Or it's just very cheap n cheerful.

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[paulineb]

Re: Galleons - yucky lock

Been in Galleons once, just used it as a bolt hole. It wasn't a very nice place to stay, and the lock was yucky. It only holds one boat at a time and is very slow, very deep and very dirty.

Pauline B

 

[Guest]

Byron

How hot is this?
I was told by someone at BW that this was a done deal, but you seem to know otherwise!

Neil

 

[byron]

Red Hot came from John Stripp yesterday PM when he and Grace popped in for a cuppa.

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[ChrisP]

We were told it at the reagonal meeting of the RYA a few weeks ago.