River Trent guides: living aboard.

[Tania Thomas]

Another forum member said it might reach a better audience in here than the live aboard forum...hope so..

Well... I’m at the serious consideration of a liveaboard on the Trent in the Notts/Derby area. I’ve a brief guide to the bridge clearances locally here, so when I’d like to adventure out then I’ve a bit of work to get a 15‘ craft under a 12’3 bridge at Newark on Trent... I’ve got that in hand for now.

The big questions I’ve got are what guides/books could be useful for boating inland in a bigger craft, and how far in and where I can practically go before the bridges become too low or i bottom out. I’m thinking rivers off the East Coast. Ouse, Humber, Calder, Etc..

Are there many of you living aboard in Bayliners/Carvers, etc, and inland?

 

[prv]

It sounds like you want the ditchcrawlers’ forum for that. With the odd exception, most of us in here sail yachts (with sails) on the sea. The motorboatalists might also be able to help with information on Bayliners and suchlike.

Inland Waterways forum (though I think more Thames focused)

Motorboat forum

Pete

 

[Mister E]

The Thames forum seems to have a lot of knowledge about large Motorboats on rivers.
There is also some reference to other rivers.

 

[Momac]

I am based at Farndon
There are charts for the rivers Trent and Ouse which are in the form of books . To be honest you possibly don't need the non tidal one.
The Boating Association Trent Chart No.1 NON Tidal
The Boating Association Trent Chart No.2 Tidal

There are various bits of data on bridge heights ......but remember rivers may flood , reducing clearance
http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/m.../wusig/WUSIG-waterway-dimensions-17-11-10.pdf

 

[snowbird30ds]

Rippon motorboat club did an excellent guide to the rivers trent and ouse, I assume they still do.