Speed limit ?? What speed limit ?

[cafebloke]

A Bit of a silly question really...
I just got back from a couple of weeks chugging up and down between Reading and Teddington... I usually live on the tidal waters and only come upriver about once a year or less.

Once I am into the 8kph zone I usually switch off one engine and a little more than tickover speed carries me along with the gps flickering between 7 and 7.5 kph. I dont keep to the limits because its the rules... I keep below the limit because its a holiday and I am in no rush to go anywhere fast..

I felt like the slowest boat on the river !! If I came out of a lock first, I was passed by everyone within minutes ... what on earth is the rush ?

The absolute worst culprits were the professional river users. Once a passenger boat passes you, it disappears in minutes...those buggers must must be doing at least 12 or more kph . You would think the professionals would set a good example...

Thats enough moaning apart from some dodgy weather it was a nice holiday

 

[Reverend Ludd]

Think yourself lucky you are not on a canal in France

 

[cafebloke]

I do , every day

 

[ChrisHanley]

Are we allowed to name and shame?

 

[stuartbaggs]

Go ahead

 

[ChrisHanley]

Lady Muck

Yesterday about six o’clock Sunbury/Shepperton reach. A thirty something foot cruiser called Lady Muck creating a breaking wave big enough to surf on and completely oblivious of the waving, shouting and whistling from all around.

 

[boatone]

Yesterday about six o’clock Sunbury/Shepperton reach. A thirty something foot cruiser called Lady Muck creating a breaking wave big enough to surf on and completely oblivious of the waving, shouting and whistling from all around.

No boat of that name shows as registered on the Thames on the Jim Shead list.

 

[cafebloke]

I definitely found the worst offenders to be the big passenger boats that bomb up and down in the windsor area ...
Shouldn't professionals set a good example to us mere weekenders?

 

[Steve Clayton]

No boat of that name shows as registered on the Thames on the Jim Shead list.

This is the only one in the UK on this d/base

http://www.itu.int/online/mms/mars/ship_detail.sh?lang=en&1800516&LADY+MUCK

 

[ChrisHanley]

I can only tell you that a white cruiser of between thirty five and forty feet called Lady Muck last seen heading round the old river loop of Desborough Island at high speed about 18:45 yesterday

 

[exfinnsailor]

I definitely found the worst offenders to be the big passenger boats that bomb up and down in the windsor area ...
Shouldn't professionals set a good example to us mere weekenders?

Bums on seats. You get a couple of extra trips in a day and who's going to check your speed unless someone complains