St Kats trip

[miket]

Just returned from a delightful trip to St Kats with 3 other UTMYC boats.
Excellent.
St Kats well organised and a pleasure to return to after some years. Well done Camper and Nicholson the new operators.
Side splitting play at Duchess Theatre, The Play that went Wrong. Brilliant evening at Sarastro Turkish restaurant in Drury Lane.
Delighted how well behaved the River Buses were.
Longest stay on our new boat, Haines 32os. Worked well, especially entertaining.

Very depressing return trip from Teddington to Windsor. Oh so many live aboard slum groups. Decided to note the worst areas to pass on to EA, but do not anticipate any serious response.
Large proportion of locks unmanned on return from 4th to 6th Sept.
At Boveney was delighted to see 5 EA Fisheries employees in specialist launch counting fish. I was so pleased to see that my licence fee was being focused so well on improving my Thames experience! I commented on this to the local lock keeper. This raised a wry smile!

Grumpy of Sonning.

 

[rubberduck]

Sounds like its improved, last time we went we decided it would be the last, may go take another look in new boat when it eventually.

 

[oldgit]

St Kats well worth a visit,only gripe was the shower in the east dock floating bog either froze you or boiled you alive.
Not sure that the EA have 5 "fishery" staff.
A couple of EA boat and crew, a DEFRA employee and a student or two perhaps.........
Long term research into all fisheries is being undertaken by several universities into the decline of eel population and condition of other fish populations in both Thames and other UK waterways.
Rod and licence holders have indicated that their main concern is pollution of waterways, possible that that DEFRA choose this day for their water quality checks ?

 

[Actionmat]

They'd be better employed between Walton and Kingston, counting brown trout