thames slipways

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Try <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.boatlaunch.co.uk>http://www.boatlaunch.co.uk</A> May be a bit fiddley finding the address, but there are quite a few on there.

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hm. Well, that a bit rubbish - there are hardly any slipways in london. If we had one of those splooshy amphibious cars i need a slipway near Embankment - nothing doing it seems...

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Does this mean you've now got Diana2 on a trailer in your back yard and want somewhere to launch?

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cheers, but that is too far away for me in wrong direction. I want one of those cars that turns into a boat and travel between embankment and praps greenwich. I hear that these craft are made of lovely steel, which of course is the very finest material for boats as we all know.

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cheers, nice little site. But sadly, it confirmas that there are no slipways anywhere near Central London. Hey ho, I may have to get a nordenry car without boating attachments.

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well, it's a good idea if you live in richmondish below that lock and work in the isle of dogs. Or, it wd be cept it wd take hours if under the speed limit. So, no use.

Ort, it wd be a good idea if you lived/worked east of the hungerford bridge, like me. Cept there's no sodding slipways.

So, erm yes, bit hopeless. Not sure where you cd get sensible use out of it. Certtainly not in the thames, really.

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Frog Tours (who are the guys who run spectator trips round Central London and along the Thames in old DUKWs) go into the water at a slipway running down the side of the MI6 building on the South Bank. I don't know if this a public slipway or not but, if not, they've obviously managed to do a deal somehow - which probably involves bugging the seats of olive-skinned visitors with big hair and beards, who want a close look at the river terrace of the Houses of Parliament.......

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Re: Interesting, but stupid

I went to the launch of the Gibbs Aquada thingy in Docklands yesterday...have to say that £150k is a shed load of dosh for something that doesn't appear to be a very good sportscar or a very good boat.

All very nice in theory, but as you say, there aren't that many usable slips in central London (a couple Putney/Chelsea/Wandsworth way, and a couple Greenwich way, but bugger all in between). Plus the thing has a freeboard of about 18 inches so is likely to take on a fair amount of water when the river's a bit lumpy or a damn great barge chugs past (RCD category D, apparently...hmmm). And how much grip will it have going up a steep, slimey slipway? My 4x4 struggles on some of them, what chance a two-wheel-drive sportscar with low-proiles on it? Have visions of yuppies driving into the river and never being able to get back out. Then there's the on-water range: 50 miles (you'd be filling up every other day).

Nice idea, but can't see it being anything other than a very expensive toy. And I can think of plenty better toys for £150k. If it's a fun commuter you want, buy a KTM 520EXC and spend the other £144k on private medical care, fuel for the Leopard, or a wizzy little Thames runabout and a berth at St Kats.

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Could it not drive down steps as in The Italian Job?

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apparently you can buy jet packs in the back of FHM (dont read such drivvle), its always staggered me that the technology for these has not become more accessible...were used at opening of big sporting event years ago and in a bond film

or praps, you need a sort of folding crane attachment in the boot of the amphi car that sort of unfolds and lifts the car into the water and back out again, thus slipways not needed, also useful for removing car from tow truck when you been caught illegally parked

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Could you not just take a running jump off the enbankment with it??

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