Tideway moorings

[Portland Billy]

It would be rather nice if PLA could provide a couple of tideway moorings between Teddington and the City.
Floating pontoons or similar would suffice, and reasonable mooring fees could be charged remotely.
But I doubt if they would be interested in non commercial traffic.

 

[oldgit]

It would be rather nice if PLA could provide a couple of tideway moorings between Teddington and the City.
Floating pontoons or similar would suffice, and reasonable mooring fees could be charged remotely.
But I doubt if they would be interested in non commercial traffic.

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Would need enough water to float boats on LWS, especially the biggies in spring and autumn. so mebbe need at least 6 feet under any keel.,some bigger leisure boats might already draw 5-6 ft, so would need minimum depth of 12 ft at LWS.
This would limit just how far upstream moorings could be located . ?
Is there not a couple of commercial bouys just above Brentford. ?
For the inexperienced,picking up bouy in a tidal flow can be fun, as anybody who has picked up a bouy outside ST Kats will confirm.

 

[Portland Billy]

Did you mean bUOys ?

 

[Leighb]

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For the inexperienced,picking up bouy in a tidal flow can be fun, as anybody who has picked up a bouy outside ST Kats will confirm.

it was not the tidal flow but the wash of all the passing traffic that I found a problem, lost one boathook and broke another. After that we just arrived about the right time and just stemmed the tide until it was time to enter, much more relaxing.

 

[oldgit]

it was not the tidal flow but the wash of all the passing traffic that I found a problem, lost one boathook and broke another. After that we just arrived about the right time and just stemmed the tide until it was time to enter, much more relaxing.

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