Elessar
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I like the where is it posts.
How about which pub is it?
How about which pub is it?
Try this one - the sequel
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byron
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The Plough, Long Wittenham
apollo
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Agreed, probably not this year as its not in flood!!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Elessar
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should have guessed you'd know it's a day trip for you. yes correct!
must find a harder one.........
must find a harder one.........
Elessar
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was this year and it certainly wasn't in flood - had to lift the legs to scrape through........
byron
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It was the jetty shape that gave it away for me. Mel, The Landlord there who has just retired would do anything for the boating fraternity.
apollo
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Lovely spot, normally have to moor three out as its very popular.
miket
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I was going to add a note of caution.
I ruined a prop on my Nimbus 345 3 or 4 years ago, on the last corner before the pub. Spoke to Mel and he had been trying to get EA to do something about it. Unsurprisingly they wouldn't.
I ruined a prop on my Nimbus 345 3 or 4 years ago, on the last corner before the pub. Spoke to Mel and he had been trying to get EA to do something about it. Unsurprisingly they wouldn't.
byron
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Spoke to Mel and he had been trying to get EA to do something about it. Unsurprisingly they wouldn't.
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Almost from the day Mel moved in he chased everyone to do something about the depths but they just weren't interested. In my opinion just running a tug through there once a year would have scoured the channel enough, it is after all only soft silt.
Spoke to Mel and he had been trying to get EA to do something about it. Unsurprisingly they wouldn't.
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Almost from the day Mel moved in he chased everyone to do something about the depths but they just weren't interested. In my opinion just running a tug through there once a year would have scoured the channel enough, it is after all only soft silt.
Brayman
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Wasn't the Numbus any good at doing that then?
apollo
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Not just silt, there is another concrete chunk down there much like the one over below Clifton Lock, cos my dad bent his "P" Bracket on it in the old Cobra 8 years back.
Maybe MBM could do another article on it and get another politically correct answer back from EA like in this last months mag. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
"Its not in the channel old boy", problem is as the channel gets narrower and narrower due to silting - pretty much all the river is not in the channel.
Maybe MBM could do another article on it and get another politically correct answer back from EA like in this last months mag. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
"Its not in the channel old boy", problem is as the channel gets narrower and narrower due to silting - pretty much all the river is not in the channel.
byron
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I am not aware of a concrete block along there, as regards turning one goes a short way further upstream to turn. I suggest the bent P bracket came from a sunken log which has been removed.
Did your Dad have a Toughs Cobra 33? If so what a fine sea boat. I had one too in the early 1970s. It would iron out the roughest of seas.
Did your Dad have a Toughs Cobra 33? If so what a fine sea boat. I had one too in the early 1970s. It would iron out the roughest of seas.
apollo
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Yes, it was a Toughs Cobra 33, he is now retired and the boat went to Rye in Sussex.
Chris_d
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Found the log a couple of years ago and a big chunk out of a prop to prove, did sound like a concrete log at the time /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Tried again only a couple of weeks ago with legs raised as far as possible and hit lots of gravel and silt, definately not going to risk it again.
TrueBlue
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To be fair -
to EA (why one should, of course is another matter), you are all talking about a weir stream - yes, I know it's the old river meander, and no part of it is the channel, so EA don't have to maintain it.
At least that's what the local Nav: Offices tell me. The real issue for me is that "channel" is a moving target (no pun or the like intended) as I can't find an accurate definition, especially as the full bylaws as effectively hidden. Without that it's very difficult to act to get things changed.
Mostly weir streams are self dredged ( /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif ) by the lorra' water flowing down them... but as I have a WSoB the odd lump just lifts the whole craft up..
The whole issue comes back to funding. If "we" can persuade more paying folks (back) onto the River the EA should have more funds to make improvements.
However, that's far too serious an issue to discuss here.
to EA (why one should, of course is another matter), you are all talking about a weir stream - yes, I know it's the old river meander, and no part of it is the channel, so EA don't have to maintain it.
At least that's what the local Nav: Offices tell me. The real issue for me is that "channel" is a moving target (no pun or the like intended) as I can't find an accurate definition, especially as the full bylaws as effectively hidden. Without that it's very difficult to act to get things changed.
Mostly weir streams are self dredged ( /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif ) by the lorra' water flowing down them... but as I have a WSoB the odd lump just lifts the whole craft up..
The whole issue comes back to funding. If "we" can persuade more paying folks (back) onto the River the EA should have more funds to make improvements.
However, that's far too serious an issue to discuss here.
