Ron Jones submitted this idea :
> Adrian Stott wrote:
>> Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Did the tidal bit from Brentford to Teddington a few weeks ago on an
>>> apparently calm day (certainly nothing like this video) and hated it.
>>> Suffice to say there is no chance of me taking Bream up from
>>> Limehouse next time I'm in London. Not my idea of fun at all!
>>
>> I've done Brentford - Teddington many times, and never encountered any
>> water condition more than a light ripple (although there is a current,
>> of course). Did you really experience "big waves"?
>>
>> There is usually a bit of a chop outside Limehouse lock, but it
>> diminishes as you go upstream and has usually vanished by the time you
>> get to Tower Bridge. Except for those pesky trip boats, there are
>> hardly ever any waves to mention upstream of that.
>>
>> I guess it depends on your schedule:
>>
>> Limehouse -> Teddington via Putney , about three hours
>> Limehouse -> Teddington via Camden, two days plus
>>
>> (and on what you want to see, of course).
>
>
> I agree, the water is usually dead calm past Brentford - unless (like me) you
> meet several gin palaces roaring down the Thames (all at once, because
> richmond had just opened). The only *real* big waves I have seen is round
> the Isle of Dogs (we came out at Bow... in a crusier) where we met a nice man
> in a boat pulling quite a few very full boats of rubbish - bound for Mucking.
> He gave us a merry wave, and sure enough a few minutes later there was a
> serious amount of big waves heading our way, I turned into them and we had
> water splashing over us as the bow hit one peak after another... SWMBO was
> not amused, especially when the waves hit the bank and reflected back..
>
>
Met a bloke this week who did the Thames in a narrowboat, took a green
one over the bow into the front cockpit and it drained via the
ventilation grills into the lounge.
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