"Neil Arlidge" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Adrian Stott wrote: >> >>>> I think that leisure traffic will not be allowed to use it >>>> until after the Olympics (if at all). The City Mill River, Old >>>> River Lea, Waterworks River, and Bow River will also be closed to >>>> leisure traffic until after the Olympics AIUI. >>>> >>>> Adrian >>>
Neil wrote: >>> ...and for the semi-tidal bits, effectively forever for inland craft >>> of the >>> thin persuasion, seeing as the PLA now control Bow Creek to above Bow >>> Lock(s) >> >> AIUI, the same rules (now) apply on Bow Creek as do on the Thames. >> This isn't much of an additional restriction, as once you've descended >> Bow Lock you're probably going to the Thames as the Creek dries for >> most of the day. OTOH, its sensible, as PLA really does need to >> exercise traffic control given the size of commercial barges that will >> be using the Creek. > >errr...I thought we were talking about pleasure craft using the Tidal Bow >Back Rivers? There are no tidal Bow Back Rivers any more. Well, no navigable ones, anyway. The short tidal bit of the Three Mills Wall River upstream of the House Mill is no longer navigable, as a result of the new weir acoss that River associated with Prescott (Three Mills) lock. All the rest of the BBR are now non-tidal. >Boats going out of Bow Lock(s) and doing the Tidal Bow Back Rivers will now >have to have VHF if over 13.7m and give a route plan and timings to London >VTS. Once you exit Bow Lock after descending, you are in Bow Creek. Bow Creek is not a Bow Back River. However, it is tidal -- very tidal. And very twisty. That's why Bow Creek (and only Bow Creek) has been transferred to PLA for traffic management. It's most unlikely that a boater would want to descend into Bow Creek unless he were heading for the Thames. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
