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Ken X

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Qualifications for Boatmaster certificate were watered down fairly recently. 

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Oh yes.

 

I wonder also if the headroom has been temporarily lowered due to works on the bridge. 

 

If it was a few inches lower than written in the book relative to datum and you got a tide reading it could all go a bit wrong. That white bar looks suspicious. 

 

 

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Now, if there had been lots more beer on board maybe they would have made it.

 

This is my plan for our next attempt at the Frogall tunnel.  I just need to convince OC Domestic.  Perhaps wine would work better.🙂

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23 hours ago, magnetman said:

Qualifications for Boatmaster certificate were watered down fairly recently. 

Was it ever that high? From my experience of trip boats on the Thames, they didn't display a lot of competence, but then they only have people on board. By contrast, the tug-boats pulling the barges full of London's waste were absolutely excellent;)

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  • 9 months later...

Frankly the boat damage is a sideshow to the ongoing closure of this important river crossing in the capital city. It's ben over 5 years since it closed and as it's local to me, I can see the fabric of the bridge visibly decaying. The roadway is almost entirely rotten - tarmac gone and various steel plate and incredibly phenol ply board bodges are becoming visible. There is now obvious and worrying corrosion damage to the cast iron chains. 

There's an intractable dispute about funding the much needed repair, or even the probably more needed replacement. A product of the ideological Tory 'austerity' that has bankrupted other councils.

Who cares if a boat hit it - it's a ruin already. 

A testament to Tory political vandalism, perhaps not as eloquent as the still standing hoarding covered Grenfell Tower building, but another statement of the deliberate undermining of civil society that we've seen in the UK. Just one of the corrupt fast track contracts for unusable PPE could have sorted this out, let alone the billions that simply vanished into Dido Harding's little scheme via her Jockey Club chum Hancock. 

 

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