Boat hits Hammersmith Bridge

[Ken X]

Boat of football fans has hit Hammersmith Bridge.

 

Got away with it, could have been a lot worse.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-67680559

 

[Stilllearning]

A certain amount of incompetence compounded by an inability to take into account the state of the tide and the level of fresh water ?

[magnetman]

Qualifications for Boatmaster certificate were watered down fairly recently. 

[Alan de Enfield]

I think the problem is more "waters up" than "watered down"

[magnetman]

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. 

 

 

[ditchcrawler]

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[blackrose]

From memory it's the lowest bridge on the Thames or on that stretch isn't it? I remember having to help take a wheelhouse down on a large Dutch style barge to get under it.

[Stroudwater1]

In other words - insufficient weight of fans on board causes  it to be too high to pass under a bridge. 🤣
 

Should be a better supported club 😎

 

 

Could have been very nasty, glad all was OK. 

[Sailbadthesinner]

Looks like he wasn't quite at the highest point of the bridge. 

 

[magpie patrick]

7 minutes ago, Stroudwater1 said:

insufficient weight of fans on board

 

Should be a better supported club 😎

 

Or heavier fans... 

 

Maybe fans of West Ham are a bit lightweight... 

[Nightwatch]

HMSJupiter hit one of the bridges.London Bridge.  Skipper reckoned he didn’t need the offered tugs. WRONG!.

https://www.google.com/search?q=HMS+Jupiter+hits+Thames+bridge&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

Edited December 11, 2023 by Nightwatch

[David Mack]

5 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:

Skipper reckoned he didn’t need the offered tugs. WRONG!.

For which he was court martialled.

[Guest]

Looks like he was aiming for the arrow.

 

So in that respect it was a bulls eye.

[Stroudwater1]

17 minutes ago, M_JG said:

Looks like he was aiming for the arrow.

 

So in that respect it was a bulls eye.

First West Ham object on target all season so far tbh 🤣

[Ken X]

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.🙂

[Wanderer Vagabond]

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

[blackrose]

On 11/12/2023 at 19:15, Stilllearning said:

A certain amount of incompetence compounded by an inability to take into account the state of the tide and the level of fresh water ?

 

In other words the skipper was a RANK amateur.

[droshky]

On 11/12/2023 at 16:06, magpie patrick said:

 

Or heavier fans... 

 

Maybe fans of West Ham are a bit lightweight... 

I am, but I can tell you it’s not the norm, check replica kit sales by size