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]

The club seems to have problems with the Thames Fulham's crowd 'ferries' spark anger with campaigners as they disrupt the river and The Boat Race | Daily Mail Online

[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

[Tim Lewis]

Boat master prosecuted:

 

Port of London Authority successfully prosecutes Master of the “Emerald of London” vessel which struck Hammersmith Bridge on 10 December 2023 | Port of London Authority (pla.co.uk)

[Tigerr]

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. 

 

[Ogwr]

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

 

Or heavier fans... 

 

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

Fulham obviously meed a better pie supp;ier.