Fun day on the Thames

[Tim Lewis]

 

Not as close as it looks

 

Tim

[NB Alnwick]

 

Not as close as it looks

 

Tim

 

Fell off the back of a lorry?

[Odana]

Very impressive photo! Looks close enough to embellish a tale of how you nearly got mown down.... had to be rescued by the photographer... lucky to be alive .... etc. Give it an hour or two's working up and you might be able to flog the 'story' to a tabloid and make your millions!

[tony collins]

Not as close as it looks

 

Tim

 

Fulbourne looks quite a bit shorter than when I last saw her! Do we now know why?

 

Tony

[ChrisPy]

Reminds me of an event when I was crewing a small yacht crossing the English Channel between Jersey and Devon in the 60s. About 2am there was a disturbance about a hundred metres behind the boat, it looked like a whale coming up. Then a submarine surfaced at fair speed, crossing our wake, and slipped off into the distance. The charts said something to the effect of 'DANGER - submarine exercise area'. Probably still do.

 

Yeh - right! Occupying the shipping lanes over a huge area of the Channel. And if they hit you then it's your fault 'cos you should have kept a better watch. A submarine would never see the navigation lights of a small yacht through the periscope (even if they were looking) in anything other than perfect conditions.

[saltysplash]

Well thats new, ......What happend to the Ernest bevin?????

 

 

Edited to add....dcid they have both ferries running last week due to the BTSA being closed?

Edited January 22, 2009 by saltysplash

[Tim Lewis]

Well thats new, ......What happend to the Ernest bevin?????

 

 

Edited to add....dcid they have both ferries running last week due to the BTSA being closed?

 

The Woolwich Ferry runs a two boat service as a matter of course, it only tends to run a single boat at weekends.

 

 

There are actually three boats, the Ernest Bevin, John Burns, and James Newman.

 

Tim

[Natalie Graham]

 

Not as close as it looks

 

Tim

 

Lucky escape - according to the large warning sign beneath the bridge Boris Johnson was steering.

[Dominic M]

Lucky escape - according to the large warning sign beneath the bridge Boris Johnson was steering.

That's all you want isn't it - the mayor of Trumpton bearing down on you at 14 knots. Or so Petronella Wyatt claimed.

[Neil TNC]

Fulbourne looks quite a bit shorter than when I last saw her! Do we now know why?

 

Tony

 

Why?...have they been tring to wreck Limehouse Lock again? ;-)

<BOING>

[tony collins]

dcid they have both ferries running last week due to the BTSA being closed?

 

 

What has the Woolwich Ferry got to do with the Canadian Department of Education? (Beginning Teach Support & Assessment)?

 

Tony

[NB Willawaw]

Lots of exhaust coming off the James Newman - looks like emergency full astern !!

Edited January 24, 2009 by NB Willawaw