Narrowboat NIGHTMARE on the Thames! | A Race Against Time | Part Two | Vlog 95
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How bad can the tidal Thames get?
Lets just say, our little narrowboat was bobbing up and down so much Jan was ill...
But, did we make it in time to get through the lock at Limehouse???
(Our heartfelt thanks to Chris and Steve from / lifeonboardamyjo for allowing us to use their footage)
Part Two
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The building on the right is MI6.
Back in the 1970s I was on a small speedboat powered by an outboard engine - first time ever. Went from Putney all the way down to Tower Bridge where the engine promptly conked out. We missed slack water and the wind veered before we fixed it and then started back. My the rollercoaster rides under the bridges. You just don't realise how choppy it can get. It was dusk by the time we made Putney and both the wind had settled and the chop had gone and we purred along. But I'll never forget those City bridges, and not for the right reasons!
Yes it is M16 but we're supposed to keep it secret 😉
Very choppy indeed, don't think the incoming wind helped either. I can imagine it's a bit scary in a small boat because it was pretty butt clenching in a 60ft 20ton narrowboat!!! 😨
Wild ride on the Tidal Thames !!
Yes Mary...wild 🥸
That’s some BAFTA TH-cam editing stuff right there!!!!!!
Thank you Jim! 👍🏆
Congrats on not bouncing off the side as you turned into Limehouse.
I spent ages practising it in my head with the best bit of advice - imaging your driving a car on ice...
Worked a treat!
You poor poor boaters...!! So frustrating for you and what a shame and poor Jan retching on that part... so so up and down! Felt sick watching the boat!! Lovely chat at Teddington... crappy chap at the other!!! What can I say about Aquavista.... I have no words.... xx
Thanks Lynette. I think they know our feelings although have still to receive an explanation or apology for their employees actions (or lack of!)
Hi Tony Jan ,that was a interesting trip on the Thames 😊most enjoyable some great buildings on the river bank ,as you know I worked on boats all my working life so when you said it was rough I had to laugh a little I’m used to 2/3/4 meters high but I was in my tugboat as skipper in the wash and you was in a flat bottom narrowboat so I guess it was a little rough for you ,sorry Jan felt a little sea sick ,I really enjoyed this blog thank you so much so interesting,John 👀🌹👏🙏🫶🇬🇧🤝
Hi John.👍
Flat bottom boats don't like chop! Jan definitely didn't enjoy it.
I'd certainly never experienced the prop leaving the water and feeling the resultant vibration under foot. Quite unnerving 😲
I've been out in fishing boats out of Lowestoft when I worked in TV, filming a little fishing sequence, where it was so rough the horizon kept disappearing 🙃
Back in the 70s we took a small cruiser down to Tower Bridge and back. Only minor problem was it taking less time than anticipated and led to a long wait for the tide to turn while tied to a fueling barge below the bridge. On the trip up the Lee and Stort we went via the Grand Union and Regents canals onto the Hertford Union at Mile End.
The advantage of the cruiser was it going over the waves rather than through them.
Ahhh yes, the disadvantages on a tidal river of having a flat bottom!!! More of a challenge in a narrowboat 👍
Hi Yes Old Father Thames gets a bit lumpy between Westminster and Greenwich. Cheers
🤣🤣🤣 definitely!
Late to the show, enjoyed the 4 hour tour and this follow up.
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you Frank 👍
Great to meet you earlier.
👍 Thanks for helping to save our space..😆
@@MakingNewMemories it was so nice to meet you and chat. What a great place to moor too 😊
Your boat was certainly rocked ….🙈
🤣🤣🤣👍
good vid on channel with frends steve and chris and smudge good see you put good vid out thanks lee
Thank you Lee. Yes, been cruising with AmyJo for the last 6 weeks or so. 👍
I bet you remember that trip better than the smooth ones. Somehow when things go wrong it always provides the best memories.
🤣 certianly made some new memories there...!!!
Sorry you had such a time of it but I have to say I enjoyed the video, especially the sound of water. I grew up sailing on the North Sea and really miss being afloat.
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it! 👍
Thanks, a nice video. There have been some issues about lock opening times at Limehouse this year, driven by water supply issues from the Lea. It would be helpful to know which date this trip was made on, and exactly when you were told the lock was open. (On some days Limehouse is only open HW-2 to HW+2, while it should be HW-4 to HW+4. The former is really difficult for a downriver transit. I would have advised setting off a bit later than low water on the way upstream.
A couple of other thoughts:
* MI5 is on the left bank, behind HURLINGHAM
* you can see the slow flashing white light on Westminster Bridge, which normally means something big and hard to maneuver wants to use the arch.
* Tower Bridge if you take the centre arch you should aim for the white line to right of center
* Esp if short of time, it's perfectly feasible and much faster to make the direct entry to Limehouse, ferry gliding across the river, after talking to VTS on the radio
I'm looking forward to entering Limehouse about 2100 on Saturday, after the Reflections flotilla in memory of Her majesty the Queen.
Thanks Simon.
Head over to Twitter if you want to know dates etc., we do mention times of lock operation in the video.
As you know there are two tides a day, so when asked why they wouldn't open the lock on the later high tide we were told by the lockie that he wouldn't be there and that was a Saturday. Guessing he wasn't working a full day, so if you're planning on going in on a Saturday evening I'd make sure there's someone willing to work overtime!
Their whole attitude was one of being totally unhelpful - not unlocking the gate at the top of the pontoon so we could escape the ravages of staying on the boat in the swell and enjoy a cuppa with friends??
He also let another boat in before we got there who hadn't booked and we think he thought that was us!
The whole operation was totally unprofessional and dangerous.
Both CRT and PLA took a very dim view of them and their actions when we sent our report to them.
As for your observations, hindsight is wonderful, but I'll challenge anyone to try and steer a narrowboat under those circumstances and keep it in a straight line, especially when most of the time the prop is out of the water because those bloody ribs criss cross in front of you to maximise the swell!!
And as you know, M15 and M16 are secret...sssshhh 😉
@@MakingNewMemories Thank you. As you've already reported this incident to CRT I don't need to follow up on the details -- I have been in discussion with CRT about the general issues at Limehouse (and the online booking system at Brentford) for months. I am though genuinely surprised by the point about not turning up later. With advance warning the lock should be available between 0500 and 2200. On 6/8 the second high tide was 2020 BST, so (with a booking) you should have been able to get in shortly after 1800 (ie outside normal working hours). If there hadn't been a shortage of water in the basin then you should have been able to get in around 1620 (in normal working hours where in theory booking is not needed, but still strongly advised).
Lateral positioning is indeed tricky, and quite often requires strong steering action (ie pointing the boat in quite a counter-intuitive direction!).
Also worth noting that Aquavista have put in another planning application to replace the current short term moorings on the wall with pontoons. A number of people have objected again (I think the deadline has now passed).
Wnat a shame - a blurry jobsworth..
Remember it's a commercial waterway and sometimes the local staff
Agree Harry, some good old fashioned customer service wouldn't have gone amiss. 👍
WOW! What an experience 😮 So much worse than you described it to us! You both did amazing 👏🏻 well done!! So dangerous of the lock keeper to leave you in such a dangerous situation, shocked to see that they could see you coming and still closed it! 😠
Great editing, felt like we were there with you!
The difference between Amy jo’s trip, can’t believe it!! 😮
Great vlog 👏🏻
Awwww thank you both for your lovely comments 😊
As we say, it's not usually like that and the better journey is to go up the GU and along the Regents to Paddington and into Limehouse, then come out like AmyJo....early morning = no big trip boats making acres of wash! 😨
Glad you got back safely.
Thanks Cathy, it was a relief to finally get back!
Sorry you got mucked about amazing how tidal that river is.
And then add in the wind and you've got some very high chop! 😲
Blimey! It was just as you described Jan. What a nightmare. Stick to the Oxford…much calmer.
...and back on the canals...relax...a bit!
Wow! What a trip. Thank you so much for all the useful information ℹ️ at the end. Hope Jan did not swallow too much Thames water. We loved watching this Vlog very much. Xx
Thank you both so much! Glad you found it helpful. 👍
Missing you guys...(and Blue) 😪
What a ride 👌
I hear its the latest ride at Alton Towers 🤣
Jan I would have been right there with you 🤢😱and worse 😁 what a helmsman ⚓glad you both in one piece what an adventure 💞💞💞
Awwww thank you so much Elizabeth ❤️
great effort on The Thames Tony & Jan with a good ending. Great views of London thank you. Keith
Thank you Keith...we live to tell the tale! 👍
Thanks for taking us on this cruise but it's a shame that the 'lockie' was a thoughtless idiot. It's great to see that you are both safe and well. Take care and all the best. Stevie
Thanks Stevie. 👍
We think he needs a refresher course in customer care...
Excellent Vlog - very exciting!!
Thank you ❤️
my husband john and I Came from new zealand and went on the London Eye it was amazing
You get a great view of the city from the Eye!
Nice to meet you earlier at Dukes lock. Just watched Part 2 of the Tidal Thames. OMG how brave were you! Felt every roll of the Thames. Take care both.
Ha! Lovely to meet you, albeit fleetingly. 👍
Nope nope and more nope!!! We were there in May (London that is). We walked along and over the Thames and I thought about what it might be like on a nb…having just been on one for a week. yikes!!! No WAYYYY!! Well done you! I’m glad you’re all okay. Now you have a great story to tell! Just looked so rough! Poor Jan!
Thank you Jayne! ❤️
Jan's got over it and can laugh about it now. I was surprised she had a whisky when we finally joined Chris and Steve. First time she's ever had one, but it was to calm her nerves!
@@MakingNewMemories I don’t blame her one little bit!!
It looks amazing! One day we will get on there xx
Got to give it a go 👍
Thanks for sharing your experience and some sound advice as well,maybe one to do in the future
Cheers Gary. It's definitely doable, just triple check everything and give yourself plenty of time. 👍
Crickey that was worse than going over the wash. I'm going the way you said at the end. Seems safer. Great info and filming.
Thanks Will. Yes that route is a lot better, plus you get to go on the Regents Canal and experience a lot more of London.
Very annoying! But, as you guys know, life isn't always a bowl of cherries! ATM ate my card today ...
Sorry to hear you've lost your card, as long as you haven't lost any money 👍
What a disappointed for you not to get through lock. I've got to say you two are brave, cruising against the tidal Thames, your a bloody good booster Tony. Jan you must have been bricking it on occasion. Love you both. ❤
Awwww Sheila what can we say? Thank you for your kind words 🙏 😊
Wow this is crazy! Thanks for all the insights - good to know. Hope you’re both ok. Xx
Thank you! Yes, all fully recovered now. Wobbling like jelly at the time though! 😯
Well what an adventure and a bit of a disappointment. At least you can laugh about it now.
🤣 Certianly something to remember!
Sorry about your unpleasant experience but it could have been worse if all the trip boats had been working. I owned a Dunkirk Little Ship from 1995 to 2010 and each year they do a Return to a port or Dunkirk every 5th year, so 96 we went to Limehouse, I kept my boat at Wraysbury at the end of a friend's garden, so not too far of a journey. We had a great time and dinners in the Club house and a Riverside pub.
On another journey years later, I came upriver from the Medway on the way to Limehouse, on approach I got a huge sand back wrapped in a prop. OK the boat had twin engines but only one rudder so steering was OK one way but useless the other. Like you I had to do a 160 and stem then get in and wait for the bridge, once on the pontoon in the marina the bag fell off. It was beers all round in the club after that.
In the two years I kept Lazy Days at Wraysbury and later at Albert Dock I've never had bad service, in fact the upper Thames lock keepers knew the boat and introduced themselves to me.
Happy barging you two and stay safe. Thanks for post and reminding me of some great times.
Thank you for sharing some great stories and memories, truly fascinating to hear of those times.
The EA lock keepers upstream have all been incredibly helpful and now work even harder than in previous years, so hats off to them! 👍
All in all tho, the footage you filmed was fantastic. I've never been close to waters that were affected by "the tide". All I know is that as a child was told "the moon affects the tides". Don't understand it at all. How/why/where/when, etc. I've been on boats for years, but never experienced rough waters like you folks. That looked scary. In fact, I was being a little sea sick. lol Take care you two. I enjoy your videos and the sights that you share with all of us. We thank you. Sandy from Ohio, USA.
Thank you Sandy. It's all to do with the gravitational force of the moon and rotation of the earth although I still don't fully understand it, all I know is the tides can be quite vicious sometimes so treat them with care 😲
Enjoyed the vlogs. We watch you from NZ. Shame about your Limehouse experience. Back in the day we used to call them Jobs Worths. He should be ashamed. Anyway great experience for you both and I loved the scenery and commentary. Keep them coming please.
Thank you so much for your lovely comments, so pleased you enjoyed it. 👍❤️
Scarey at the time, but we look back on it as a huge experience.
Glad you are both safe, that was quite a trip
Absolutely knackered at the end of the day, but we live to fight another day! 👍
Sorry you never got through the locks but it was still an exciting adventure to watch. Where would you have gone had got through (Don't just say down the Thames.😁😁).
We were planning on meeting with Chris and Steve on AmyJo and going out for a meal with them on Saturday, overnighting and then heading back to Teddington on Sunday (as they ended up doing)
Wow, that looked a scary journey, give me calm canals any day, you both did so well, felt for you Jan i would have been screaming all the way too. 👍♥️
😨Yes it was a bit Tracy...but we live to tell the tale! 👍
Well done guys!! Have been eagerly waiting this vlog since hearing first hand about your experience. Great vlog and very well done for surviving!! Love Myles and Marina (Cruising Alba)❤
Thanks Myles! Hope we didn't make it sound worse than it actually was!! 😕
Love to you both ❤️
What camera set up do you use, very good quality pictures.
Thanks for asking Martin.
We use a Sony AX53, GoPro Hero 7, Insta360, a DJI Mini2 and a SonyS21+
Great use of dramatic music, felt every wave with you 🤢😂
Felt so sorry for you after all that effort 😤🥺
But you both just continue to smile and stay jolly 😀
Take care 😘
Thank you so much Julie, ❤️
YOU SHOULD TRY GOING UP RIVER.....QUIETER AND FAR MORE SCENIC....
Next couple of vlogs...😉
OMG I FEEL SEA SICK.............................
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How can Boat so fast on that River Must be Speed cannot go over?
8knts (9mph) to Wandsworth Bridge, then 12knts (13.8mph) through central London, so quite fast!
What an absolute turd to say and do that to you ! Hope karma visits him soon. At least you laugh at it all now. Well done both !!
Awwww thank you Jan 😊
Still waiting for a reply from Aquavista...😒
The building on the right is MI6 not 5 although you passed 5 too a bit later. Don’t tell anyone sssssh
Secrets safe with me. Won't tell a soul..😉