Serenity Malc

You're perfectly correct Dekazer ........ he's a fine chap who will get to know everyone who dares to moor on Her Majesty's lawns. From Kingston Bridge to Hampton Court.

Apparently ..... some of the students survived. SM.

I'm told that Mondays can be of particular amusement ..... or worry ..... due to it being student night in the town of Kingston. Many recent anecdotes regarding a number of drunken students jumping onto the roofs of boats moored on the south bank. Serenity Malc.

A multiple sense of humour failure ? ...... now that's made me snigger out loud !

I believe the answers is yes .... Blackrose. #)

I think there are 12v to 18v ( variable ) DC to DC powers supplies available ...... they take your variable 12v battery power supply and can be tuned as it were to produce a stable 18v or 19v supply for a laptop. As has been said, you may have to be creative to connect the laptop input plug. Serenity Malc.

To comment on MTB's words earlier in this thread ...... you're correct Mike in that ANY class / type / colour of craft will no doubt be treated in exactly the same way ..... BUT ....... the areas very specifically designated and mapped out in the new bylaw are only inhabited by the presumably less affluent boaters of the borough ...... or those who care not to spend their money on rediculous marina fees ...... or wish to opt out of the more regular social model.

I'm not on Twitter either ..... but the link still works for me. You'll just have to take my word for it that the police are very much involved with the application of the new LBR bylaw ...... having seen them in action at the other end of the borough to Teddington yesterday.

Many congratulations on finding your "dream boat" ........ I hope all goes well and as smoothly as you would like. An experienced surveyor is what you need ...... as has been mentioned he / she should be able to make a first impression comment on for example the electrical or gas systems, before any deeper inspection is done. However, you do want your surveyor to be thorough and exacting. That's what you're paying him / her for after all. Good luck !

To comment on WV's questions .... I meant by 'illegal' boats that there are many unlicenced sheds there. Illegal boaters because they each presumably have owners / masters who are now breaking the new LBR bylaw. However, from living here for a number of years I happen to be aware of some of their habits of collecting other peoples possessions, use and sale of illegal substances and that's before any thought is given to their UK status. I absolutely no idea how they all got on in last years floods ....... I was plenty busy keeping my own craft off the bank and accessible. I used 5 metre and 2 metre scaffold poles with scaffold clips to survive ...... but then I was out of the main stream. Loddon has kindly posted a link to prove my comments on the police involvement in this action ........ since you seem to doubt my word !

I think that pilings in the river is a somewhat overstatement of the feeble attempts of the Teddington liveaboards to try to circumnavigate the 'attached to land' definition of being moored. As previously mentioned, it would only take one of the many Party boats on the Thames or a few days of rain to shift any temporary scaffold pole arrangements. They are only a foot or so from the bank. I walked down the towpath from West Molesey to Hampton Court today and watched 8 or 10 hi-vis wearing officials, of which many appeared from a police people carrier, apply tickets to the half dozen of so sheds at Garrick's Lawn at Hampton. So they really are going for it. Serenity Malc.

They're only a foot or so from the bank .... but having experienced the flow on the Thames for a few years, it will take more than a few tapped in scaffold poles to hold a boat there.

I see on the London BBC news slot that some of the Teddington lock boaters are busy trying to knock scaffold poles into the river bed to moor off ...... as opposed to actually being attached to the LBR land. Methinks that they won't be there for long ......

I'm guessing that scores of illegal sheds and their owner / tenants will be trying to head up the GU from Brentford from tomorrow on ...... either that or they'll try to head up stream passed Sunbury. I expect they'll be traveling out of lock keeping hours as they will mostly be unlicenced.

My licence application form from the EA this year came preprinted with my last home mooring address under the sub heading of 'normal boat address' ..... but then again I disposed of the application form after the licence had been issued. I thanked you for the offer at the time Blackrose ..... but I didn't care to use my dingy every time I wanted land access. Plus I now have moved downstream nearer to my homelands and family. I'm waiting on a local eyot to offer me a home mooring ....... then I can be as smug as the rest of you ..... regarding Thames moorings.