Shepperton Raft Race 2025: river restriction notice
Published 11 June 2025
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When
Saturday 14 June 2025, 8am to 4pm.
Where
Sunbury reach, the old river around Shepperton.
Details
The navigation channel will be on the left, south bank of the river.
Marker buoys will be placed along the old river at Shepperton between race start at Nauticalia slipway, TW17 9LQ, and race finish at Lady Lindsays Lawn, TW17 9HB from 8am to 4pm.
Racing will be held between 1pm and 2pm.
The raft race will take place in the buoyed channel on the right, north bank of the river.
Mooring space may be restricted along Manor Park Moorings.
All directions as to the left and right side of the river are given looking upstream.
Byelaws
Nothing contained in these directions shall supersede those parts of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993 and the UK Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996 as may be relevant. Particular attention should be paid to byelaws 24-42 of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993, Steering Sailing and Speed.
And Notice is hereby given, that it is provided by Byelaw 52 of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993 that:
The master of any vessel shall except in an emergency not pass any boat-race regatta public procession or gathering for the launch of a vessel or any other event or function which may cause a crowd to assemble on or by the river nor station his vessel thereon in such a manner as would risk obstructing impeding or interfering with such boat-race regatta procession launching event or function or endangering the safety of persons assembling on the river or preventing or interfering with the maintenance of order thereon.
The maximum penalty for breach of the Byelaws is £1,000.
Read our Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993.