Thames Sailing Club Battle of the Thames SUP 2021: river restriction notice
Published 23 April 2021
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When
Saturday 12 June 2021, from 10:30am to 4pm.
Where
Teddington reach, Ravens’ Ait (Surrey - left hand channel).
Details
The Surrey, left hand channel of Ravens’ Ait will be closed, the navigation channel will be on the Middlesex, right hand side of the river.
SUPs will be using a buoyed channel 50 metres upstream of Ravens’ Ait to 50 metres downstream of Ravens’ Ait, on the Surrey, left hand side of the river.
Regatta boards will mark the upstream and downstream extent of this channel.
Thereafter SUPs will continue downstream turning above Kingston Railway Bridge and returning upstream to Ravens’ Ait, following the normal rules of navigation.
Racing will start at 10:30am and will be over by 4pm.
Masters of all boats to maintain a safe speed and lookout between Kingston Railway Bridge and Ravens’ Ait.
All boats must be navigated in accordance with any instructions given from Environment Agency control points or patrol launches.
Those in charge of boats should be aware that they are responsible for avoiding collision and should use all available means appropriate to the circumstances and conditions to decide if there is a risk of immediate danger and avoid it.
All directions as to the left and right hand 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