Walton small boats head race 2016: river restriction notice
Published 23 November 2016
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When
Saturday 10 December 2016, from 9am to 4:30pm
Where
Sunbury Reach
Details
- The navigation channel will be on the north, Shepperton, right hand side of the river (when looking upstream). The navigation channel will be on the old river course around Desborough Island and the north channel around D’Oyly Carte Island.
- Racing boats will be using the south, Weybridge and Walton, left hand side of the river (when looking upstream). This side of the river will be closed to normal river traffic including the Desborough Cut and the south channel around D’Oyly Carte Island.
- Regatta boards will mark the upstream and downstream extent of the course.
- Casual mooring to the towpath or anchoring anywhere between D’Oyly Carte Island and Walton Rowing Club is not allowed.
- Mooring at all authorised public, commercial or domestic moorings is allowed provided that all directions given by our Waterway Officers are followed.
- Masters of all boats to maintain a safe speed and lookout from D’Oyly Carte Island to Walton Rowing Club.
- 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.
- Bathing is not allowed in the river on the course during the hours of racing.
Byelaws
Nothing contained in these directions shall supersede those parts of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993 as may be relevant.
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.