Notice

Weybridge winter head race 2018: river restriction notice

Published 24 November 2017

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When

Saturday 20 January 2018, 9am to 4:30pm.

Where

Sunbury Reach (Environment Agency Sunbury depot to upstream side of the Desborough Channel).

Details

  • The navigation channel will be on the Middlesex, right-hand side of the river and the Old River Channel at Shepperton between the Sunbury Environment Agency depot and the upstream side of the Desborough Channel.
  • Racing boats will be using the Surrey, left-hand side of the river and the Desborough Channel, which will be closed to navigation between 9am and 4:30pm.
  • Regatta boards will mark the upstream and downstream extent of the course.
  • Masters of all boats to maintain a safe speed and lookout between the head of D’Oyle Carte Island and the tail of Desborough Channel.
  • 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 left and right are given looking upstream.

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.

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