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17 March 2014, 14:21
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Boat name: Zonneschijn II/Vixen
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ouch - Princess V57 gets stuck on Richmond Bridge
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17 March 2014, 14:31
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Just paying my insurance bet his premium will be a bit more
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17 March 2014, 14:37
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"The incident is being blamed on strong currents".
Yeah, that and somebody screwing up really badly 
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17 March 2014, 15:02
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Originally Posted by John Kennett
"The incident is being blamed on strong currents".
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Currents on a river, you're kidding???
Here's the video....
The Victoria crashes into Victoria Bridge on The Thames - Mirror Online
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17 March 2014, 15:09
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Country: UK - England
Town: Enfield/Switzerland
Boat name: Zonneschijn II/Vixen
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thomas
Currents on a river, you're kidding???
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Why?
Rivers flow. Times like these when they are in flood they can flow very fast.
I am with John though, someone messed up really bad!!
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17 March 2014, 15:21
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I was joking!!!!!!!!
Looked like he was worried about not fitting through the hole and and tried to turn back, once he went sideways he was doomed.
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17 March 2014, 15:36
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Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Glasgow
Boat name: stramash
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Ow ow ow ... I think the bridge legs, have a sharp angled section to them to split the water flow, bet thats made a right mess of the hull too
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17 March 2014, 17:23
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Country: Finland
Town: Helsinki
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Yes, looks like he was worried about air draft. If he only would have reversed further upstream....would have saved him a lot of troubles and damages.
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17 March 2014, 18:09
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Country: UK - England
Town: Sticks, N.Yorks
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7 ft of extra water should have told him something. Bloody awful boat handling when you look at it.
The sickening crunch of thousands of pounds worth of damage must have really made them feel very ill..... 
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17 March 2014, 19:00
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Town: Southampton
Boat name: Bubbas Bouy
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Nil points on boat handling skills, what a numpty
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17 March 2014, 19:18
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Wakefield
Boat name: Bouncer
Make: Redbay Stormforce
Length: 6m +
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Pretty sure there is a lock there to use
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17 March 2014, 19:46
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Can't tell if you're being serious or not Mick
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17 March 2014, 19:52
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Country: UK - England
Town: Wakefield
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rigi36
Can't tell if you're being serious or not Mick
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Well there is a lock but just looked its on the foot bridge so I got it wrong
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17 March 2014, 20:26
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Never driven anything on the scale of this boat but if he wanted to gauge height wouldn't he had been better to reverse in to the bridge using the currents, using the engines to line up by ferry gliding. He'd always have an escape route with plenty of forward thrust should he need it?
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18 March 2014, 09:47
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Country: Australia
Town: Sydney
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hightower
Never driven anything on the scale of this boat but if he wanted to gauge height wouldn't he had been better to reverse in to the bridge using the currents, using the engines to line up by ferry gliding. He'd always have an escape route with plenty of forward thrust should he need it?
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I agree about backwards, that's what I would have tried, although I probably wouldn't have tried.
I thought this would have a bow thruster, which once again would probably have been more useful heading into the current. Not vey helpful going sideways into such a strong current.
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18 March 2014, 10:56
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That boat probably has ips pod drives. It wouldn't matter about tides or current. You could drive that boat sideways up or down current without even touching the helm. Definitely a that driver
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18 March 2014, 11:19
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Town: Mighty Penryn
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thomas
Currents on a river, you're kidding???
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Call it flow then, but when pinched between bridge uprights it can be hellish.
Just dopey helming. it wasn't gonna ever 'fit' and then they were clueless re. getting it out. If they'd held going astern initially, they may've been ok.
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18 March 2014, 11:19
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Here's part 2, it has been suggested the Uncle Albert was at the helm which would explain it - Looks like it was a 67 not a 57
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18 March 2014, 11:46
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Country: Australia
Town: Sydney
Boat name: Lunasea
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Wow! It did fit, sort of.
I would have liked to have seen it from the other side.
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18 March 2014, 17:43
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mick
Well there is a lock but just looked its on the foot bridge so I got it wrong
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Between Richmond and Teddington lock there is a partial tide flow due to a sill (just down river from this bridge). So there is a lock just below the bridge but it only operates after about half tide. This incident is probably near high tide - so he only would have to wait until the level dropped and then he would have got under easily. The other thing is when the tide drops and the sill kicks in there would be no current at all! There is only tide/current at this point when it has risen above the sill. I know all this as we owned a 50ft Trader which we lived on at Chelsea Harbour. Our air draft was about the same as this boat (approx14ft). There are certain points on the Thames where you have to be accurate in draft as well as bridge height. On a boat like this you can go all the way to Windsor Old Bridge - provided you know what you are doing!!
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