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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: GerryBags on May 04, 2018, 09:09:21 pm ---It's pretty amazing, really, that anyone can rock up at Barnet Marine, buy a 70 Knot RIB, drive it down to a slipway on the tidal Thames and blat past Parliament at full speed. Or.... maybe not Parliament, now I think about it, definitely down-river of Wandsworth Bridge, though. The only reason private skippers need a license for 25M+ barges now is because EU demanded it.
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You can't do that there is a strict 12 knot speed limit on the Thames up as far as Wandsworth bridge and 8 knots from there up river.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 04, 2018, 04:32:12 pm ---We used to have a perfectly good fleet of Harriers, Jaguars, Tornadoes and some nice new shiny Nimrods...
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The Nimrods were never nice nor new nor shiny.
When first built in the 1970s, some bright spark decided to base them on the far too small 1950s Comet airframe. It was all downhill after that.
GerryBags:
I was sure it never used to be. Clarkson did it in a Sunseeker Predator many moons ago... he probably had special dispensation, though :)
Just had a look, 2008 was when they changed the speed regs on the Thames. I wouldn't have guessed it was as long ago as that, when I was last mucking about on the river, but it really is. Speed limits were only ever of theoretical concern to me, anyway, as I never had a boat that could break any of them. Even the 48' one topped out at 7.5 knts.
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 04, 2018, 09:18:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 04, 2018, 04:32:12 pm ---We used to have a perfectly good fleet of Harriers, Jaguars, Tornadoes and some nice new shiny Nimrods...
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<politics deleted>
The Nimrods were never nice nor new nor shiny.
When first built in the 1970s, some bright spark decided to base them on the far too small 1950s Comet airframe. It was all downhill after that.
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In 2011 there was a fleet of new Nimrods that were dismantled and destroyed before they had even flown, as part of the fore mentioned cuts this BBC clip relates to that tremendous waste of money.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12294766
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: GerryBags on May 04, 2018, 09:27:00 pm ---I was sure it never used to be. Clarkson did it in a Sunseeker Predator many moons ago... he probably had special dispensation, though :)
Just had a look, 2008 was when they changed the speed regs on the Thames. I wouldn't have guessed it was as long ago as that, when I was last mucking about on the river, but it really is. Speed limits were only ever of theoretical concern to me, anyway, as I never had a boat that could break any of them. Even the 48' one topped out at 7.5 knts.
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Yep Clarkeson would have had special permission as he does on everything else even getting roads closed for Top Gear. :-+
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