The Boater Issue 133 May-Aug 2018 The Boater - Issue 133 - Bumper Edition Editor: Jane Percival (Content) Dep. Editor: Mike Phillips (Layout, Artwork) Front & Back Covers: Peter Scrutton Contents 1. Contents 2. TVBC Calendar 3. Welcome Aboard 4. Club News Section 4. Clewer Island BBQ in aid of “MOMENTUM” 6. New Members and Boats 8. Fitting Out Supper& Awards 12. Beale Park Boat Show 17. TVBC Social Evening at ‘The Bells’ 18. Royal Swan Upping + “Nesta” Part Two 28. The First Ever Trad Rally 31. The Day the Rally Died 33. The Trophy Winners at the TTBF 2018 34. The 40th Thames Traditional Boat Festival 36 TTBF Photos from Amersham Photo Society 40. Featured Boat: “Lady Emma” 48. The Voyage of “Lamara” - Part 1 51. Thames Yards revisited - Thornycroft 55. Crossword no.75 56. The Big Picture Advertisers 5. Momentum (Charity) 11. HSC & Saxon Moorings 27. Henwood & Dean 27. River Thames News 38. Tim O’Keefe 47. Stanley & Thomas Back Cover: Classic Restoration Services Cover Picture: “Lady Emma” with boatbuilder Colin Henwood at the helm of his beautiful restoration (Full article p.40). Photo Credits-pages: 4,5 Jane Percival: 9,10 John Llewellyn: 6,7 Photos supplied by owners past & present: 24(L), 25, 31,32 Mike Phillips: 48-50: Ed White 51-54 John Llewellyn. Other photo credits are with the article. The Editor welcomes contributions to ‘The Boater’, which should be Emailed to: Jane Percival: - [email protected] For details on how to send photos, see page 3 1 The Boater Issue 133 May-Aug 2018 TVBC Calendar for 2018-2019 NOTE: Unless marked otherwise, contact Theresa, the Hon Secretary, for details [email protected] July 2018: Weds 4th-Sun 8th : Henley Royal Regatta Mon 16th to Fri 20th : Royal Swan Upping: TVBC boats provide the towing (organiser: Colin Patrick - contact [email protected] ) Fri 20th to Sun 22ⁿd : The Thames Traditional Boat Festival, Henley. August 2018: Fri 3rd to Sun 5th: TVBC Boveney Lock Rally (organiser Jane: [email protected]) Fri 24th to Mon 27th: TVBC Cookham Lock Island Rally: Bank Holiday Weekend (Organiser:Theresa: [email protected]) Sat 25th to Sun 26th: ATYC rally at Kingston (TVBC invited) September 2018: Sat 1st - Sun 30th: Totally Thames Festival: http://totallythames.org/ Fri 7th -Mon 10th: St Katherines Dock Classic Rally (TVBC Boats attending , organiser Jane) Fri 14th to 23rd : Southampton Boat Show October 2018: Thur 25th TVBC Social Evening at ‘The Bells’. Full details on Page 17. Book Now! Featuring “Panorama of the Thames” illustrated talk and a full buffet. Email Peter to book at [email protected] December 2018: FRI 14th: TVBC Christmas Party. This will be jointly held with the Richmond Yacht Club. Venue will be the Richmond Yacht Clubhouse on Eel Pie Island at 4 Eel Pie Island, Twickenham TW1 3DY. You are requested to “bring a dish”. contact Theresa: [email protected] to book February 2019: TBA: Skittles Evening March 2019: TBA : TVBC AGM *NOTE: Non-TVBC Events are in italics The Club on the Internet: Main Web Site: www.thamesvintageboatclub.com. Members Only Boats Database: www.thamesvintageboatclub.com/club/ (Email the Hon Sec for Login and Password. Members details not included) Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/thamesvintageboatclub 2 The Boater Issue 133 May-Aug 2018 Welcome Aboard Phew, it’s been a scorcher! being completed for the forthcoming Lovely for sun worshippers, but not so months - but if you have any good for our wooden boats and those of suggestions for outings or venues in the us trying to protect them and work on future, please feel free to contact them! myself and the Committee with your After the freeze of winter followed by a bright ideas. Our Christmas Party is long wet spell, it has been a huge once again being held as a joint event challenge for the yards restoring with Richmond Yacht Club, at their anything outside of a heated, dry shed excellent club house on Eel Pie Island, as well as for our DIY owners. Twickenham. It was a great success last As I walked along the bank at the Trad year. Boat Festival, the evidence of freshly I hope you enjoy this Special Bumper painted hulls cracking under the strain Edition of The Boater and by the time was plain to see, but as I am writing this you receive your copy we will be into editorial the rains have arrived and the Autumn and it will be time to dust off British climate is back to its usual peaks those covers and prepare our boats for and troughs. laying up - apart, of course, from those Hopefully river levels will have of us who can enjoy the flexibility of a recovered in some of the worst affected 'frostbite season' in between the areas - especially the Windsor reach, necessary lock closures. where our boats are constantly going Many thanks to all who have aground, and unfortunately, I am a contributed to this edition (the largest regular vistitor to the EA incident report ever) which I hope you will enjoy. line to enquire where all the water has With best wishes gone! Jane As a Club, we are about to hold a special Social Evening at “The Bells”, Staines – full details on page 17. This one is too good to miss! Our Club Calendar is now I am always very happy to receive articles, letters, and photos from club members to include in future issues! Guidelines are: articles in Microsoft Word format or text- only PDFs; photos separate, as attachments, in JPG format and as high a resolution as possible (max of 9.9Mb each) i.e. big files! Letters can be just emailed. Thankyou! Ed. 3 The Boater Issue 133 May-Aug 2018 It’s always very pleasing when club members can come to the aid of each other and when Reg Francis was experiencing difficulties with his Morris Vedette engine, no fewer than 14 members responded to him in such great detail that he would like to pass on his sincere thanks to all of you who provided such ‘gems of information’. Such was the quality of the response, Reg would like to create a compendium of the observations for a future article in The Boater. Evelyn counting the takings Over £300 was raised from the profit on 41 members and guests attended the the BBQ and raffle and as you can see Island BBQ in aid of our nominated above, there’s still the banking to take children’s charity MOMENTUM and care of after the event! also to celebrate the birthday of Evelyn Lewis. After over 30 years of ownership, Evelyn Lewis’s beloved Dunkirk Little Ship is to be restored in readiness for the next Dunkirk Return. Over the past three decades she has been a holiday home, charter vessel and residence for the whole family – she even featured in an episode of Poirot! For the last 25 years she has been Evelyn’s home so Evelyn has now moved onto a substitute steel boat while the restoration takes place – that’s real dedication to boating for you! The Clewer Island Charity BBQ 4 The Boater Issue 133 May-Aug 2018 Trailer boaters will be pleased to learn that Henley Town Council are to rebuild the New Street slipway, which has been unsatisfactory for some time, but is currently dangerous to use. The EA have removed some 63 tons of Floating Pennywort (or “Tarifa” in the slings awaiting restoration Marshpennywort) from an area of river between Marsh to Sonning. This NOTE: This issue has been delayed for various reasons, so we decided to make it causes a range of problems, including a largest ever “Bumper Edition” packed changing the availability of oxygen in with photos and articles. We hope you the water, threatening fish and enjoy it! The Editors invertebrates and choking drainage. The club’s chosen charity for 2018 Today Momentum provides so much to so many families. Being told your child has cancer or another life-limiting condition is devastating. Day-to-day life is turned upside down. Momentum supports the entire family during times of unimaginable strain – the children and their parents, but also siblings and grandparents. www.moment-um.org 5 The Boater Issue 133 May-Aug 2018 New Members and Boats Anne Ceome 6 The Boater Issue 133 May-Aug 2018 Jomarna Lady Emma Moja Neptunes Favour Serendipity Sevillana Sunrise Viola 7 The Boater Issue 133 May-Aug 2018 This year’s Fitting Out & Awards wined and dined handsomely prior to Evening was held at The Runnymede- the Awards Ceremony. on-Thames Hotel and was attended The list of winners and a selection of by 43 members and guests. photographs recognise the support With drinks on arrival and an and dedication of club members to extensive buffet menu, everyone was the ongoing aims of the TVBC. Presented by the Commodore, Jane Percival, at the Fitting Out Supper at the Runnymede Hotel on Saturday 5th May 2018 1. Tony Sanders Attendance Trophy: “Most regular attendees at Club events”: Evelyn Lewis 2. John Mauger Trophy: “Best Amateur Restoration” Alain Lamens with ‘Little Ann II’ 3. Boat Handling Trophy – “Most skilful boat handling during a Club event”: The Consuta trust 4. Illuminated Cruise Trophy: “Best TVBC presentation in the Trad Festival Illuminated Parade 2017: Gillian Watson with ‘Festivity’ 5. The Boater Trophy: “Best contribution to the Club for the year”: Steve and Geraldine Bil 6. The Silver Salver: for the best TVBC boat of the year: Matt Cain with ‘Lady of Mann’ 7. The Longest Cruise: Lynn Atkin and Graham Meyer with ‘Amoreena’ 8.