Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Creating a left bank mooring on the Thames


As we sped downstream past Bourne End, between Marlow and Maidenhead, on the left bank was a brand new riverside mansion, with de rigeur solar panel and off-line mooring. What do you call these single-boat-sized chunk-out-of-the-garden moorings? They must have a name, but it escapes me at the moment.

I read somewhere that to determine which bank is "left" and which "right", as often applied to the Seine in Paris, you visualise yourself standing upstream of where you want to describe. Then if it's on your left, that's the left bank.

3 comments:

JR said...

On the Norfolk Broads those single mooring places are known as boat dykes.
Not sure about The Thames though!

Anonymous said...

"As we sped downstream..."

Surely not!

Halfie said...

"Sped" as in went with the flow, faster than we did upstream, and not "sped" as in "exceeded the speed limit".