The Great Thames Row 2016
IT’S A BIG OL’ RIVER
Chapter 8
Another busy month down and now it really is
frighteningly close.
Furthering Research into
Infantile Nystagmus
IN-vision
is a small,
Buckinghamshire
based, charity
with a big
ambition.
Enter Andy Knill and Andrew Bernstein, who have stepped
up to the task and thankfully, they know EVERYTHING!!!
Well that’s how it appears to me anyway.
On Friday 29th July, myself and Liz, Andy, Andrew, David
(chair of the ATYC) and Jon from the PLA boarded the
Harbour Masters boat to take a trip down The Thames from
Putney to Ford, way past The Thames Barrier and just 2
hours from the finish line.
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There was one area of this challenge that Liz and I
have been worrying about since talking to the PLA last
October… the Passage Plan and the Risk Assessment.
These needed to be done by someone who knew The
Thames and who understood the tides, the rules, the
rowing, the big boats, and of course my challenge and all
it entails. I know rowing and Liz and I know my challenge,
but that is it. We have spent a long time trying to work out
what to do and who to ask as we needed someone who
was happy to take this without much input from us.
It was an exciting and informative trip, the boys just
chatted constantly about tides, which side of the river to be
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