Bow Creek Moorings is being set up by a small co-operative of boaters looking to provide safe and secure moorings. We want to bring new life to Bow Creek, help revitalise the river and its surrounding area making it more accessible and safer for the wider community, and recognise the vital part it has played in the history of London. The plan is to create a mooring with up to ten boats of mixed sizes . Each boat will have a share in the ownership, management and responsibility for running the site . We want to make this a small sustainable community of affordable residential moorings.
We want to make the mooring as eco friendly as possible.Solar panels on most of the boats will reduce our dependence on the grid. The materials we build the moorings with will come, as much as possible, from sustainable sources.
We will seek the help of outside agencies such as Thames 21 to encourage wildlife within and near the mooring and will have a robust plan to plant and green the quay and its surroundings
The Bow Back rivers are difficult to navigate on the tidal section not many boaters venture up the creek, and there are few if any places to moor. Careful planning and an awareness of the tides is essential. We hope to provide a space for overnight mooring for visitors to the creek making the navigation easier and opening up the back rivers to a wider community of boaters .
