River Thames 

Start time: 12:00

Finish time: approx 14:00 at Westminster

Due to pass Rotherhithe approx 12:30 – 13:00

This unique event is rowed over a course of seven miles between Greenwich and Westminster.

Considerable skill is needed to pilot unpowered barges, rowed under oars or sweeps and ride the tidal river currents alone, up river. These events commemorates the skills of lightermen who moved freight this way along the Thames up until the 1930s