Urgent update - boat registration renewals paused

We are currently unable to process River Thames boat registration renewals for 2026. We are working hard to resolve the problem as soon as possible.

We issued our boat registration renewal notifications for the River Thames by email yesterday using our new IT system.

Unfortunately the system did not generate the correct charges to include the 3.8% Consumer Prices Index (CPI) increase, so the notifications are showing 2025 charges.

We have paused boat registration renewals temporarily whilst we resolve this problem.

We will update this page when we can process renewals again.

We are sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Once we have resolved these initial issues we will see great benefits from the use of this new IT system, which is a key step forward in moving towards digitalising the boat registration service.