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London to Paris motor boat dash starts from Westminster Pier . Mr Richard Cole , the motorboat racer left Westminster Pier , London alone in a outboard motorboat in a dash down the Thames and across the Channel to Paris . He is wearing the special suit used by Mr Kaye Don when piloting Miss England in America . He has to pass through 60 locks and stop and start his engine 500 times , during the journey . Mr Richard Cole saying goodbye to his friends at the start of his dash . 15 February 1932