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  1. Had drinks in there yesterday afternoon.
  2. Just coming to the end of a lovely week in St Ives (the Cornwall one) for my sister's 65th birthday. It's been dry more or less all week and sunny most days. Cool but very little wind, so very pleasant. Our apartment overlooks Porthminster beach, upon which we've sat at the cafe bar having a glass or two most days people and dog watching. A few brave souls have been swimming but none of them have lasted more than 20 mins. Back to Manchester on Tuesday via an overnight hotel stop near Gloucester, then next weekend we should be able to go to our static caravan on its new site near Rhyl. The caravan is being transported to Rhyl from Butlin's Skegness on Tuesday and the new site reckon they will have it all connected up by next Friday. I doubt if we will get any boating in this year (but you never know maybe at the back end of the season). We did manage two leisurely weeks on the Llangollen and Montgomery canals last summer, so if we do find the time I would like to return to the Broads even if, for health reasons, we only manage to potter about in the upper regions of the Bure.
  3. This one is August 83 and we are moored to a quay heading. We were on Sunset Six, the orange and blue AF42 from Beaver Fleet, St Olaves.
  4. We were moored there on Constellation 2 in 1964 and were hit in the stern by a large wooden cruiser. The transom had a dropped centre section and the result was a split about 10 inches long where the dropped part joined the rest. This was on a boat only about 12 months old. If we hadn't been aboard we may not have noticed the damage and possibly have been blamed when we returned the boat.
  5. I can only see I can only see 130 hire boat moorings on the plan. The other 60 are listed as Charter storage moorings - are they for hire boats they intend to sell?
  6. We did Boxing Day to Jan 2 on Moonlight some years back. It was a dry, sunny but cold week. As we were moored on our own almost every night, we just used the boats heating and remember it being quite cosy. We stayed south and some days didn't see another boat moving. The Broads are superb at this time of year. Enjoy.
  7. Perhaps it would be better if us billions didn't keep adding to it.
  8. This is the latest photo of one I can find. It was taken heading upstream on the straight reach above Bramerton in August 1982. I have somewhere a (very) short clip of film of one we met just above Reedham Bridge a year later.
  9. It's a really horrible place.
  10. We stayed in one of the turret rooms in the Red Lion some years back on a wander from pub to pub along the Norfolk Coast. We ended up at the Christmas show at Thursford. Red Lion had both decent food and ale.
  11. Pic attached is August 85. Definitely showing at least 8ft and I seem to recollect that a rise and fall of 3 to 4 inches was the norm.
  12. Is that not Langley Dyke?
  13. There is a 7/8 berth dual steer that will go almost everywhere (except through Potter these days). I've taken one through Wroxham at 6ft 7in and reckon there was at least 3 or 4 inches to spare at the shoulders. The same boat needs 7ft at flat bridges.
  14. Had a similar experience on the Canal du Midi about 20 years ago. There are a couple of very sharp bends where it was mandatory to blow your horn. We were on a 48 x 13.5 foot cruiser and approached one of these bends slowly and sounded the horn, there was no reply so we went ahead only to be confronted by the bow of one of the hotel barges which was mostly on our side of the canal. All I had time to do was turn the boat beam on to the barge and wait for the impact. Fortunately because of our low speed the contact was only glancing. The helm on the barge was definitely laughing. My little French deserted me so I could only give him a blast of Anglo Saxon invective. I rang the boatyard to report it and they sent a chap who just gave the boat a cursory inspection and said he couldn't see any damage but just to keep an eye on things.
  15. The 1963 Blakes catalogue has three different styles of name for the company: Their auxiliary yacht Golden Dawn; The "Months" class April Dawn etc and Fleecy Dawn are listed under: Dawn-Craft Ltd., Wroxham. Silver Dawn is listed under: Dawn Craft Ltd., Wroxham. The "Colours" class and Radiant etc are listed under: Dawn Craft (Wroxham) Ltd. This is possibly either a copywriter or printers error, or could it be for financial reasons?
  16. The originals of these came into service in 1975. These are going on to have another life elsewhere. I doubt if any of the modern trains will last as long. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2x8xj8mz3mo.amp
  17. 70s probably about right. I sat in the garden in July 1964 having breakfast and the garden was definitely a little longer than that. I don't remember the post and chain fence either.
  18. Hi David, Where is the bottom photo please? cheers Roy
  19. There was one in 1993. Don't know if there was another one on Woods' side of the river, but I imagine this one would have been hard to see to somebody not familiar with the area. Don't know if its still there.
  20. Interior of Brister's Yare Sunset 1 in October 94.
  21. He did last time I was there. I've always paid at Norwich as far back as 1963. My dad moored us overnight on the moorings just below Yarmouth Yacht Station rather than pay the fee in 1958.
  22. Presume its winter . . . no leaves on trees
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