StillCruising

I've had Tony do the inspections for many years. Always professional and helpful. I'm at Stalham too.

One of my sons had 'free' breakdown cover with his car insurance. When the car did breakdown and had to be recovered to home he soon found out that it was in fact dammed expensive. Lesson learned we have joint personal cover with the AA. Over the years we gave had to call them out a few times and the service has been excellent. I have always been able to negotiate a discount from their renewal quote. I should add that we both run cars well over 10 years old (two of them nearer 20) and call outs have always needed recovery as clutch cylinders, engine ECU's etc are not roadside repairable.

Here's my eclectic mix. Bond Mk C Austin 40 Farina (passed test) Worsley 4/44 (very smokey) Triumph Roadster 2L (dikie seats) Rover 90 Rover 100 MG Midget Mk 2 (great fun car) Rover 3 Ltr Coupe (Still got) Austin 1100 Austin 1300 Daf 66 (vario matic - weird) Vauxhall Astra Estate Rover SD1 2600 Ford Granada Mk 3 ( Big end went) Ford Escort x 2 (1 heavily modded) Volvo 145 (7 seater) Rover 218 SLD ( my first diesel car) Rover 600 ( Honda engine) Rover 75 diesel auto (still got) Rover 75 CLD manual (my daily drive

I live not far from Goodwood and it is pretty windy here but no rain yet. Storms are predicted for this afternoon though.

In the 70's we started our broads experiences with boats from Moore's. Starting with a Moorehen then Glenmore, Benmore, Rexmore and Merrymoore in subsequent years.

I worked for Wayne Kerr in Bognor some 20 years ago when they renamed WT Test and then closed. The building was coverted to DHSS offices.

Back in the day you could get a dingy through the side arches.

When I worked for London Transport in the 70's to get the Leyland Fleetlines started on cold mornings we had a 'starting team' of two men. The procedure was to take of the air intake pipe from the manifold, one man wedged the throttle actuator with a large bar (no air to operate the accelerator) the other man held a lit wax procession flare into the air intake on the manifold. The starter was then pressed until the engine fired at which point the air intake pipe was refitted. As there was so much unburnt diesel in the cylinders that when the engines did fire up the smoke was unbelievable from the 70 plus vehicles. With noting that the old RT's and RM's started with no problems without the above procedures.

My Seamaster 30 certainty produces less wash than a day boat 🙂

I go by engine hours which I record in my daily log. In the 12 years that I have had my Seamaster 30 with its BMC 1.8 shaft drive over the course of each year it had used 2 Lt per hour, the Ebber uses 1/2 Lt per hour.

Another vote for Tony Urwin from me 🙂

Thank you so much for your replies, I think that it is Ranworth, it just looked a bit different in those days. The colourisation was amazing, thank you DavidH. I took the photo but sadly of the four friends in front of the boat only the one on the left is still around and it is for him that I'm seeking the location. Once again thanks for your help.

Ranworth was my first thought, but there looks to be another dyke behind and some water beyond that. I thought that it could be somewhere south as friends had a caravan at Caister that we used to use.

Hi. I have been going through some long forgotten photos and found this one, unfortunately it has suffered over time. I just can't place where it was taken, it would have been in the early 70's possibly in the south. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers. Bob

Same arrangement on my Rover 75's and as soon as you do more than 4mph the doors lock.