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  1. We actually began our latest Broads "adventure" on April 2, Easter Monday, from Richardsons Stalham, so heard about the "problem" of boats requiring extra human "ballast" in order to pass under Wroxham Bridge, from the yard staff. One phrase used by one of the reception staff to help explain the problem was that there was a "6 inch difference in water height between the two sides of the bridge". I'll admit this sounded somewhat fanciful, but looking carefully again at the picture at the start of this thread I think you can see what is, effectively, the "waterfall" under the bridge.
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  3. First boating experience of the Broads, September 1972, with my parents. I had just graduated from University and had long been fascinated by the idea of holidays on a boat. Hired a Bermuda from FB Wilds at Horning, had a great (if rather rain-sodden time) but the bug had bit! In many ways, the next Broads holiday is more memorable. My wife and I married in 1974 and had been greatly helped by our respective parents to set up our first home etc.. So, 1975, we decided to take both sets of parents on a boating holiday on the Broads, as a thank you. Obviously, my parents and I both knew what to expect. However, my wife and her parents had no such idea and, as I discovered later, if as late as the night before we were due to set off I had told them we couldn't go, they would have been delighted! By the Wednesday of the week we were there, hiring from Alan Johnson Boats (can't remember the name of the boat but it was an ex-Wilds Carribean) parents-in-law and wife were all asking, when can we go on a boating holiday again? Since then, numerous holidays on the Broads (and the Thames, and the English Canals, and the Caledonian Canal, even French waterways later this year). Our two daughters, now married with children of their own are equally "bugged"; we're on the Broads for four nights from Easter Monday with one daughter, her husband and two youngest grandchildren, and the France expedition is with the other daughter, her husband and three oldest grandchildren. There's truly nothing like a boating holiday. Jeff
  4. Hi Maxwellian and many thanks for the welcome!
  5. Hi to all. Newbie forum member here (living in Lincolnshire) but not new to the Broads, having taken my first boating holiday on this wonderful waterway in 1972! That first time I was with my parents, hiring from F B Wilds at Horning. A couple of years later, together with my wife (who had never boated before) we took both sets of parents on a boat hired from Alan Johnson at Acle Bridge (as a thank you for all their help and support whilst we were at university and college). What I didn't know before we went was that neither my wife nor her parents were particularly keen on a boating holiday and if we had had to cancel for any reason, they would not have been upset! However, by the middle of the week they were all asking when can we come on a boat again? I think that illustrates perfectly the allure of this wonderful area! Since that time (1975) we have taken a number of holidays on a variety of hire boats with a mixture of "crew", ranging from our parents, to friends, to our two daughters (and, later, their husbands and children). Indeed, this coming Friday, August 21, we are once again returning, this time to Horizon Craft, Acle, and Dawn Horizon 2, with our elder daughter, her husband and three grandchildren aged 11 to 19. (We have previously hired Dawn Horizon 4 but on that occasion the party included our younger daughter, her husband and young baby, in addition to those of us there later this week, so the boat was pretty "full"! This time there should be a little more space!) We've also cruised the Thames, some parts of the Canals, the Cambridgeshire Waterways and the Caledonian Canal. As you may gather, boating is one of the whole family's most favourite holiday types! Jeff
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