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Breydon Water Closed To Hire Boats Again This Morning


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Dear All 

Urgent Boating News - Breydon Water is currently closed to hire craft due to poor visibility.  We will confirm when it has been re-opened. 

Kind Regards  

Laura Milner

Administrative Officer Operations

Broads Authority

Tel: 01603 756035

Broads Authority, Yare House, 62-64 Thorpe Road. Norwich NR1 1RY
01603 610734
www.broads-authority.gov.uk

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2 hours ago, Hylander said:

By the look of it is just as bad today.   What happens if you cannot get across to return your hire boat?

I would imagine that the boat owners would contact a a boatyard that the stranded hirers could reach and ask them to do the changeover, then take the new hirers to this yard in a minibus which would collect the returning hirers.

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Yep, looks like an escort is planned 

Our Rangers are planning to escort vessels across Breydon Water from Berney to Great Yarmouth Yacht Station around 13:15hrs (an hour before low water), and then an escort from Great Yarmouth back to Berney following that (times may be subject to change) https://t.co/D4PVaq9I8W

 

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Thank you for the link,   I was beginning to wonder how this was going to go.    It is not good to be stuck thanks to the fog.     Not doing Facebook or twitter and I am sure others would also not be doing Facebook or twitter how would you know , may be only by word of mouth.   I have looked at the Broads Authority Latest News on their web site and not a mention of any of this.   Not good enough.

 

Just wondering.

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I get a bit concerned that there is an assumption that everyone is on Twitter or Facebook and I am afraid it just is not so.    I think word of mouth would be the only way anyone would find out if they were not glued to these sites all day long.

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4 hours ago, Hylander said:

I get a bit concerned that there is an assumption that everyone is on Twitter or Facebook and I am afraid it just is not so.    I think word of mouth would be the only way anyone would find out if they were not glued to these sites all day long.

The fact is the majority tend to win - take electric and gas bills, nobody likes the things but I have recently moved not only over to paperless but pay thru and manage my account using the iPhone App for E.on and British Gas. So easy, so simple.

It is easy for utility companies to then push the ‘old fashion’ paper bill preferring folk to give up using everything from the environment being saved if they do to slapping the discount carrot in front of them if only they would go paperless and save a little 

The same on a kind of social scale applies with Facebook. It is so much part of our lives that people talk about events there as if it is a mutual friend and everyone else knows what they are referring to. 

It is true that not everyone uses Facebook but since so many of the worlds population now do (and will continue to despite the recent issues of privacy) because of its ease to stay connected to things. It’s the very need to stay up to date and in the loop that keeps people part of the circus.

Add in the fact you’re automatically notified whenever someone says something on a Group or adds a comment of reply and it makes near live updates and reading possible of a situation esp silly since most of the users of Facebook interact through their phones.

A chap called Dave Whitworth was live streaming the convoy over Breydon on the Norfolk Broads Boaters Facebook Group and I was watching and commenting from Middlesborough train station. Despite this being pretty technically amazing, it seems now so everyday at the same time. It was also quite a spectical seeig so many boats in a line over the water. 

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