Hockham Admiral

Well that's brought it down to earth, Jonny!

Rod, Hi. I'm going to argue with you over this one! We have a boat suited to the North Broads and did moor there. No way will we return except for a few weeks out of season... ask Barry and Olive too! So it may be your better option but you just can't include everyone in your challeging statement! Period!

You really know how to bring tears to the eyes, Roger........... Thank you for a beautiful story

And what does Lou say to that???

Look at Hylander's topic, Steve.

My Gran'pa used to chop their heads off with the coal axe... they would then run headleasly around for a minute or so PS Open the smilies and click on the one you want (I have to do them one at a time).

these and more if you click "View more smilies" !

Welcome to the NBN, Hylander. Indeed I do remember those days... gas street lamps and gas lighting indoors...no electricity in Dukinfield during the War! Even an outside privvy to share with the rest of the terrace... And as you say, back door open to all, nothing worth pinching anyway...

Welcome aboard from us! What have you bought and where is she moored?

Cheeky Sod! (But in reality quite possibly as my parents and I came down to the Broads most years between '49 and '59.......)

Boycee recently sent me this fasacinating archive link: http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/274

Yes, Gav, it was. I couldn't locate this pic I took back then until tonight but I was there! They moored her over on the Freight side as was then where the old terminal was.... STN was a quiet backwater in those days!

Good idea, Brian... and you're also setting off in the best area of the Broads for your requirements.

Clive and David, Hi Now totally off the topic but she was painted with whatever gloss paints I "found" in the paint shed and, as you can see with the ports, I had to use whatever leftovers I found courtesy of Shetland! She was never anti-fouled. The helm was an old Mini steering-wheel connected to a pulley from a John Rolls washing machine and thence via aeroplane turnbuckles and wire to the outboard. 2 berths for'ard and 3 in the aft "cabin"; two longitudinal at 4ft6ins and one transverse with two steel rods and a canvas hammock slung between.. our 3 kids thought it all quite wonderful! Oh, and a small Primus stove to cook on and a seat-with-a hole-in-it (and a bucket beneath) for the loo! I traded her in with Bounty Boats for our Colvic 30CC which I bought as a hull/superstructure and had Bounty complete her to our specs. She looks very outdated now but the woodwork inside was by a Master Cabinet-Maker and would put many modern boats to shame...

Gav, been there, done it.... you DO have to fill in one of these forms anywhere you venture in Europe; IF you can find somewhjere to do it. Last time in Holland then Middelburg was one of the few places you could.. and that's at leasr 10 klicks inside Holland!

Dan, Hi We launched our first boat back in 1979 at Buccaneer Boats, then owned by Dick and Anne... he was a right of a man with beard and 'tache thrown in! Anne could sip Gin & Dry Gingers with the best of them! I built her out of marine plywood in the hanger at RAF Honington in my final year in the RAF........ nearly all the fittings were liberated from a tip near Stanton where Shetland boats offloaded all their spare bits and pieces! She was an 18ft 5-berth CC home design powered by a 5HP Honda 4-stroke........

And that's not all, David! If fuel's a problem then there's ATIS http://www.rya.org.uk/infoadvice/boatin ... /atis.aspx and also the Schengen Visa... http://www.schengenvisa.cc/ Personally we never bothered with these two and just ploughed on but we do speak Dutch sufficiently to laugh it off with a drink or three on the two occasions we were boarded... You can enter Zeeland via the Roompopt Sluis without even stopping at HW +/- 2hrs as I remember. But this fuel problem seems as though the EEC doesn't want the English to visit them in their boats... Now even more happy we left the sea to you Salties..... Good Luck! BTW no-one seems to mind the Dutch using their ATIS radios within 14 nm of our coast, do they? I quote: "As an aside it is interesting to note the following on the Notice of Variation: the ATIS equipment or facility shall not be used within 14 nautical miles from the low water line along the Coast of the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands." Perhaps someone should tell our Dutch visitors?

By "trustees", do you mean "accountants"?

Jonno, Hi and welcome aboard. That was just beautiful and I also watched some more if your vids............ are you a professional?

Mark, Hi Friday Girl +2 (Tickets already booked on Oct 2nd) Let's hope the ice isn't so thick!

I've also considered that (stopping outside the Queen of the Iceni) but this original thread dissuaded me on the grounds that the BA have the ultimate sanction of withdrawing your licence......... don't they?

Neil, Hi If they'd take a more compromising £ 12K then I'd thought you might be interested?

You'd be braver than me to trust yourself on that ship!

It was certainly OK at 07.25 about half-way down when I saw a pair of otters on the bank!

Here are a few, Lori: http://www.booking.com/searchresults.ht ... ar_group=0