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  1. There is a similar situation up in Inverness, they suggested that Tescos could build a store and contribute to a new road.... Tescos built the store ten years ago but the council are still trying to finalizing the route for the new road and hey surprise the new store is apparently losing money....
  2. Let's hope they have done what many mariners would have done and gone to sea to ride it out before returning. Animals often seem to know what is coming before we do.
  3. I suspect you will need to order 5 months in advance if you order now, it is too cold for them in Winter.... The Yare in winter is more likely to have pack ice than ice creams!
  4. They are also talking about a tidal surge so there could be a risk of flooding....
  5. Marina Quays has changed over the years, it used to be open! Any marina on the Bure would potentially face tidal current speed problems as well as the rise and fall. Coming down on the ebb and aiming to tie up on a pontoon that went out into the river would sooner or later end in a crash. Dredging a basin in the land behind the bank , i.e. out of the river stream would possibly be easier but expensive. You would still face potential problems where boaters went to turn in and were carried past by the current. I had fun the last time I went to turn into the Waveney River Centre as I didn't allow for the current, and it is almost nothing there compared with at Yarmouth. Pontoons along the bank with suitable ladders to allow access at low water would be useful but would they really add anything... (And after a few years of neglect would they look like these? (The visitors pontoon at Skiathos in Greece))
  6. I've only passed through Great Yarmouth and turned up the Yare, but isn't the new harbour a bit exposed for access by the normal Broads boat? There again a nice marina for sea going boats would make it easier for the salties to moor closer to where their boats were designed to be instead of having to come down all the way from Brundell. Now somewhere decent to moor on the Bure would be very useful, but I hink that attempst to provide that in the past has have failed...
  7. Well I have worked out 30 questions, now all we will need is some folks to join in and see if they can guess or work out the answers before everyone else... Don't be shy, even if you don't get any points you can look on the bright side, someone else will have got carried away and won and will therefore have the task of setting next Sunday's quiz....
  8. 'Diving in'... Mind the splash! Welcome aboard, boarding ladder is deployed
  9. I will be in the chair next week! Time for me to sort out the 30 questions....
  10. I believe that Le Boat are owned by Tui, and whilst I have never dealt with them for inshore boating , I have hired from their rag and stick colleagues Sunsail. The Sunsail website says that the Solent is NON-TIDAL..... Personally I prefer to deal with companies whose personnel have at least some basic idea of what they are selling...
  11. The BA must love you when it comes to time to remind you about the toll!
  12. Just to clarify things a bit... NBD run the Wroxham pilot service but it is available for anyone to use (at a price). There is a small waiting pontoon just downstream of the bridge (on the Hoveton side) where you tie up if you want the pilot to assist you. He then comes aboard, takes the boat through, and then jumps off at the viaduct moorings just above the bridge and then you are on your own. Coming down river you stop at the viaduct moorings and give him a call on the phone and he will come to find your boat (either walk up or when he jumps off the next boat he brings through) Many of the hire yards insist that you use the pilot if you want to go through Wroxham bridge. Some of the yards have done a corporate "block booking" and the pilot 's fee is included in your hire charge for some of the others you have to pay the pilot yourself. The upper stretch of the Bure from Wroxham to Coltishall is, I think, one of the prettiest stretches on the Broads and well worth the pilot fee to get to.
  13. Perhaps you should book one of your own boats through them to get onto their mailing list?
  14. Why do they even bother with the brochure if you can't even work out the price for the week that you are interested in without looking at their web-site? And then when you do then there are still more mistakes or differences between the brochure and the web-site. I looked at the only Hoseason's yard and one of their boats that I have had personal experience with: Eden Bridge from Bridgecraft at Acle: The brochure states that Bridgecraft's fleet ranges from 2-9 berths, but the boats shown only show 2-7 and Eden Bridge is not shown. The web-site shows Eden Bridge as still being available but quotes her as sleeping 8 whilst the plan still shows her as having 2 doubles , a double saloon berth and the "kid's cabin" with a singe and twin bunks. To me that adds up to 9.... (They are also still using the same old photo of her at Beccles, the one that they decided looked better with the bow pointing left so they rotated it through 180 degrees!) I also saw the photo of "Far Horizon moored on the River Ant" but couldn't immediately have said Salhouse but it had to be there or Ranworth. (Mooring stern-to on the Ant south of Ludham Bridge (she isn't supposed to fit through that) would be interesting and might cause a bit of a hazard to navigation.) It just goes to show why I prefer to book directly with people that I know what they are taking about!
  15. Independence for Norfolk, what a great idea! Norfolk folk would of course be exempt but would need passports to prove their right of entry. (We could maintain a DNA database to show those who are entitled to free re-entry but trials have proved that DNA tests are not that reliable in Norfolk as the samples seem to be almost identical) But what about the requirements for a Border Agency to collect the toll! No problem we already have a BA we can just increase their remit. But we will need a Chief Executive for Border Tolls, and another 2300 staff due to the number of roads into Norfolk and the need for cover 24/7.... And what about collecting the entry toll from anyone straying into Norfolk on the water by navigating on the wrong side of the Waveney? (of course the toll would have to be paid on each entry). And what about the number of high speed launches required on Breydon in case someone strays over the border? How can we fund that all this expansion? I know lets increase the boat tolls for the next 3 years (and then forget to reduce them afterwards)....
  16. Jill, And I always thought the aim was to always come second to avoid the booby prize of setting the next quiz.
  17. Paul, great tale of your trip so far. But I do feel that I must say that I hope that inexperienced skippers don't try to copy your latest antics. I mistimed my passage north through Yarmouth myself once and got to the Bure an hour before slack water, due to underestimating the effect the ebb down the Yare was having on my speed over the ground. I did it with an older hired (and tired) bathtub which struggled to make any headway even at full power once I got into the Bure and, once past the bridges, I then moored up at Marina Quays for an hour hour to let the engine cool down and the ebb to slacken before carrying on north. You must have been going through the Bure bridges at nearly 3 hours before slack or even earlier if as you say the ebb was getting stronger once you got through. (Carousel must have a good reserve of power!) Once through Yarmouth heading up the Bure there is nowhere to moor before Stracey Arms, and then Stokesby and that trip takes a few hours, especially if pushing against the tide. After passing Stracey Arms at near sunset, what was your alternative plan if you couldn't get in at Stokesby? (I have never managed to find a mooring there on my trips, but I do tend to go in high season!) Ok you could have turned back to Stracey or tried to push on further, but would you have been able to see enough? Basically all I am trying to get over is that I regard a trip that will entail passing through Yarmouth twice (as any hirer will have to do) as something that needs a lot of prior planning. In fact if I do want to do such a trip then the dates that I book for are arranged around there being suitable tide times for me to get through at near to slack water and enough daylight still reach a suitable mooring on the days when I intend to do both passages. I will say though that if you are thinking of going through at any other time other than slack then it is definitely best to do so against the current as that give you more control when shooting the bridges. Coming down to Yarmouth with a full ebb under you is not to be undertaken lightly, as you need speed through the water to keep steerage way, and those bridges come at you very fast under those circumstances! Coming up with the flood under you would also make it difficult to abort if you realise that you got the height calculations wrong. One of Ricko's Challengers did that a couple of years ago, hit the bridge and then got squeezed into it as the tide continued to come in. Martin
  18. In fact as they are replacements for existing HW boats, but are dropping out of the Le Boat fleet then there could even be less boats on the Northern rivers.
  19. Assuming that your fenders have a hole at the top, personally I would use a bowline knot to attach the fender lines onto them. http://www.animatedknots.com/bowline/ (But basically any non-slip knot would do)
  20. Remember to add in the £12.95 postage... That seems a bit on the high side.
  21. Don't they normally refer to owning a boat as having a hole in the water that you throw money into.... I think you are discovering the joys of boat ownership, the joys of boating are actually using one. I am still at the hiring stage, (or as the posh guys say "chartering")!
  22. Sounds like John has been promoting the meet and possibly recruiting new members for the forum! I hope that everyone has good time. (I will be out in the Aegean on a rag and stick again when it is on so can't join you) Martin
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