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Liberty
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Hi Griff
Years ago I worked in tool and plant hire. These were quite popular. Not hugely powerful and the blade is quite small, but they do the job, dust free. Probably want a spare battery on charge as you use one.
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+1 for the Lavender House. Lovely. SWMBO goes to the cookery school there a few times a year. I look forward to the day it makes a difference
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in Broads Chat
Rum Punch, I feel your pain!
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Snow
in Broads Chat
Snowing hard in Brundall an hour ago...
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Thank you . I will have a sniff around in August and stick Bishop Skinner on the list.
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whoops a 0 crept in!! i pay 320 with off shore
Crikey..!
Who with?
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We are with craftinsure and although I have not had to use them, they were willing to negotiate about staying in the water over winter and would cover engine damage if frozen.
I tried Nav and Gen as there is a discount with the Broom owners club. It was really hard work getting a quote from them, and they were loads more expensive so I stayed with craft insure. About £700 including offshore.
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The Wayford Bridge "refit" has not worked for us at all. When the news came out that it Marco-White, we thought it was going to be a nice upmarket gastropub. Far from it.
We like the Acle Bridge - great for Sunday lunch.
Feel for the staff who had no idea until the administrators walked in.
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I am absolutely no expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I have heard you can use oxalic acid for this kind of thing.
Late again..!!!
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"..I'm moored alongside another boat. I'm the outer boat and I wish to go aboard. In the sailing world, the person boarding would walk across the bows of the other boat stepping onto his own boats bows, then walking to his own cockpit. I would say that with two motor vessels moored facing the same direction, this would have to depend on where the cockpits are. am I right? or is it still "across the bow"?"
Has to be across the bows in my book. It is the most distant point from where most people would usually be, whether in the centre cockpit / the aft cockpit / flybridge. It is also away from the area where stuff might be lying around.
It's the privacy thing for me.
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I thought the comments were a bit harsh...
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Basically, the way I read this is if you are in a small vessel not moored / anchored / mud weighted in or near a channel then you do not need one. Having said that, I do put my all-round white on if mud weighting when I feel I should err on the side of safety (like on Oulton Broad). With an LED in, it consumes next to nothing.
Another bit about wild / alongside mooring:
(1) Subject to paragraph (2) a moored vessel, any part of which extends 15 metres (49 feet 3 inches) or more into a channel or more than a quarter of the width of the channel (whichever is the less) shall by night exhibit an all-round white light at the outer extremity of the vessel. Such a light must be visible at a distance of one kilometre (1100 yards).
(2) This Byelaw does not apply to any vessel having a beam of less than 3.8 metres (12 feet 6 inches) moored alongside the bank of a waterway.
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From the BA bylaws:
Anchored Vessels
(8) The signals prescribed in this Byelaw are not signals of vessels in distress and requiring assistance.
The master of a vessel constrained by its draught may in addition to the lights prescribed for power-driven vessels in Byelaw 35 cause to be exhibited where they can best be seen three all-round red lights in a vertical line, or a cylinder.
(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and paragraph © of Byelaw 65 the master of a vessel at anchor shall cause to be exhibited where they can best be seen:
(a) by night an all-round white light which shall be visible at a distance of 1 kilometre (1,100 yards);
(or by day one ball.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) the master of a pleasure vessel of less than 25 metres (82 feet) in length when at anchor otherwise than in or near a channel shall not be required to exhibit an anchor light or shape.
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Looking forward to it. 3 litre rear wheel drive
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Clear as a bell at 0530 this morning!
Coming back home this morning, I was impressed at the difference it made. The 40 mph was mind-numbing.
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Yes, he was a member of the rugby club. So so sad.
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24 hrs, although they appreciate a little notice if it's 3am
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VHF very useful for Reedham, Trowse, Somerleyton bridges. BA monitors channel 12 also.
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The RYA Helmsman course is a good introduction, or Powerboat Level 2.
East Coast Training in Yarmouth (http://www.eastcoast-training-services.co.uk/courses/35/) are great because they cover river and sea; mooring, slow and high speed manoeuvring, vessel checks, rules of the road etc.
Having said that, there are several people locally who offer to come and do the same on your own boat.
Be careful - learning is quite addictive. Now studying for yachtmaster offshore!
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Cow Tower?
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Terry is one of my favourite authors.
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There's a chap that pops up everywhere!
Thanks John
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Had to reverse all the way down there earlier in the year!
Where ?
Iain.
Is this another sign of Spring ?
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Certainly. Scrubbed the rib this afternoon, ready to go back down to the water...
Spring is spring today