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    2 Weeks Coming Soon, advice for southern broads

    in Broads Chat

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    Hi

    i take it your bringing the bin liner down?? If so you can t get past trowse rail bridge in Norwich or past beccles road bridge(old) check the tides for springs for loddon and rockland although time it mid tide you  have no problem at 11ft you'll have to   Wait at both swing bridges and get your times right at Yarmouth (sorry if I am sucking eggs but you did ask!!) Sonia s at the ferry house surlingham is a must !! Mud weighting on surlingham broad if calm very peacefull also Langley dyke very wild!

    Bayliner 3055 Cruiser For Sale

    in Boats and accessories for Sale

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    Depends how big your diesels are - lots of spare horses as well in some. :naughty:  :naughty:

     

    Our last boat was a Regal that was quite rare as it had a diesel engine rather than the typical petrol they fit.

     

    By the way - even when you get your bigger:naughty: boat - you will still hanker for a little more space after a while, but the wallet normally tends to rein you back in (unless you win the lottery). :party:

     

    Good luck.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm0J0Jtdui4

    they do go well with diesels in them!!:taunt::naughty:

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    Sterndrive Anodes

    in Technical Questions and Answers

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    :norty:  :norty:  you need ally anodes, the water is brakish where you are(weak yess but brakish) mag anodes will just fizz away at a pace, i reckon to get about 2.5 years from ally one,s, as for the clips you need the full salt water one,s, i forget the stainless number but someone will know, we moore at st olaves :wave

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    A plea to all the Saily's

    in Broads Chat

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    I do know why he was sailing up the right bank, but he was doing this after he had made a tack, a simple wave of his arm would have been appropriate....he just could n,t be bothered, i had no clue if he was going to tack or not so followed the rules of the road,all he had to do was steer 2 degrees starboard, but no played chicken ,  he misjudged the speed , didn,t blink an eyelid, and tacked to get out of the mire, if he had done this with a less powered boat he would have been splinters, a simple mistake,which didn,t need to happen......a clear wave is all it takes....and some basic manners.

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    A plea to all the Saily's

    in Broads Chat

    Posted · Edited by JawsOrca
    Language Edited ;)

    Must be something about the tat ha around the reedcuters area we passed serveral yatchs there who were brilliant indicated early which side to pass,then there was one who was sailing up the right bank on a direct coarse for us no signal at all ,we had the tide behind us , it got close to him being run over very close, it took 300 horse power of engines in reverse to miss him a total berk,a local boat owner who moors down Langley described them as big headed ********* so beware around the reedcutters

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    Rag and stick saves lifeboat a call out

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    Canopys are a pain in the proberbale ,trouble with them you got store them someware and on sports boats like that targa27 theresnot a lot of options.On the  th sea you get a lot of spray at speed keeping

    Canopys on keeps salt away from your electronics and moor inportantly away from your gt!!!

    oooooooooops

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    darn sourth   where there is a shelf, the ba bang in 2 by 2 yellow posts , because of the shifting silts, perhaps the lower Bure could do with some??....dosn,t help if your asleep thou!!

     

    opps didn,t read post above!

    Speeding

    in Broads Chat

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    Why the obsession with speed? Speed over ground is irrelevant, only speed through the water has any affect on the banks, small craft and moored boats. Reaction times are hardly tested by 5 or 6 miles an hour, so it is not as if speed kills,  but with water flowing at up to 3 or 4 knots through Reedham Yarmouth and the lower reaches of the Waveney you could be doing up to 8 knots difference going with it downstream to against it upstream at the same speed over ground, 

     

    8 knots is one hell of a wash on most boats

     

    Why not campaign for speed to be in through the water instead on over ground if you want to make any difference. That way the speed limit is 2000 rpm or whatever it equates to and if you want to get there quicker go when the water is going the same way as you. 

    HI, nice to see you posting again, took a while to work out who was waving at us friday!, to give an example , we have to be very careful when motoring against the tide, the speed limit has little influence on the way we go against tide because with a 4 knot tide running our boat simply digs it,s stern in and produces a hugh wash at 6mph, Going with the tide we produce very little wash at 6mph over the ground.

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