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  1. MY littleboat
    It has been a while since we have posted purely Broads related content, however, we have popped a short episode of our 'Another River' series up this evening and on Wednesday there will be a 'Slow TV version with just a trip to Loddon with open audio and immersive sound! I really hope you enjoy!
  2. MY littleboat
    Well good morning, It has been a while since I last posted anything here, and I was a little unsure of where to post this! Recently, we met up with Richard and Lisa of @waggiescruising @waghorriand had a good natter - so I have naturally turned this into a Podcast. If you happen to be driving for 30 mins and wanted to listen to a chat about boating, bridges, future boating plans, the condition of the Chet and the New Cut as well as a good deal of clap-trap, then this may be for you! Hope you enjoy!
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    Thank you - I am re-learning to both boat and make videos as I go....... any suggestion for the future is most welcome - I don't monetise and make them for fun. Apart from a recent video of someone trying to make a passage up the, then overgrown, new cut, I couldn't find anything and just took off for the day... walked far too many miles... got wet and sun burnt in the same day, but really enjoyed the time I spent there.... Years ago I made some vids of the NBN meets and I saw that some are still around on my old channel - although I used commercial musc in those days and got a few copyright issues as a result! I'm working on another two episodes in the series at the moment and one is around the wartime and military connections but, I fear, that will be alot longer in the making!
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    As always, I value your input and I would like to do a similar walk around Calthorpe - it is those hidden corners that I would really like to explore more and although I have seen that Brograve has, in the past, had attempts to correct the lean (I think the brick pattern shows come effort) it and I fear other such as you mention, are being left to crumble. I saw how quickly the millwrights can turn around other shuttered sails, most recently down here in Suffolk and so it really is disappointing that Clayrack is just sitting there.... Thank you for your valuable and insightful comments that have always, over the years, inspired me to look at the Broads in a new and different way!
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    Whilst looking around for places to visit - and after using my old 130 year old 'Rivers or Norfolk and Suffolk' guide - I have decided to modernise and use my 1930s/40s Blakes guide to see a few more places. Ironically, there is so little about Waxham New Cut, in fact many of the sources I have found have 1820 or 1830 as they year it was dug, and could find absolutely nothing of the old Lound Brickworks - except it had a pair of scotch kiln ovens and was the main reason for the canal to be dug from the drainage watercourse that existed beforehand.! I took the opportunity to have a peep in the top of Brograve Mill and generally had a really pleasant circular walk! Thank you for taking the time to have a peep at this little known part of the Broads! PS the drone shot of Horsey is a stock image and not mine sadly.... Last thing I would like to do is upset the NT, who, I feel, have done a great job in managing Horsey and making it as accessible as they have!
  6. MY littleboat
    I really wish that I could be there this weekend - still have fond memories from all of those years ago.....
  7. MY littleboat
    Welcome to the forum!!!!
  8. MY littleboat
    There is a known correlation between dredging and salination - where dredging is reduced, flow rates increase, salination also increases - but more worrying is the water quality and phosphorous and other nasty 'blooms' (sometimes called 'plumes' which result from overflow discharges from our wonderful water companies. BA as well as the government, have slept whilst the recording of these discharges have increased. The result is large algae fields which also kill waterlife, make the water less safe for those who venture in it - including swimmers, canoeists and paddle boarders. It has also been reported in credible scientific journals, that there is a possible link to the high numbers of Avian Flu cases in that the algae may be harbouring the viral spores EA employ a raft of scientific experts to monitor water quality however, I have never seen an EA tester around the Broads and, being devolved, like everything else is, I wonder if the BA are actually really worried about water quality or just happy to pull up boat yard barriers as a quick fix when fish float around dead on the surface leading to outrage from the public in the press?
  9. MY littleboat
    Well we are back again - at the end of 2022, we made the, very cold journey, to the boats new home! Mutford Bridge was broken - kinda sums up our Broads boating - there always seems to be a drama - although we didn't expect a 13% toll rise and a slap around the face if we wish to visit Reedham this summer!!
  10. MY littleboat
    I'm getting a cap to cover mine!!!!! :)
  11. MY littleboat
    After more than 10 years away, the decision was finally made that, for 2023 at least, we would be returning to the Broads! So on a wet and windy early January morning, myself and a friend trudged up, through a broken Mutford Lock and along the Broads - of course stopping for the obligatory lunch at the Reedcutters! All in all, we are chomping at the bit to get boating in 2023, but in the meantime, have to make do with looking back at our memories of 2022 - and, although we didn't get on the water nearly as often as we would have liked, we did manage to have a few really great nights onboard! Here is a quick (under 3 min) vid I popped together for our (non-montised in any way) channel
  12. MY littleboat
    I think our small dog has the same claws though!!
  13. MY littleboat
    I think it would depend on your maintenance schedule and how long the impellor has been in-situ - If you know it has only been in for, say under 2 years, then 'on inspection' would be good - however, neoprene and other rubber derived items will degrade - especially if not flexed regularly, and I would change it. I would also change it if it had not been used for a very long time (ie a season out of the water) Otherwise, a good inspection will suffice, but take the opportunity to fit spin-off wing nut cover screws and carry a spare as it is easy to identify if things arent going well (ie housing not cold!!!) and rectify - well that is my plan anyhoo!
  14. MY littleboat
    Now live and available in HD - The 4K version may take a day or two :) As I have mentioned previously, we do not monetise and make these short films to remember our journeys and our boating ups and downs!
  15. MY littleboat
    As a skipper of nearly 40 years, I can honestly say that I am as prone to mistakes as anyone - and that is alot of boating every year and not a 2 week holiday once a year for 10 years (Which equates to about 5 months irregular experience...) As you get older you get wiser and realise that over confidence exists in all sports and past times... Human Factors leads to mistakes with the vast number of air accidents, for instance, occurring in the cohort of 'experienced amateurs.' In my professional life I work for the emergency services and attend ALOT of Broads incidents and I find 2 things are common (Without exception, but my personal experience. sorry no double-blind trials on this one...) 1. Women listen to safety briefs very carefully and are quicker to react with the cautious drills (ie engine off) and are less likely to make a situation worse and subsequently ask for help early. 2. The more serious incidents often involve those who 'perceive' that they are experienced and do not match option 1. Sadly - I have never been able to establish the reason why those in category 1 need to bring 15 bags of stuff with them for 2 days afloat though!!!!
  16. MY littleboat
    Unfortunately, unlike motor insurance, and even though on inland water under which Broads Bylaws exist alongside other navigational rules, the duty of a Master of a Vessel (even if a hirer) is to stop and ensure those details are given. There is no 'designed for the Broads' boat - unless you have a wherry or commercial craft, and ours, for instance, is particularly thin in places. A few years ago, another of our boats, sustained thousands of pounds of damage from a swipe and go. Now we always have a camera - it is sad that boating has come to this as accidents - especially when inexperienced skippers who are on holiday often, and sometimes private owners too, feel that this sort of behaviour is acceptable. Saying sorry is not an admission under maritime collision liability and, if you read the literature from your insurer, that is often made perfectly clear! Even the Broads Authority give guidance in their video series of what to do:
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  18. MY littleboat
    Well, after more than a year Friday Night has again wet her hull with Broads water! As always we have included our journey in our vlog and our latest upload will be available at 19.30 this evening. We have really thought about this upload and included as many cinematic shots of The Broads and some of the favourite places we have visited. Please enjoy and feel free to comment... EXCLUSIVE - We have made the decision to have a full season back in the Broads next year - More details to follow! http://youtu.be/Epcx7RmuUB4
  19. MY littleboat
    I think it started life as a marine projects 31 I believe
  20. MY littleboat
    I have been uploading a few memories of boating years gone by and am about to re-do some of the old NBN stuff! in the meantime, who remembers tis when they passed Reedham?
  21. MY littleboat
    Haha I popped in there the other day - I wish I had read this first! lol!
  22. MY littleboat
    And such a very important area - although the charitable trust do an excellent job with the study area, it seems Ted Ellis would be turning in his grave if he thought that access to it was being restricted!
  23. MY littleboat
    Good old Richand Benyon MP... stop those wretched people using them... Bring on the 'Trespass Act July 2022' criminalise everyone with a camper van or a tent!
  24. MY littleboat
    I love this phrase 're-wilding' I have seen it used to justify a number of what are, obviously, cost cutting measures, but more worryingly, like many other maintenance tasks, have often been placed out to subcontractors - at a higher cost... well that is if you do everything the local authorities were doing before - solution - do less - save money. I am not sure this is lost on the Broads also - I am just waiting for a financial justification for things such as 'coloured pig/cow/insert random painted fibreglass animal here' trails which I am sure will be coming to our riverbanks soon! As far as the Broads Authority are concerned, I can already vouch that I have seen the Pink Elephant! I win!
  25. MY littleboat
    Thank you so much. The Boating Memories snippets are just me sharing my thoughts and memories and a more akin to short rambles - I really hope you enjoy thm, got a few more Broads related ones to make over the next few weeks whilst I am getting boat withdrawal symptoms!
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