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53 minutes ago, garryn said:
We went to the New Inn on Saturday night and the 25% discount was most welcome. It made the £5.75 for a pint more palatable
Thanks for that - definitely off the list now!
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I seem to recall the yardstick for 'waiting for the tide' is not leaving the vessel - as soon as you do "Kerching!"
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1 hour ago, grendel said:
Oh, I know seagulls, once you get them to start, you are off, usually at a great rate of knots as you had the throttle wide open to get it running, or like me you had pushed the tiller away from you as you pulled the cord and the dinghy corkscrews to the bottom of the river as the transom tips under.
And the pull cord comes off the flywheel, whips over your shoulder and smacks the young lady you were trying to impress in the chops!
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3 hours ago, Turnoar said:
Aspen sounds like good stuff and that’s a good tip re just using for the final tank full as it’s a bit more expensive. Is the performance improved significantly, wondering if the Lerryn Seagull buoy racers would gain an advantage?
Aspen is cracking fuel, we use the ready-mix 2T in our strimmer and rotavator on the allotment. Never had any starting problems after being stored for some months. £20 odd a gallon but with 25c.c. engines a gallon lasts a couple of years.
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Re: Single handed hiring. I'm sure I read somewhere a while ago that the new MAIB-driven guidelines to hireyards require there to be two 'capable' adults (for which read 'fit') on every boat. Kathy spotted it and commented "Well that disqualifies us with one good leg between us!"
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On 01/11/2022 at 08:35, NeilB said:
Saw one of the Pearl Gems leaving Richardsons on the back of a truck yesterday, no idea where it was going to.
That's what it was! We were coming up on Monday and passed her leading a convoy going South around Thwaite. Heading for the Thames perhaps?
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6 hours ago, Tyna said:
The Wind! We were gently floating our flappy thing down the Bure with the tide and no wind in sight. Approaching the waterworks a very strong gust of wind came from nowhere and knocked our Thurne class flat on it's side with the main sail almost touching the water. The first thing I knew was whilst still sitting on the bench I was looking down at my partner who was up to his armpits in water. The yacht righted itself and we bailed like fury.
A motor cruiser who witnessed it came to our aid and told us he had seen a mini tornado type event come almost straight down on us from above. It certainly did not come from over my shoulder as my hat was loosely plonked on my head and there it remained. Since then I have lost my confidence in sailing and only go out on calm days.
Tyna I'm sure Vaughan will confirm, in Norfolk and Suffolk that's known as a duzzy Rodger - no-one knows where they come from!
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We're firmly in the 'early morning ' camp. Our best trip so far involved leaving Stalham at 03:30 to get through Yarmouth around 7. Creeping down the Ant as the sun came up through the mist was idyllic!
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And leave enough slack in your bridle that the exhaust water doesn't fill it up - I learned that lesson the hard way!
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Re: magnet fishing, I'm sure I read a few years back of someone hauling a sawn-off shotgun out in Norwich- plod were quite interested.
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A mate used to minicab in a diesel Morris Oxford estate with a mighty throbbing BMC - that did quite well on central heating oil. 😉
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Just seen on my news feed a piece from BBC East that EnvAg have rescued 45,000 fish from Womack, a trustworthy witness who watched the operation reckoned 6 or 7 thousand. Who does one believe?
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Re: Jaspers , yesterday afternoon there was an A4, probably laminated sign on a wild mooring a bit further upriver reading "Danger, Wasps nest". Perhaps they're itinerant too?
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Meantime and others - thanks for the clarification, I've been afloat for a week ducking into and out of signal so not seen the previous gen.
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On 23/09/2022 at 12:28, Wussername said:
As far as I am aware the act has never been rescinded.
Pick a manicured lawn leading down from an established mansion to the waters edge.
Let us know how you get on.
Many years ago, just for a change, we hired a narrowboat to chug down the Wey and up the Thames and back. At one point the dogs gave the well known to dog owners 'dump imminent ' signal. As the nice lady at the yard said we could tie up anywhere there wasn't a no mooring sign, we did. Lovely piece of manicured greensward it was too. The deeds had just been done when a green Range Rover rolled up, two very nice young men in blazers and flannels with bulging armpits suggested we might like to move along please as Her Majesty didn't appreciate picnickers in her back garden. Oh how we laughed (a bit later!)
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I'm sure I remember reading some years ago, possibly in another place, that the gabions along the New Cut were shifting into the channel. I think, at the time, it was blamed on large twin-engine jobbies possibly from Brundall hammering up and down.
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That's a sweetie! I spent my formative years crewing Dragonflies round the cans at Waldringfield.
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3 hours ago, Mouldy said:
We were on holiday near Bethesda when Diana was killed and returned home on the day of her funeral. I have to say that I’d never seen the roads as empty as they were that day.
We were on the Broads that week, got the news Sundày morning outside Rockland New Inn. It felt so wrong driving home the following Saturday we pulled into a lay by on the A12 behind an Eastern Counties bus and listened to the funeral on the radio.
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Can't help feeling the technical term for the condition is 'kindling'.
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1 hour ago, Turnoar said:
My littlest one finished off the drawings last nite after I’d posted them yesterday. Very fitting for a Prince and now King who I explained once graced my great aunt & uncles Pleasure Boat Inn.
Cherry Brandy I believe 🙂
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I heard a viscous rumour last week that a yard up North had been selling BA cards for £1.50! Apparently soon shown the error of their ways.
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On 04/09/2022 at 08:01, BroadAmbition said:
Btw - A ‘Honeymoon’ berth is anywhere a couple can behave overnight as newly weds. Preferably not in the vicinity of other craft otherwise you need the age old sign on your craft:-
‘If the boats a rockin - don’t come knockin’
Sadly we have not been on a honeymoon berth for quite some time
Griff
We spent most of our honeymoon on Gays Staithe- just us and a tawny owl in the tree above us, mind you, it was the last week in November!
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A mate (now deceased) had a Safari at South Walsham. Make sure theres a cover for the stern well, the drain is prone to blocking and will overflow into the accommodation. He single handed his for many years until at 80-odd and after his second bypass the quack called 'time'. His was a mk 3 with the front door and no sliding canopy.
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Having read the article, the old buffer would be very lucky to do any damage with that piece. Although it looks like an automatic Colt pistol, it's a BB gun, charged by racking the slide to put a puff of air through a 2.5" barrel - effective range about 10 foot! Very disconcerting for armed plod however if one is pointed at you,I've been told.
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Places To Go?
in Broads Chat
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If you're looking for waterside or nearby pubs:- Ramsholt Arms,anywhere in Woodbridge, Waldringfield Maybush, Felixstowe Ferry FBI, Levington Ship, Chelmondiston Red Lion and Pin Mill Butt and Oyster are all highly recommended. To maintain the Broads link, Arthur Ransome lived for a while beside the Butt and Oyster.