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47 minutes ago, Smoggy said:
Good luck with whatever comes Ian.
Me too. Best wishes.
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2 minutes ago, Gracie said:
Hey! You leave Lathams alone. I've spent plenty of pennies on their tat thank you very much
Did I just say that out loud
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To be honest there can't be many (honest) people that hav'nt
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On 29/10/2023 at 16:07, CambridgeCabby said:
I can confirm that NBN Spring Meet 2024 will be over the weekend of 18/05 and 19/05 .
If those members wishing to have moorings reserved for them could post on this thread when they know they will be attending and for how many nights please so we can book the appropriate amount of mooring spaces .
As in previous years it will be an informal social gathering , there will be a fun quiz (hopefully our honoured treasurer will volunteer to set it again , hint hint) .
It would be wonderful if any of our members were able to provide some live entertainment , again please let us know on here if you feel able to offer this .
Previous years we have had members bringing delicious homemade cakes , and biscuits again please do so again , the more the merrier .
Also don’t forget if you’re not afloat that weekend you can also join in the fun by foot or even camp on the on-site camp site
San Rafael. Alan(aka Happy) and Eve and Purdey the dog. Friday and Saturday night please. Not sure about cooking but will bring a couple of bottles of wine for the raffle, or whatever! How do I pay? Thanks
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21 minutes ago, OldBerkshireBoy said:
Dont think two tier pricing is allowed grendal.
When I compared prices because ours had gone up, our current (then) insurer were quoting quite a bit less on there than they were trying to charge me as an existing customer with a no claims history! How does that make sense. I am sure that if I had spoken to them they would have offered a better deal but I am sorry, I don't do business on those sort of terms
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9 hours ago, Matt said:
We had two cars on a multi car policy with admiral, renewal in mid October. Last year - £650 for both. Renewal this year for both £1,150. Nothing has changed in the policy.
Now they are separate policies with Tesco for a total cost of £720.
I seem to have lost all sense in what things are worth these days!
Whilst our costs for two cars had not risen that much they had increased considerably both cars are now with Tesco, similar cover and much better price. It seems you have to 'go compare' every year now
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7 minutes ago, ExSurveyor said:
Having spent 10 days onboard I seem to have acquired another boat.
Having looked at a few over priced rough boats I found a Sheerline 740, sliding canopy. 1988 model.
It has everything on my wish list except being one foot longer.
It has a bilge keel apparently, it does feel very stable.
It is going into Boulter's for some minor works I found doing the inspection and should be ready mid November.
Late October appears to be a good time to find the early bargains, or at least realistic sellers.
Late October is a rubbish time to sell a Shetland family four so rather than it looking stale on a brokage site over winter I will keep hold of it until the Spring and then sell it, hopefully.
Nice boat and don't forget Garry at Sheerline is at the end of a 'phone for anything Sheerline. Enjoy
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58 minutes ago, MauriceMynah said:
Right. I have ordered the £150 unit. It comes as the heater alone. I don't know if the fuel pump comes with it or not, but pipes, silencer etc do not. I shall be using the existing fittings. If the heater kills me... well we live and learn, and I'll never buy another one.
I have noticed that a new Eberspatcher fuel pump is well over £100. I can't remember how much but it was eye watering. A non Eberspatcher one is about £25. Further, I was told that of the £850 bill quoted, only about £150 was labour.
Sooner or later we, the boating fraternity will have to find out for certain if we are prepared to be ripped off by the word "marine" on everything we buy for our boats.
When it comes to quality, I take the measure of this to be "unreliable", "short lived" or "aesthetically poor" other shortcomings will certainly be there but not fatal ones. I have not found any evidence of anybody actually being killed injured or having suffered from fire owing to any of these units. (Having been properly installed. )
I have another idea I'd like to put forward, one which if feasible might make a possible business for someone. A bulkhead fitted silencer with cooling fins to be mounted inside the boat/leisure vehicle acting as a heating radiator.
I hate the idea of venting something hot outside from a device designed to heat an area inside. Surely we should be harnessing all the heat we can.
Look forward to hearing how you get on
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26 minutes ago, MauriceMynah said:
I should have added that under no circumstances should you use any tools directly on the ice. You WILL do damage that way, expensive damage at that.
Some years ago I let a mate and his girlfriend stay in our bungalow whilst we were on holiday for a couple of weeks. On our return we noticed the freezer had been changed. I gather his 'bird' had left the door adjar and it had iced up. She proceeded to try and remove it with a carving knife and damaged the 'fridge to a point of no repair. He thought he did me a favour of buying a used replacement and 'only charging me what he paid for it'!
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I sometimes miss the boats we have owned on the 'Broads' and other waterways but not so sure now.
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1 hour ago, Smoggy said:
We use the boat all winter leaving it 3-4 weeks in between and most of the time I look at the forecast ahead and judge it from that, there's not many really cold snaps that are not seen coming and worst case is a quick dash to the boat to sort it (180 mile round trip), my main regime for most of winter is shut off water pump power and let the pressure out by opening a hot and cold tap and leaving them open, run a couple of litres of 50/50 mix anti freeze through each raw water filter till gone, pump the bog empty and shut off all sea cocks, takes maybe 10 minutes when mooring up and leaving and about 5 minutes making sure raw water filters are re-primed when arriving next time and not too much anti-freeze (use the non toxic stuff BTW).
If a real cold snap is due then drain the water tank and pipes as best as I can and chuck a splash of anti-freeze down there as well, not had an issue yet including during the beast from the east.
My deck shower is isolated and drained over winter anyway and I have a convenient tee and valve between water tank and pump which makes it easy to drain tank and push air through the water system to clear more water.
We don't get the winters we used to.
I really do hope you hav'nt spoken too soon!
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I think the stern drive might put people off. If they know what they are looking for a shaft drive will be preferable. Just my opinion though!
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2 hours ago, Vaughan said:
There was a daily train of goods vans from Lowestoft, via Norwich, Dereham and Kings Lynn, to the marshalling yards at Whitemoor, usually containing fresh fish. It is seen here going through Kimberly Park station, hauled by the class B12 locomotive that is now preserved and running on the North Norfolk Railway.
And here is the same train, hauled by my model of the same engine. I have photo evidence for almost all the trains that I will be running. It looks like a mirror image, as the station building at Kimberly is on the up platform but at Thuxton it is on the down side.
I have just had a visit from a neighbour with a holiday home nearby, who is an accomplished railway modeller as well as a recently retired train driver, so I wanted him to see the layout running, before I now put everything away in boxes again and start doing a lot of modifications to the track work.
So this was the last train to run on the layout yesterday and there won't be any more "playing trains" for maybe two months or more.
Roll on Christmas. Oops, sorry, I shouldn't have said that . . . . .
Oh why not. At least Gracie won't mind
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7 minutes ago, Meantime said:
Probably around 45 foot.
Well I am so sorry. It was meant to be a sensible question that I and maybe others might have been interested in. I really don't think i'll bother again
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26 minutes ago, OldBerkshireBoy said:
Oh Dan, you`ve gone and ruined everything!.
You should of kept quiet for awhile longer!
So a new build comming up then? How long from start to finish?
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1 hour ago, Hylander said:
Blimey I was born in 1945 , I hope there are many more like me still around, I intend to live until I am in my 100s. So look out.
Bloody hell! There is someone older than me (just) on here. Enjoy. I do
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58 minutes ago, Hylander said:
We went to a certain hotel in North Norfolk and were charge £32 for two small glasses of white wine. I got the bill altered to £8 a glass but they didnt like it. Who is ever going to go back to a place to be given these extortionate prices. In Wells, Ice creams, a basic cornet not even a 99 was £3.50 , £3.50 for a cornet. No I did not buy them.
I would expect two bottles at those prices!
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6 minutes ago, hazelgirl said:
Hi all, I have seen something worrying on a separate social media outlet that you have to leave your car keys when you hire from Barns.
Is this true? It's been a long time since I last hired from them and to be honest in the past it wouldn't have been a problem.
I read that they take your car and park it up, then bring it back when you are due to return, I'm afraid they won't be able to do that with our car, it's heavily immobilised with a button sequence to start it. My partner would not be happy at all with someone moving it. It does have a tracker so we would know if it was taken for a spin.
Is there any truth in this? as we are due to go on Friday and it's one more worry I don't want to tell my fella, he's already fretting about his first boating holiday lol.
Why don't you phone the yard and ask them?
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8 hours ago, ExSurveyor said:
Looks like the whole company has gone into insolvency.
Must have been too cheap then? Warranty not a lot of use now then
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Just got back from one of our weekly breaks in Norfolk. Took a chance as when I booked it there were no 'photos as it was a new listing. Based in Neatishead it proved to be amazing and well worth the experience. If any of you are like us and don't boat in Norfolk anymore I would be pleased to give details if you pm me.
Whilst there I was lucky to have a look around the Sheerline boatyard. What an experience. Gary Applegate showed me round and I had a close look at the current boat they are building - a 30' aft cockpit due to be delivered in a few weeks time. What suprised me is that 50% of their work now comprises working on other peoples boats. It appears Gary is happy to quote for all and any type of work. I have witnessed the quality of work and if you need anything done I reccomend them. Happy to give details if you want to pm me. I must add that I have no business connection with these people, just feel they are more than worthy of a mention.
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20 minutes ago, Vaughan said:
Has it been that long? perhaps it has.
We have now moved house and I have found myself with a ground floor which is entirely garage and workshop. It was originally a stables. So I have the ultimate "man cave"! I spent about 18 months decorating the new house and then decorating the old one for sale, so then it was time to build a railway!
Here is the station area, as built in our old house, and now installed in the workshop :
And here is the rest of it :
I spent ages doing line drawings of the space, to try and fit something in until it dawned on me that a lot of modellers fit in the storage sidings on a lower level, under the scenic area. after that "penny" had dropped, it became a lot larger than I had imaged.
The scenic part of the layout will be just over a half mile in scale, so there will be room for genuine signalling, of both home and distant signals. Just at the rear of the train above, the scenery will rise gently to form a cutting, with a road over bridge to allow the train to disappear round the corner.
This what is called a transition curve, which starts at 15ft radius through the station and then reduces through 11ft, 8ft, 6ft and 5ft, where it joins the wall and runs down the gradient. This gives the illusion of a train disappearing off into the distance.
The scenery will fall away slightly on either side of the curve, before rising gradually into a shallow cutting with a road bridge at the far end. I am hoping this will look rather effective.
Another thing I have always sort of promised myself, was to run a 10 coach express train of Gresley main line coaches, hauled by a "Britannia".
You wouldn't normally have seen a train like this on the line between Dereham and Wymondham but so what? As they say, it's my train set, after all!
Last year, none of this was started when my family visited us on holiday but I sort of promised myself that I would get something running all the way round before my grandchildren came this year. It actually ran, about a week before they arrived! Happily, my nephew and his young family have also been to stay, and also enjoyed it.
It has been a bit of a challenge, as all of my locomotives and rolling stock are hand built from parts of kits and have never run on a layout before. So I have had to work out, when a coach comes off the track, whether the problem is the track or the coach!
There is now going to be a lot of adjustment, as well as installing the pointwork to complete the station goods yard, so from here on it will probably be another few months before I can say I have it running reliably. Only then, can I start on the scenery!
I can see now why that boat in Stalham don't get used! Well done
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12 hours ago, ruthandjohn said:
Hey there! We're out on the Broads around the same time, two weeks from the 1st in our case, on Sovereign Light. Thanks for writing up your posts in 2021 on the boat, as I was just reading over them - hope to see you out on the water maybe!
Hi. Welcome to the forum. We are staying in Neatishead for a week fron next Saturday but not on a boat I'm afraid. If you happen to be in the White Horse there I might buy you a drink! 
Have a great time.
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6 hours ago, mikeyboy1966 said:
Starting Friday we have a week plus to take a cruise.
we intend to head up the old west,through Ely.and explore the wissey,little Ouse and the river lark.
ill take some pics,
just got to get my last day at work out of the way!
Fuel tank has 175 litres,plus I’ve @50 litres in “Jerry “ cans
100 gallons of water wasat 450 litres will see how that goes(might have misread the manual?)
that said we’ve never run out of water.I’ll keep it topped off as there is a low bridge we would like to pass under on day 3.
we may well be 2” too high
Have a wonderfull time
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12 hours ago, Davydine said:
I was about 18 months old when I first set food on a Broads hire boat (Wavemaster from Brooms) they made a cot side for one of the bunks so that I didn't fall out.
The thing that I remember and associate with holidays and happy family time is the smell of diesel exhaust! I know that is a bit weird, but I must have made the mental link as a child!
Especially on first start up in the morning!
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14 minutes ago, charlesa said:
Stopping at the Elveden War Memorial on the A11 knowing that you were only an hour away !!!
Me too from Kent
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I sometimes miss the boats we have owned on the 'Broads' and other waterways but not so sure now. 
Hi. Welcome to the forum. We are staying in Neatishead for a week fron next Saturday but not on a boat I'm afraid. If you happen to be in the White Horse there I might buy you a drink! 
Have a great time.
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