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Apparently they are going to put a floating pontoon in.

marshman, I try not to think too much, it usually gets me into trouble.

Many years ago the throttle cable came loose when I tried to slow down to join the Ant at the top of Paddy's Lane. We were on The Tamar Bridge from Bridgecraft and I had to use the bow thrusters to avoid an accident. We limped to Barton Staithe on tick over and called the boat yard, only took half an hour for his son to arrive and it didn't take him too long to fit the new bracket, it worked fine. When we returned the boat at the end of the holiday they apologised for the inconvenience caused, I was just thankful for the bow thrusters (so were the other two boats!)

It's just occurred to me, if the mooring is now part of Ferry Marina and they are members of the Broads Hire Boat Federation, is it free to moor for hire craft?

Pretty much the same reception for us, as if it was our fault somehow. We haven't been back, sort of put off by their attitude, plenty of boatyards out there to choose from.

We hired the Fair Prince just after it was launched, I believe we were the third to hire it. One morning heading through Barton broads it started to rain and we couldn't get the sliding roof closed, it had come out of alignment. We pulled up at Barton Staithe and called the engineers out to put it right. It took two and a bit hours for them to come out, they got it to close and said the roof should be closed from the outside, one each side and that was the best way to close it. I did ask who would helm the boat whilst this was being done as it's only a 2 birth, there was a centre pull handle, but it was heavy, awkward and draughty, due to it not fitting correctly. We did report it on it's return, I hope they sorted it out, there's never any feedback.