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thanks guys for the info, what really worries me, like i said in last statement, is that the price seems to have gone up quite abit already, but not sure if this is because of the merge of hose/blakes, if there is no healthy competition any more for hoseasons it may mean that they might hike their prices up too much, & price people like us out, who does decide the pricing for the boats ? does hoseasons tell the boatyards what to charge or are the boatyards doing that themselves ? i'm never quite sure . lori 
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hi all ive just been looking in hiseasons/ blakes brichure & noticed that our beloved boat has gone up in price to £880 which seems to be about £100 pound more than last year, but don't know if that includes fuel as i can't find the fuel price for that boatyard, i was told by someone on webcam chat that if you book through the boat yard direct that you can save £100, but we tried it a few years ago with astons, as we'd been with them 3 times but was still charged the same price, has anyone ever tried booking direct ? & have you really saved any money ? lori
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hi everyone i too have just recieved my hoseasons brochure today, & am not impressed with it at all, the boat pics seem alot smaller now & there's alot of other pretty little pics everywhere which i find a big distraction, i think if they want to put some pictures on of the broads then they should put them in the front or back of the brochure,not everywhere on all the pages, you can't seem to concentrate on the boats very well, i just hope this is because it's their first time at putting both companies together, lori
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good old caroline, she deserves it, she's one in a million, & her cakes are delicious,
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hi everyone just want to wish you all a very merry Christmas & a happy new year. lori
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hi all i will probably be having 2 breaks on the broads next year, first one in may sometime & the second one in september as usual, not booked any boats as yet, lori
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hi W44NTY it was a lovely card, the same to you too. lori
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Just a thought (I have them sometimes!), maybe they'll re-brand the two
into one bussiness? NOT Hoakes......
hi bill it would probably be more like blokes . 
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Many people are quick to slag Barnes off but they work damn hard, and that includes
Matthew, who never asks anyone to do something he can't, or won't, do himself. We moor
with them and can honestly say that we have no issues with anyone from the yard
at all. We see the day-to-day running of the yard and talk with the staff regularly
so know how things are going. There are big changes to take place soon as will become
apparent when they start, and they are investing a large amount of money in the
business in the coming months. I'm not going to divulge what, as it would'nt be
right, you'll have to wait and see. And as to "Bums in boats", isn't that what it's about?
But I doubt they'll convert them to 6 berth as they hired well enough as they are so why
would they change it? If they do, then by all means comment on it, but not before.
Sorry Neil, but had to be said.
Good to see you posting regularly again by the way!
hi buffalobill, i saw on fbook today that they are keeping the 2 berths as they are, & i had an email today from karen spooner, from barnes craft she said that they are building a NEW brinks quartet holiday cruiser, but i'm baffled as to where they are going to put them, because when you look on the webcam the yard looks full to the brim with boats. lori -
hi scot nice to see on here, & sorry to hear about the pinched rnli outboard, why can't these thieves leave other peoples property alone. lori
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thanx guys you've been a great help,
lori
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Looks a lot like the New Cut to me
NAH, looks more like harecastle tunnel on the cheshire ring to me with it's roof off, i was absolutely terrified going through there, especially when i heard the fans going off before we entered, & it was so dark in there, & just before we got to the end we broke down & nearly had a very large barge up our backside, but managed to get it going again, very scary, lori -
thanks guys, is there any other hotels on the south that you or anyone could recomend ? we've tried wroxham hotel & hubby was'nt impressed with the carpark, it had glass everywhere, so he could'nt settle at night thinking his car would be broken into, i'd have thought that the hotel would have had their own car park, we had thought about horning hotel, but it looks like they share their carpark too, so i thought we'd try somewhere different. lori
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yes, can't think of the type, but a small, norman/freeman thing... 4 berth with no saily bits on it.
I keep looking on the web, and dreaming.....
But i have told the OH, get one for about £7000, insure it, more it, fuel it, get to it, toll it, and everything else....
And it would be about £10k for the first year including buying the boat.
Then if we don't like it......sell the boat.... so will will loose about £5k
But if we don't try it, we wouldn't know.
one weeks hire is £500 (I go for the cheaper boats, out of season) so if we get 4 weeks in the summer time,(thats about £2500 hiring) and every weekend we can make it then £5,000 aint that bad.
not 
hi donnygeoff have you tried looking on ebay yet ? i saw two for sale last week one was an old wooden one, & the other one was a sedan type which did'nt look bad, don't know how much they went for as it was still in bidding mode, lori -
hi all we were thinking of staying at the wherry hotel at oulton sometime in november for the night, but i went on to the reviews section about them, & it gave out quite alot of bad reviews, from the staff being slow at serving food to the management not caring & the rooms being very outdated, ive seen the downstairs bars & imust admit it did need updating, has anyone ever stayed there ? & IS the service really that bad ? lori
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well their you go i learn something new everyday on this forum, lori iv walked up them stairs on to the high st many times, i love walking along the river through the town. the outlaws
live just up the road near raf scampton. never knew it was called the glory hole. 
hi andyg i can't believe how much it's changed, with all them student accomodation flats, & i really miss that lovely little club house pub, where they've built that big pub called the shed, why could'nt they have called it the brayford instead, & i used to like seeing that barge at the other side of the glory hole, that used to sell fish, & i still love to visit lincoln now & again, somewhere in braydon pool is my mums wedding ring, from when dad went & dropped it, plonker. lori -
Lol...... It Bogey !!!
Thanks for the welcome & invite Hockham Admiral ! At this point we have absolutely no idea where we are headed, just focusing on getting out of the boatyard safely after instruction, sure hoping the FP is easy to manoeuvre !!! In June we had a day trip over to Wroxham to look at the boats and decide which one to book. Then we took out a Dayboat for a couple of hours and got as far as Horning before turning round and we were amazed at how much waving goes on on the Broads - we shall certainly be doing lots of that next week !!!!
hi kugababe welcome to the forum, you'd better pack an extra arm you'll need it after all the waving all week your arm will ache hope you have a great time, lori -
Back in '81 we had a Colvic 30 and were stuck in Lincoln wanting to go under the Glory Hole..............
As it's non-tidal (locks both ways) we did indeed flood the bilges to about half way up the engine........
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] which could whip you through quite quickly. lori
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hi all ive noticed that alot of boats can't get under certain bridges because of the height of the river, when we used to travel on the trent when i was a youngster you used to see barges taking in water to weigh the boats down,i'm suprised that nobody's ever thought of a way to do it with hire craft, or would it be too dangerous for fibreglass boats to do that, they could take in water before they go under the bridge then bilge out once they'd got through. lori
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We are charging...
£100 per lift (in/ out)
£2 per fot pressure wash, (perhaps a little more if you have to many muscles on your bottom
)£7 per foot antifoul.
FREE hardstanding to our moorers...
£10 per week hardstanding .
if the antifoul is done and boat back in we knock £50 off,
we knock some off for bigger boats.
OR you can get someone else in to work on your boat or do it yourself.
Winterisation/Dewinterisation, £150 drain down and antifreeze engine and domestic systems etc including toilet pumpout.
Oil Change and filter Including fuel filters. (not full service) £65 (std 4cyl engine)
Sorry for the advert but it gives some idea of what to plan for over winter and rough costs.
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hi all i don't know if anyone has seen the EDP paper today but a boat caught fire,here is a pic,[attachment=0]002.PNG[/attachment] apparantly boat owners tony tibbit & his wife alison were in the boat at the time, at beccles quay, just off gillingham dam near bridge street, the couple had decided to take their boat CLEO out for a short trip, they got about 50 yards from the boarding when there was an explosion & then the engine caught fire,his wife jumped out of the boat & a passer-by on another boat came to help, he said that he was ok but his was devasted as they'd spent alot of money doing it up, the couple both suffered burns & were treated by ambulance crews ,it says that fire crews managed to put the fire out before it sank, it is rather a devastating story, it must be really upseting to watch your boat burn & sink like that, my heart really goes out to them both,
lori
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hi everyone just read a letter in webuser mag, some guy looked at his emails & stumbled across a Lloyds TSB email,he clicked on it& saw a message along the lines of, your account has been noted as having suspicious activity, all you need to do is click on this link & type in your user name & password," some people may fall for this but he did'nt, he noticed that on the email there was'nt a Lloyds logo, & the layout was'nt the same as other Lloyds emails that he recieved,
SO IF YOU'RE A ( TSB ) CUSTOMER PLEASE BE CAREFUL & DON'T GIVE ANY PASSWORDS OR USER NAMES,
just thought i'd warn you all 
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aah , WOW they look beautiful, i really miss the old boats, & that lovely wooden smell you use to get with them, it always made you feel like you were on holiday, i really miss all that, lori
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oooer john, that looked abit chchchopppy on there, i remember going across breydon a few years ago when it was like that, i loved it bouncing on the water, but my sister was very keen i think she wanted to go back, but we had to go to get back to boat yard, luckily we had a big boat, lori
thanks guys for the info, what really worries me, like i said in last statement, is that the price seems to have gone up quite abit already, but not sure if this is because of the merge of hose/blakes, if there is no healthy competition any more for hoseasons it may mean that they might hike their prices up too much, & price people like us out, who does decide the pricing for the boats ? does hoseasons tell the boatyards what to charge or are the boatyards doing that themselves ? i'm never quite sure . lori 
& she always makes you feel welcome bless her. lori
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live just up the road near raf scampton. never knew it was called the glory hole. 
lori
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