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  1. This one is August 83 and we are moored to a quay heading. We were on Sunset Six, the orange and blue AF42 from Beaver Fleet, St Olaves.
  2. We were moored there on Constellation 2 in 1964 and were hit in the stern by a large wooden cruiser. The transom had a dropped centre section and the result was a split about 10 inches long where the dropped part joined the rest. This was on a boat only about 12 months old. If we hadn't been aboard we may not have noticed the damage and possibly have been blamed when we returned the boat.
  3. I can only see I can only see 130 hire boat moorings on the plan. The other 60 are listed as Charter storage moorings - are they for hire boats they intend to sell?
  4. We did Boxing Day to Jan 2 on Moonlight some years back. It was a dry, sunny but cold week. As we were moored on our own almost every night, we just used the boats heating and remember it being quite cosy. We stayed south and some days didn't see another boat moving. The Broads are superb at this time of year. Enjoy.
  5. Perhaps it would be better if us billions didn't keep adding to it.
  6. This is the latest photo of one I can find. It was taken heading upstream on the straight reach above Bramerton in August 1982. I have somewhere a (very) short clip of film of one we met just above Reedham Bridge a year later.
  7. It's a really horrible place.
  8. We stayed in one of the turret rooms in the Red Lion some years back on a wander from pub to pub along the Norfolk Coast. We ended up at the Christmas show at Thursford. Red Lion had both decent food and ale.
  9. Pic attached is August 85. Definitely showing at least 8ft and I seem to recollect that a rise and fall of 3 to 4 inches was the norm.
  10. Is that not Langley Dyke?
  11. There is a 7/8 berth dual steer that will go almost everywhere (except through Potter these days). I've taken one through Wroxham at 6ft 7in and reckon there was at least 3 or 4 inches to spare at the shoulders. The same boat needs 7ft at flat bridges.
  12. Had a similar experience on the Canal du Midi about 20 years ago. There are a couple of very sharp bends where it was mandatory to blow your horn. We were on a 48 x 13.5 foot cruiser and approached one of these bends slowly and sounded the horn, there was no reply so we went ahead only to be confronted by the bow of one of the hotel barges which was mostly on our side of the canal. All I had time to do was turn the boat beam on to the barge and wait for the impact. Fortunately because of our low speed the contact was only glancing. The helm on the barge was definitely laughing. My little French deserted me so I could only give him a blast of Anglo Saxon invective. I rang the boatyard to report it and they sent a chap who just gave the boat a cursory inspection and said he couldn't see any damage but just to keep an eye on things.
  13. The 1963 Blakes catalogue has three different styles of name for the company: Their auxiliary yacht Golden Dawn; The "Months" class April Dawn etc and Fleecy Dawn are listed under: Dawn-Craft Ltd., Wroxham. Silver Dawn is listed under: Dawn Craft Ltd., Wroxham. The "Colours" class and Radiant etc are listed under: Dawn Craft (Wroxham) Ltd. This is possibly either a copywriter or printers error, or could it be for financial reasons?
  14. The originals of these came into service in 1975. These are going on to have another life elsewhere. I doubt if any of the modern trains will last as long. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2x8xj8mz3mo.amp
  15. 70s probably about right. I sat in the garden in July 1964 having breakfast and the garden was definitely a little longer than that. I don't remember the post and chain fence either.
  16. Hi David, Where is the bottom photo please? cheers Roy
  17. There was one in 1993. Don't know if there was another one on Woods' side of the river, but I imagine this one would have been hard to see to somebody not familiar with the area. Don't know if its still there.
  18. Interior of Brister's Yare Sunset 1 in October 94.
  19. He did last time I was there. I've always paid at Norwich as far back as 1963. My dad moored us overnight on the moorings just below Yarmouth Yacht Station rather than pay the fee in 1958.
  20. Presume its winter . . . no leaves on trees
  21. Pic of her in happier days:
  22. Worrying. I've just returned from a fortnight on the Llangollen and Montgomery canals, our first canal holiday since we sold our share in Winding Down in 2014 after many years of canal boating since 1984. Quite a few of the bridges definitely needed renovation work and a couple had large cracks in the brickwork - one in particular where the arch was coming away from its surrounds. The C&RT has repaired the banking under one bridge we passed, not with the original coping stones, but with what appeared to be a length of wood* about five foot long of similar cross-section of a balance beam, which will probably stop the bank from falling into the canal but is not in keeping with the rest of the bridge and as it was set back from, and didn't follow the natural curve of the remaining coping stones, would probably be susceptible to further damage caused by boats hitting it. If the funding is to be slashed i think the future for the canal network is bleak. * I don't think it was concrete as it was too smooth.
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