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Just coming to the end of a lovely week in St Ives (the Cornwall one) for my sister's 65th birthday. It's been dry more or less all week and sunny most days. Cool but very little wind, so very pleasant. Our apartment overlooks Porthminster beach, upon which we've sat at the cafe bar having a glass or two most days people and dog watching. A few brave souls have been swimming but none of them have lasted more than 20 mins.
Back to Manchester on Tuesday via an overnight hotel stop near Gloucester, then next weekend we should be able to go to our static caravan on its new site near Rhyl. The caravan is being transported to Rhyl from Butlin's Skegness on Tuesday and the new site reckon they will have it all connected up by next Friday.
I doubt if we will get any boating in this year (but you never know maybe at the back end of the season). We did manage two leisurely weeks on the Llangollen and Montgomery canals last summer, so if we do find the time I would like to return to the Broads even if, for health reasons, we only manage to potter about in the upper regions of the Bure.
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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.
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26 minutes ago, Broads01 said:
I always like seeing old photos of Salhouse before the mooring quays were created, they remind me of what it was like when I first visited as a child.
September 81
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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.
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15 minutes ago, garryn said:At Stalham according to the plan there are moorings for 196 hire boats or charter as they call them which is pretty much what they have now. This is the first year in quite a while that they haven't sold any off at the end of the season. The overall capacity to moor the boats will actually increase as the centre basin will be widened and lengthened.
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?
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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.
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4 hours ago, rightsaidfred said:
I think everyone accepts that the climate changes constantly, It's been happening for billions of years and will continue to do so for as long as the sun exists despite our puny efforts.
Fred
Perhaps it would be better if us billions didn't keep adding to it.
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12 hours ago, Broads01 said:
Would it have been the 1980s when they ceased?
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.
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8 hours ago, BroadAmbition said:
By the lock is one of our favourite overnight locations. Please stop telling everyone (Like wot I just did!)
Griff
It's a really horrible place.
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1 hour ago, NorfolkNog said:
Red Lion
when Mrs Nog has finished with the 2p pushers 
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.
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On 04/12/2023 at 22:36, marshman said:
It takes some stretch of the imagination to see at least 8' under Wroxham even in the early '80's - others clearly think otherwise but i never remember it being anything like that in my memory back to the mid 60's.
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.
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4 hours ago, Hylander said:
Hardley Dyke is a real sore point, not least of all it was a good place to dispose of your rubbish. Quiet, good fishing when you could, pleasant walks, no minus points whatsoever and guess what , they got rid of it. I mean you could not make it up and we are supposed to be encouraging tourism. I think the problem is we are encouraging the wrong kind of tourism, The Broads are not Butlins.
Is that not Langley Dyke?
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2 hours ago, Broads01 said:
Yep, forward steer boats are great for oop North, dualies are great down sauf.
It's not clear cut though. If I go to Beccles, I tend to want to go to Geldeston as well and I'd rather not worry too much about St Olaves or having to be bang on low water at Great Yarmouth. Centre steers give you the best of both in many ways but don't give you the viewing height of a dualie.
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.
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On 13/11/2023 at 00:42, Vaughan said:
Remember it well and how we all sneered at it! The skipper of Anjodi deliberately forcing hire boats (which he called bumper boats) into the bank and having a good laugh, then displaying his own professional incompetence by ramming lock gates on more than one occasion. He couldn't even steer it straight down the canal.
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.
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8 hours ago, GregAfloat said:
1. What is the name of the business? I have seen it referred to on the Web as "Dawncraft", "Dawncraft of Wroxham" and even "Dawncraft Boats Ltd". But these all date from the 1990s onwards twenty years and more after the boats were built.
I recently came across a builder's plaque photographed on a standard "Safari25" Mk2. that spells it "Dawn-Craft (Wroxham)" and I would assume, as it was created at the time the boat was built, would be more likely to be an accurate representation of the business name.
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?
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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.
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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.
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We hired her in October 94.
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Hi David,
Where is the bottom photo please?
cheers
Roy
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26 minutes ago, grendel said:
I am pretty certain there is a no turning past this point as you get to the pilot mooring section, because I always wondered how you would turn if you were moored up there.
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.
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9 hours ago, Dan said:
I am glad Roy has posted that picture, so I don't have to share that the original upholstery is as the rear cabin headboard
Do you mean this one Dan?
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On 20/09/2023 at 14:45, Broads01 said:
The interior needs some work on the basis of those photos. It looks like it still has the original Brister Craft upholstery.
Interior of Brister's Yare Sunset 1 in October 94.
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3 minutes ago, marshman said:
Don't forget too, there has always been a charge for mooring on the Island at Ranworth - if he bothered to row over and collect it!
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.
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Presume its winter . . . no leaves on trees
when Mrs Nog has finished with the 2p pushers 
St Ives
in Tales from Other Waterways / Places .
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Had drinks in there yesterday afternoon.