JennyMorgan

It is very successfully going downhill!

No engines, no sails, live-aboards moored above St Benets and waiting for the tide to drop thus the creation of the great tributary.

Regretfully many people consider that they do treat pike with respect and that it swam off when returned to the water thus it must have been treated well. They go home well contented, a while later I find the once healthy fish, now bloated and in the margins or floating on my slipway. I do despair at the angling skill, or lack thereof, of quite a few of my fellow anglers.

Fred, perhaps some of those part eaten carcasses were angling casualties before they became rodent fodder. Living besides the water I see some big pike being caught and returned by 'experienced' anglers, regrettably I sometimes find the same fish dead & floating in the margins.

Naaa, more like we are conscious of the deleterious effects of diesel on the environment.

It's the cost of colour matching the nail varnish that does it! All written in jest but with more than a ring of truth!

Firstly I agree one hundred percent with Marshman on this one. Beyond that the biggest risk to the big old ladies, in my opinion and experience, is anglers themselves.

That would require sick leave and subsequent cover which would involve the HR department who's charge to the Nav Account would need verifying and so the circle of seat polishing becomes self sustaining and perpetual! The owner of the lost nail taking early retirement due to the resultant stress and trauma.

Plus officer reports, chief executive's report, officer time (in triplicate), committee meetings, site visits and contributions to the general reserve. going through the motions of consultations even though decisions have already been made.

Some history of the race: http://www.coldhamhallsailingclub.co.uk/ynr/ynr.htm Boycee is right that it is a one day race, great efforts will be made to arrive on Breydon as the tide turns and then to be back at Coldham Hall before closing time!

Public services, not just the BA, will charge executive time, seat polisher time, proportional pension and insurance costs, holiday time, you name it to any and every job or activity in which it is involved, it's the way it's done. The BA has, like most public services, become something of a money pit, with you and me paying the bill, taxation without representation, abhorrent as it is . The BA is probably no worse than any other financially complacent, unaccountable public body.

Unsafe boats aside I rather think that a sunk or abandoned boat would have to be deemed a hazard to navigation before the BA is empowered to remove it.

Regarding that 'trailer'. perhaps such towable platforms should be subject to a sizable/prohibitive toll.

Temperance and sailing, surely a bit of an oxymoron is that! Temperance and motorboats, alien world but in order to prevent tacking by their helmsmen then perhaps it would be a wise policy.

Either when they run out of Adnams, run out of wind or get back to their moorings.

And the competitors had one less to avoid!

More snaps here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10162103677155332&set=pcb.10162103678580332&type=3&theater

Good looking sailing boat on the right!

Even a cack handed old buzzard can cut the flag out of suitably coloured Fablon and stick it on the bows of their boat, similar to hire boats of old. I've been meaning to do that for a year or two now and for the first time in three years Jenny Morgan is now out of the water for a well deserved, much needed tart up, better late than never so next year she will be sporting NBN badges on her bows, if all goes to plan! All you need is red and blue Fablon, the hull, even that of Nyx, provides the white, doddle of a job. The NBN flag on the top left of the forum page is what I have in mind rather than the one shown earlier in this thread, e.g. blue, white, red, white, blue, couldn't be more simple!

I just wonder what has been going on behind closed doors! Yes, at least one person has explained the legal reality.

A national ranger service, would that include mere n.p. family members I wonder?

It is interesting to note that the Rangers have reported a quieter August than usual. It might, as is suggested, be that political uncertainty is behind this drop in business, it might also be the high cost of hiring in August or the perceived overcrowding that is likely at that time. I can't help but wonder if the BA's executive hadn't hoped for an increase in business so that it could claim that that was a result of their misleading marketing campaign. Me, I blame the burgeoning cost, people are simply avoiding August, unless someone knows otherwise.

Back to my time on the Nav Com. if I remember correctly. by the time a wreck was removed, taken to the Thorpe dockyard and disposed of, the cost to the Navigation account, our tolls, would at that time generally exceed £5k, and might be thousands more. I can understand & appreciate the BA's caution on this one. Remember, it's our money.

Look what happened last time Packman went to Parliament and how the costs of that ill considered little extravagance mushroomed as they did!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-49522793