JennyMorgan

One or two posts were broken or lost due to ice back then so a temporary buoy is quite likely.

Good advice here: https://www.mynorfolkbroadsboating.co.uk/crossing breydon water to yarmouth.html

Sail and motor I can comfortably do Hickling to Oulton Broad in a day, RCC or in my Drascombe.

My perspective on the endless reeds is that of one most likely to be in a sailing boat, e.g. sat near to the water. From that lowly position I see all sorts of living gizmos whether it be otters, grass snakes, rats, pike sunning themselves or the odd seal for example. That, or the heaving, blaring metropolis of Horning? No competition in my mind!

I have to take issue with that! For those who are prepared to look there is just so much to see, from those ruined windpumps to the masses of wildlife.

I've heard that that Lady Jayne is a bit of a goer, hope that won't put Peter's back out and spoil his holiday!

Not if you are in an open boat it doesn't!

I've crossed in some really daggy/foggy conditions. I reckon those old timers were canny old *uggers when they spaced the posts out, leave one astern and within moments the next one will loom into sight, even at night.

Wherry at Bulcamp Lock on the River Blyth near Blyford and Wenhaston. The Lock was blown up by the Home Guard during WWII to as a precaution stop the invading Germans. Photo was taken in 1900s I think.

A Norfolk Wherry at Bulcamp Lock on the River Blyth near Blyford and Wenhaston. The Lock was blown up by the Home Guard during WWII to as a precaution stop the invading Germans. Photo was taken in c1900s, I think.

In the sixties Breydon was a big part of the adventure for holiday makers. Today, judging by comments on Broads related forums, it is more likely to be private owners that won't cross Breydon. Holiday makers have crossed Breydon for generations so why private owners should feel intimidated is a bit of a mystery to me. By not coming South they are missing so much.

Q, a floating platform might be cheaper. Either floating on water or on the marsh. In practical terms deep piled foundations are seemingly a thing of the past in such situations.

A very clever April Fool! Given me a smile and a chortle!

Really! To be perfectly blunt the idea of increasing speed limits is daft enough to warrant some speculation that it has actually come from a certain, unspecified, unmentionable source!

In principle I agree with Annv's very reasonable suggestion, other than the need for more power points. If boats are actually cruising, e.g. going South, then their batteries would surely be fully charged? Anyway, that's a minor detail. In principle down South needs to offer more than it does, I can't argue with that! Mind you, we have some of the best pubs on the Broads and quite a few of them. More public moorings at St Olaves is high on my list of desirables, not sure where though!

It is a fact that the BA has being seeking ways of spreading the load so to speak, if only to reduce the pressure on public moorings on the North Rivers. For the life of me I can not see that meddling with the speed limits will achieve that. Overcoming the fear that so many North Rivers boaters have of going outside their comfort zone, e.g. Breydon and tides in general, might help. It doesn't matter where you are on the Broads but a large proportion of boaters, especially at weekends, go no further than the first convenient 24hr mooring. They don't actually do cruising as such thus the reality is that boats on the Broads need two moorings, the one they go from and the one they go to and all too often they are not that far apart. No sense of adventure if you ask me! Nothing whatsoever to do with speed limits! And so to speed, some practical research clearly needed here. A number of semi planing and planing hulls, at 10 mph, create a pretty fearsome wash. At 10 mph a twenty footer might well be exceeding its theoretical maximum hull speed thus will also throw up a big wash. This one needs some careful thought. Increased fuel consumption, increased exhaust, increased noise in many cases. At first sight these proposals don't add up to being environmentally friendly, arghhh, I'm turning into a reed hugger! I am not entirely convinced that the date is irrelevant!

When I part owned the WRC the Environment Agency or whatever they were called back in the late seventies put in some test bores near where the 'new' shop was to be built. Forty to fifty feet before there was any support, four hundred feet before they hit anything really solid! At forty feet they retrieved the skeleton of an 'equus-equus', a small horse if I remember correctly. I offered it to the Castle Museum at Norwich but apparently they are quite common so they didn't want it.

No anger I assure you, just my puerile, observation based humour!

Surely a Basildon Duck then?

We went there today. 12.30 ish for a pint and a snack, it was closed. Thank goodness really, the place is a dire tip, if the outside is anything to go by. Other than the location I can see nothing whatsoever to recommend it. Undeniably uninviting. We carried on up tp the New Inn at Rockland, that is such a nice pub, they certainly know how to keep their beers, the Adnams Ghost Ship was nectar! Is the Beauchamp the worst kept pub on the Broads? Quite possibly, in my humble opinion.

Flash enough though! Might have white flipper-flops

Or even an Essex Duck?

It's going, it's gone, shouldn't we leave it at that?

Let's turn things around, would I hire a private boat on the Broads? No, implicitly NO! I'd hesitate hiring from any yard unless I was convinced that it had the wherewithal to back-up and support its fleet. Back in the day and probably still true today I could hopefully stop off at any Blakes or Hoseasons yard and know that I stood a pretty good chance of having my problem fixed and that I'd pretty soon be on my way, that alone is worth the premium of going through Blakes/Hoseasons in my opinion.

I was good friends with a young lady who worked for Penthouse, the smutty mag, back then. Her father, Mr Page, owned Olave but I don't recall any mention of Sundog so I suspect that of the two it was White Moth.