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JennyMorgan
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54 minutes ago, FreedomBoatingHols said:
In part this is a symptom of the ongoing restructuring of the industry with the sale of older, less attractive boats and the investment of the proceeds in new larger boats by some of the bigger yards, and the exit of smaller non-profitable operators."
I think that the clue is in the words 'ongoing restructuring', e.g. closures over a relevant period of time, not just this winter.
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26 minutes ago, Meantime said:
My only gripe and it isn't restricted to just this year is that I think the yacht stations should be left open all year round, but not manned beyond the traditional season. Ignoring the safety moorings and layby pontoons, there is a long distance between the safe 24hr moorings at Berney Arms and Stracy Arms.
I haven't and probably won't be out this winter but even last year I used the moorings at both Reedham & Yarmouth. It was clear that they were closed but nevertheless the moorings posts remained. If the moorings are left 'open' but unmanned then I suspect liability becomes the issue as perhaps does the requirements of the insurers.
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Just now, Vaughan said:
But the responsibility in maritime law rests with the charterer.
I don't doubt that but in order for a charterer to be able to make a decision they need to have knowledge and or information. Winter lets should perhaps, if they are not already, be limited to experienced crews.
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21 minutes ago, Vaughan said:
It is not all down to the BA, or the boatyard! If you want to hire off season, there are certain constraints that you must have sense enough to be aware of.
As we have seen this year a number of hirers are first time visitors both to the Broads and to boats. In this instance surely it is up to the hire yards to inform their clients of the constraints and shortcomings of hiring out of season. Perhaps they do.
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On 28/10/2020 at 08:44, welshwombat96 said:
In the early 70s, my family had a holiday aboard young jim and as a kid in love with the navy i had a blast. Can anyone tell me the fate of young jim please, as shortly after the holiday I moved to Australia and have not been able to visit the broads again yet!
Regards Antony from Australia
I believe that I am right when I tell you that she was intentionally burnt to the water-line and what was left was allowed to sink where, over the years, her remains have rotted away or sunk into the mud.
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I have never had a problem mooring at either Yarmouth or Reedham during the winter months. No help on hand but the mooring posts are still there.
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2 hours ago, Ray said:
One for the lawyers I think! Is there really a direct comparison in living on land you own and being tied up beside it?
I did refer to land owned by the boatowner. It has always been common practice to moor against one's own land on the Broads but that has been challenged by the Authority. In other words moorings can't just be created at will.
16 minutes ago, rightsaidfred said:No but somebody normally the Crown owns the riverbed over which you are moored on tidal waters so a tricky question to which I dont know the answer.
Fred
The Crown has accepted that in many cases landowners do own the land under a river to the centre point.
1 hour ago, Patrickgtr said:Does the broads authority "own" the 1st inch of the river bank?
Thankfully not! By the way, Patrick, an interesting post and welcome to the forum.
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The trains couldn't run either. Maybe things might move a little faster now!
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This article caught my eye. It concerns the land based traveler community and whether they can live on land that they own. In the non traveler community people also seek to live on land that they or their family own. There have been incidences at St Olaves where land owners have been told that they have no right to moor against their land, yet here travelers are told that they can live on land that they own. Surely there can be no difference between a traveler on land and one on water. I won't be fighting this battle but it's an interesting thought! There is surely no doubt that our local afloat traveler community is poorly catered for, especially around Norwich.
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5 hours ago, NorfolkNog said:
It makes sense that they may well let friends and relatives take them out.
It does indeed but nevertheless the owner surely still has a responsibility for his/her boat, especially if they are subletting on the QT, sharing costs with a bloke from work
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54 minutes ago, Vaughan said:
And it still raises the question as to how planning permission was obtained at the time, to desecrate an area of vulnerable wetland in the heart of the Yare Valley and then excuse it all by the charitable donation of a "new broad"?
However you look at it, it has left a nasty taste in the mouth. Branding the two pits, let me be generous, two lakes, as something that they are not, how history has repeated itself! (Allegedly in the name of marketing, ho ho ho!)
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To Londoners Thrupenny bit has a whole different meaning ;)
Such a coarse lot!
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17 minutes ago, grendel said:
there looks to be a nice body of water at thorpe marshes that might suit, looks big enough for considerable moorings off river and out of sight,
That area was suggested for residential moorings back in my time on the Navigation Committee. It wasn't favorably received at the time. However, since then the obvious need has surely increased.
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1 hour ago, Meantime said:
Wasn't that land given by the Colman family on the condition that no motorised craft were allowed on the broad, apart from rescue vessels?
Technically a houseboat is static, it has no power, e.g. no engine.
Perhaps the Whitlingham Charity should be more charitable but then perhaps the Whitlingham Pits is not the answer. Surely somewhere though is, but where? A few off river dykes/cuts as in days of old could be the answer. At the moment Norwich, as many places, has insufficient accommodation for those on a low income and it certainly doesn't provide for the floating population.
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4 minutes ago, Meantime said:
Time for the BA to start planning on how they are going to provide for and manage this extra increase.
In fairness they have been looking at the problem. They have also been keeping an eye on residential boaters and encouraging them to moor where public services can easily access them in the event of an emergency, especially so during the Lock-Down.
The Authority shouldn't be forgiven for the Jenner's Basin furour, that was a disgrace but subsequently they do appear to have become more sympathetic. Perhaps they are seeking a fair balance but I really don't think that that should include what on land would be regarded as an absolute slum. As things are Norwich needs to provide for a houseboat community, as it needs to provide for the travelling community. My wife and I had a drive out in the country yesterday, we were both surprised as to the amount of caravans seemingly in residential use, presumably offsprings in their parent's garden or field. People need homes and folk who are prepared to help themselves should surely be encouraged.
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At least it's off the main river.
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1 minute ago, BuffaloBill said:
So what's a 'houseboat' doing in there in the first place?
Perhaps the propeller 'fell off' so it can't go anywhere!
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4 minutes ago, Sam said:
Perhaps it would have been different if we had bought from one of the larger boatyard, I can only tell you how it was for me.
Perhaps he took a shine to you!
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As has been said, privateers don't generally get a handover when they pick up their new boat. Granted that many are ex-hirers and if so they should have an advantage, In the old days we had the 'thupenny bit' test. I'm told that it also applied to chauffeurs driving Rollers. A three penny bit was stood on its edge, and a boat should be moored, or the Roller parked, without the coin falling over! This is a thrupenny bit:
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25 minutes ago, catcouk said:
No, we're southerners I'm afraid.
No need to apologise, there are worse places . . . . . . . .
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22 minutes ago, catcouk said:
I remember an incident involving a very senior and long serving sailing instructor (not to mention ex-Royal Navy).
Ex Naval officers on small boats are often thought of as being as useless as billiard tables, spirit levels, lawn mowers and numerous other similarly useless on small boat thingumabobs.
The gentleman to which you refer, not a resident of Cantley by any chance?
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Dear Cat, the point that you are making has a history of support on this and the 'other' forum. Personally I despair at the lack of ability shown by far too many privateers. You would think that as a matter of pride that they would make some effort to master this boating lark, if only to protect their investment.
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22 hours ago, Graham47 said:
Alpha Craft had two Alpha 50s in their hire fleet. Mirage and Brabazon. They were 10 Berth. I remember Langford Jillings saying the BA had tried to stop him putting them in his fleet.
Perhaps the BA had a point! That said, perhaps they could have been built and marketed as engineless houseboats. Indeed judging by the number of boats that never, ever leave their moorings there is a huge market out there for static boats. second homes.
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On a Broads sailing cruiser the tiller is more normally on the centre line, it's way over to the left / port side on this one.
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Lens's Gift To The Nancy Oldfield Trust
in Broads Chat
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https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norfolk-broads-direct-donate-boat-to-nancy-oldfield-trust-1-6908049