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JennyMorgan
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7 hours ago, Regulo said:
No, they wouldn't let him aboard. Too scruffy.
So we've met!?
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10 minutes ago, psychicsurveyor said:
Peter, Are you the one at the front.
Just keeping an eye on things you understand! The miserable old sod in the companionway, can't think who he might be though
although I could make a guess!
It's well out of copyright, prints up nicely.
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20 hours ago, Vaughan said:
Here's another one then, from the same brochure!
There was no-one on the wheel, when that was taken!
Shoulders back, stomach in!
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22 hours ago, JennyMorgan said:23 hours ago, Vaughan said:
But I repeat my fear : no amount of official tick lists or classroom training, can give you that practical experience.
RYA dayboat certificates then?
Vaughan, I see where you are coming from. My suggestion was intended for those organizations that flourish on tick boxes rather than experience. .
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1 minute ago, Vaughan said:
I think you did actually.
Albeit three pages ago!
If I did that certainly wasn't my intention! I'll have to have a look.
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14 minutes ago, rightsaidfred said:
I like everyone else don`t know the detail or possible outcome only the proposal which anyone can read online, if memory serves me correct didnt the BA make a contribution towards earlier forms of this.
Like you, Fred, I don't know the detail. It is only right that the BA is to be reacting to this summer's accidents and the general need for safety awareness. Whether the industry will welcome their well intended interference is another issue! I think that we'll both agree that there are some privateers who would benefit from both boat handling and safety advice. Perhaps someone needs to take the lead, it might as well be the BA.
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12 minutes ago, marshman said:
On the PB2 course, you do have to attend and it is a full 2 day course. Cost? About £300 p p I believe - thats quite a big cost to the yards and to be honest ,its only a piece of paper and will not stop one single accident! Do you really think that it would help one iota because if you do, I think you need to think again
Has anyone here suggested that boatyard staff do a PB2 course?
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For all that, Fred, there is a case to be made that it should be funded by the hireboat industry, if it is aimed solely at hirers. If the aim is to produce a general boat handling and information website available to all then the 20K would seem very reasonable as a cost sharing exercise.
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9 hours ago, marshman said:
And as for suggesting they take an RYA course, thats totally irrelevant as I know plenty who have and they still cannot drive, steer, moor or sail a boat - just as everyone who has passed their driving test cannot all drive as we would expect.
53 minutes ago, marshman said:I believe the only RYA certificate that is required to handle any of the BA craft or indeed workboats is the RYA Power Boat Level 2
https://www.rya.org.uk/courses-training/courses/powerboat/Pages/level-2.aspx
The above looks reasonable to me. I now have a picture of a weekly 'wherry' race, spoil lighters/mud barges, planing under Potter Bridge! Whatever, the syllabus appears to be relevant. Would you. could you pass, be honest now?
Problem being that experience has no quantifiable qualification, unlike an RYA certificate.
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1 minute ago, Vaughan said:
Maybe I had more hair?
Must also have had a brown rinse back in those days!
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9 minutes ago, Vaughan said:
As it happens, the two people on board in the photo, are Susie and I!
That's not the diminutive Vaughan Ashby as I remember him from our mutual schooldays!
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7 hours ago, Vaughan said:
I have no idea what that is, or what it involves but the word dayboat suggests it may not be relevant to instructors for a weekly cruising holiday?
i might be wrong but I believe that all the Navigation Rangers have to achieve said RYA certificate, as has the CEO.
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Reckon forum members could moor four abreast across the mouth of your dyke. A full English would be appreciated before eight o'clock!
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When officialdom wades in then it all becomes a tick box exercise where experience counts for little.
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4 minutes ago, Vaughan said:
But I repeat my fear : no amount of official tick lists or classroom training, can give you that practical experience.
RYA dayboat certificates then?
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Fred, you too are quite right. The criticisms by the various Nav Com members was that the reserve was unreasonably large, without purpose and some of it should be released, which is now happening. Pushing did become shove though!
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Prices do seem to be very inconsistent. Some good stuff there!
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What is forgotten, or at least ignored by some at Yare House, is that for many of us this is our home, not just a career path with a healthy pension and perhaps an undeserved gong at the end of it.
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12 minutes ago, dnks34 said:
When there are 1000s upon 1000s of boat owners providing a very large part of their yearly cash flow they can carry on wasting as much as they like on whatever whim takes the fancy.
In fairness a great deal of money is spent wisely and that deserves both respect and support. Agreed though, the whims are the problem.
I might be wrong on this but as far as public bodies are concerned, is a CEO's remuneration, in part, based on the size of his workforce? In the private sector the reward often comes from controlling costs but in the public sector it appears to be the other way around. Just a thought.
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2 hours ago, Gracie said:
Why is it that the few complete numpties who use the Broads like a race track with total disregard for anything other than their own enjoyment spoil it for the rest of us and we all get tarred with the same brush?
It's not just the issue of antisocial behavior by the few, it is also the issue of the occasional saturation boating for which the North Rivers is gaining deserved infamy. Long may the Upper Thurne remain an antidote to Horning and Wroxham on a sunny Bank holiday Monday!
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1 hour ago, YnysMon said:
I didn’t get the impression that the BA is awash with money.
It has maintained a healthy reserve, to such an extent that the Nav Com complained & demanded that some of it was spent. Also, as I have said on numerous occasions, our toll pays out about 50% towards overheads thus releasing money elsewhere. Then, of course, we have the thorny topic of unnecessary BNP road signs, BNP station signs and BNP murals. There is also that laughable Acle vanity project, the much vaunted, oversized BNP visitor centre that was too big for the building site. Thankfully it came to nothing but with officer time and prize money must have cost well in excess of £100,000.00. The BA may not appear to be awash with money, but they certainly know how to waste it, when it suits the agenda.
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24 minutes ago, marshman said:
Do we really want to turn an area which should remind us all what Broadland is all about, into a booze fuelled haven for people to ruin?
You make a very valid point with the above.
I'll make another, when I visit Hickling by boat I take away memories but I leave nothing behind, not even my wash.
The point at issue is that the river above Yarmouth is demonstrably shallower than it was and the knock on effect is that the the tidal flush is reduced meaning that less and less boats can access such as Hickling. Certain BA officers have in the past suggested that the Upper Thurne should be boat free.
No, I don't want to see Heigham Sound reduced to M25 at leaving off time status but I do want to see it available to those who appreciate it for what it is.
Potter Bridge is low and air draft is lessening. I don't advocate removing or lifting the bridge but the limited traffic that does access Hickling is doing no harm. I don't see that there would be any gain in further limiting access.
For people to be able to enjoy and savour the magic of Hickling requires access and access by boat doesn't even leave footprints.
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Perhaps I should rephrase my question! Conservation and exclusion by strategic neglect?
although I could make a guess!
The Broads 1890
in The Historic Broads
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No fast sports boats creating waves and giving them some excitement!!