JennyMorgan

Clive, try asking Derrick Amies at Gorleston Tackle. Knows more about Broads pike than anyone alive today. He has a acquired a few stuffed fish over the years.

Perhaps toll exemption should be limited to tenders that are oar or paddle powered and have a maximum length, for example, of 3.5m?

Now's your chance! http://www.edp24.co.uk/business/brundall_boatbuilding_firm_tackles_skills_shortage_1_3986282

Had this as a Google Alert: http://www.bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=144015 As I understand it new members are required to be previously independent of the Authority, indeed I thought that its a DEFRA rule yet these two are DEFRA appointees. Will they be any good? My feeling is that one at least is well qualified but time will tell.

Surely sailing boats over a hundred years old should be exempt from tolls! That could be funded by charging a supplement on all boats with twin engines! Over to you, Doug!

I have a copy! Have a peep on E-Bay for Black Sailed Traders, far more informative book. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=Black+sailed+Traders&_from=R40%7CR40&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=Black+sailed+Traders&_sacat=0

In some respect the toll does keep a cap on the youngsters aimlessly buzzing at around at top speed in circles in their parent's boat's tenders. I say this with some feeling as on popular coastal areas this can be a major irritant. That said I agree entirely with Strowager on this one. I'm not against youngsters in boats, indeed I feel we should encourage them, a £30.00 toll for a dinghy may not be that much to many folk but it is a deterrent to many youngsters, or their parents.

I wonder if Parking Eye's apparent willingness to pull out early has anything to do with the government decision to allow ten minutes grace before drivers are 'fined' for staying stay too long in council owned car parking spaces?

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/parking_eye_s_time_at_whitlingham_could_be_over_1_3985283 I'm given to understand that Norwich's 'dogging' community could be wagging their tails over this one! That aside Parking Eye have done nothing to raise the profile of Whitlingham's redundant gravel pits.

She would, if I could find her!

More wherries: http://www.becclesandbungayjournal.co.uk/news/picture_gallery_norfolk_s_well_loved_wherries_through_the_years_1_1807323

I've checked Craig's boat list, Three Wishes is not there, anyone seen her? Perhaps a non payer or visitor?

Is Mr Goats the Authority solicitor then?

Solace is often to be seen on Wroxham Broad. By the way, mustn't forget these good people: http://www.wherryalbion.com/

Ardea, Maud & Norada spring to mind. Eight wherries still afloat. Marshman is Mr Wherry so I stand to be corrected but I think that Maud & Albion are the only two wherries built for trading, the remainder were/are all built as pleasure wherries. Ardea is a teak built wherry but like Albion she is a Suffolk rather than a Norfolk wherry. Ardea was, for a number of years, a 'knocking' ship in Paris. http://www.wherryyachtcharter.org/wherries.php

Jeff, not for one minute do I think that Clive was trying to score political points but I do think that someone else was!

http://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/norwich_city_march_on_to_delight_alex_neil_after_crushing_millwall_4_1_1_3983468 Can they keep it up?

Would make a good pub sign! Glad that you all like it.

This time the Ethel but don't know when:

On a similar point of sailing is Albion as she enters Oulton Dyke back in 2013:

Don't remember where I found this evocative portrait of a wherry but hopefully you'll enjoy it as much as I do:

Simples! A thumb in each corner of the mouth, push outwards and backwards, she'll not be able to bite you, then with a drinking straw, like a pea-shooter, blow the aspirin into the back of the throat. Remove thumbs quickly, hold mouth closed until she's swallowed her pill. Works everytime although she might bark after it's all over.

Thank you, Paladin, please continue to persevere, the Broads is worth the effort!

We should all pay our share, no question of that. Mind you, the toll for my kayak is now over thirty quid! I am tempted . . . . . . . . . . . .

Thankfully I don't need those blue pills, yet!