JennyMorgan

I onced doubled up at Yarmouth, alongside a hire boat! Got screamed at to eff-off in best Essex. Quay Ranger came along and told the hirer, in no uncertain terms, that he had never encountered such a response. The Ranger then went on to help me tie up. I was going through with the tide, arrived early, had just one chance to turn into the tide and grab a boat. No opportunity to ask, just grab hold, but that is boating.

Personally I think that Marshman nailed it fair and square.

A very, very low tide on Oulton Broad this morning. Last night's high tide was pretty normal at about 7.30. That being the case I would have expected this morning's high tided to be about 8.00, only it wasn't! Indeed the tide was lower than a normal low tide. Moral of the story, don't take a tide-table as guaranteed, amazing the difference a bit of wind can make. Probably be able to get a three decker bling boat through Potter!!

Northern Nancy is on the warpath!

Don't worry about the wind, Clive, Griff is well used to a gale up his jacksie when coming up the North Sea.

No one is actually denied the wonders above Potter Bridge, hiring a dayboat from Whispering Reeds is good!

Grace, he's married!

Note the houseboat on the left, once a landing craft built for the one way trip onto the Normandy Beaches. Many of the unused ones found their way onto the Broads but whilst they made grand houseboats I don't know that many survived into the sixties. Surprisingly, at least to me, many were built of plywood and steel.

Ludham Bridge, in quieter times.

1920/30 I suspect.

Uncle Albert is legendary for his silent, long winded ones, that will be his crew's problem. As for two beagles, arghhh, especially if they both wedge their rear ends against the cabin side nearest my head!

Can cope with our snoring brethren, its farting dogs on a neighbouring boat that I have problems with. The loud staccato of a canine 'hot water bottle & two bottle of pop' vibrating between two moored boats can be quite disturbing.

I've been in or on the Broads most of my life, I did have a few years on the South Coast, and my parents, grandparents and great grandparents were here before me. Some things, customs & traditions I suppose, have passed down to me and from me to my children. I have to be honest, somethings like mooring alongside another boat, here or down South, I have always taken for granted, it has long been the way both of the Broads and yachtsmen in general. Common courtesy comes into this, I wouldn't moor alongside a boat that intends to leave on the 0500hrs tide unless I was going to too. I wouldn't clamber over someones decks in hob-nail boots either. I would not rely on his mooring ropes nor would I expect him to rely on mine. I would expect to be able to moor alongside another boat just as I would expect another boat to expect the same courtesy from me, that is the traditional way, the long established custom of the Broads.

Strow, wholly understandable.

I have to say that I have found the comments regarding that other place to be restrained and wholly reasonable. It is regrettable because it reflects on the Broads boating community although, thankfully, most folk rise above it and shrug their shoulders, it really doesn't matter, it's the other place's problem. Thank goodness we have an alternative in NBN. Clive, bless him, has perhaps made an error of judgement, in the eyes of some. Personally, whilst it might be wrong, i think that he was right, if that makes sense. If folk don't want to double moor then, quite simply, they shouldn't moor where it is encouraged. We don't choose who we moor next to when we moor stern-on at Oulton Broad Yacht Station or Ranworth for example, why should we choose elsewhere? Now, having lit the blue touch paper, I shall retire gracefully. By the way, a forum is only as good as the moderation team behind it, agreed?

Ditto:

Wouldn't have wanted to row that lot against any wind!

Sailing up Ranworth Dyke. The half decker on the right might have been on Oulton Broad until a few years ago. That unusual transom is very similar to a boat that used to be kept in the dinghy park there.

I'm fairly certain that this is Ranworth, at a time when harvesting weeds was not frowned upon, early 1900's again.

The trouble with non wooden boats!

Early 1900's again. What some local country folk called 'Meadow Ladies', unlucky to refer to 'em as cows for some reason. Wonder if any of their relatives are still around, we all know about inbreeding in Norfolk!

BB, any clues as to why she went down?

Being so sour would they sink to the bottom?

I don't remember the make of the boat that was damaged but I do remember that I admired it and was told that it was an American import, not a Bayliner. To be honest I would say the platform was not unlike the Haines one in Strow's collage, not one of the screw on type shown in the first three examples. We must remember that most Marinas worth the name have finger jetties that allow a boat owner to moor up without the risk of the platform catching on a quay heading. A door in a conventional transom seems to me to be the best compromise.