JennyMorgan

You let go, gosh! So long as the 'sally' didn't go up through the hole then you could have enjoyed the ride. I have never managed to break a stay although I've bounced one or two. In my early days I was ringing at Chichester Cathedral when I got right out of place and too many bells were ringing at the same time, weird, apparently the tower walls are sixteen feet thick yet we could feel the momentum of the bells actually moving the tower. The tower captain was understandably not happy.

Apparently the corner caught under the jetty's whale as the tide rose.

Amen to the above, especially the hope that there 'there will be more people operating in the way the broads used to work'. Yes, we must have the right to say 'no', but equally we should have the right, and desire, to say 'yes'.

Only in Yorkshire!

I met a gentleman at Beccles last year who had suffered over £400.00 of damage to his bathing platform when he had previously moored there. Marina moorings tend to rise and fall with the tide in tandem with moored boats.

VHF channel 16 too?

Two things wrong! Some out of date individual called a Navigation Ranger a River Inspector, what a faux pas!

For the first time in some weeks I took a peep elsewhere, seems that not everyone is 100% behind Clive's booklet. I won't say what I think about some of the comments! Seems that Clive is already being gunned for!

Strow wrote: Here's one of Haynes latest, cruising quietly along a Broadland river. How can it possibly be described as "unsuited" to the Broads ? Because it won't pass under Potter or Beccles Bridges!

Just so folk know: http://www.bellringing.org/

I well remember the clamour of the underground from Liverpool Street to Earl's Court. For whatever reason we came out of the station opposite Earls Court and there, at the entrance, after her voyage around the world, was Gypsy Moth. The impact, the wonderment, an amazing experience and, as Strow has highlighted, the show catered for the ordinary man. Not just the ordinary man but the enthusiast and the dreamers. I first fell in love with the Drascombe concept way back in the 1960's when the first Lugger was exhibited. The crowd of dreamers around her was several folk deep but there was a boat that was achievable although it was several years before I did achieve it!

I think that the relatively small rings carried on the Broads are more for holding onto rather than putting over one's head.

Re lack of chandlers, going back to Earl's Court, chandlers back then claimed that they had to elevate prices by 10% to cover costs and 10% to cover shoplifting. Today we have the internet so theoretically show prices could be 20% more, don't think that the savvy punter would wear that.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/celebrating_300_years_since_first_true_peal_was_rung_on_norwich_church_s_bells_1_3912766 I'm not a fanatical bell ringer, I don't spend my holidays 'tower grabbing, but it is something that I have dabbled in for over forty five years. Nevertheless I did not know Norwich's place in the history of bell ringing. The history of Broadland is indelibly linked with Norwich, although Norwich seems to have distanced itself from its waterfront.

The marina at St Olaves is between Gt Yarmouth and Norwich, it's reasonably well placed for bling boats that want the option of Broads or briney, it's more easily accessed than the Waveney River Centre, probably easier than much of Brundall, yet it remains as it is. The Waveney River Centre shows what can be achieved, despite being well off the beaten track. The Boathouse on The Trinity Broads is also a good example of what can be done besides the water. Good development needn't be a magnet for thieving scum. I'm quite sure that the marina could be a jewel in St Olave's crown, if both it and the community wanted it.

Strow and I have debated this almost ad nauseum. He's a great fan of bathing platforms, I'm not. My one gripe is in stern mooring the platform can easily, and I've seen it happen, snag under a jetty or key-heading resulting in damage or possibly even a sinking. Personally I would like to see simple steps molded into a boat's transom, could be a doddle to DIY.

Nice things to put names on, one of mine has 'Titan Uranus' on it. Amazing what you find drifting about!

Not quite! One of the yards at Burgh Castle, Good-Childs, services life-boats. There is an RNLI station at the other end of Breydon though, at Gorleston, and judging by reports in our local papers the RNLI rescue rather more folk than the SOB does.

I will agree with Josh that St Olaves Marina is something of an eyesore but I also agree that it is an ideal location and that the facilities for those moored there are excellent. I never could understand why the proprietors are content in having it look like it does. Hopefully this latest saga will be the key to them taking a far greater pride in the appearance of the place.

Many years ago now Oulton Broad was dredged and my daughters had a wonderful summer recovering old and antique bottles and all sorts of goodies from the dried mud. Amazing just how many egg-cups and teaspoons they found, presumably thrown over the side with the washing up water. Was a time when folk washed up in a bucket or basin. Not only did we find bottles, cutlery and crockery but also numerous smoker's pipes, spectacles and even some false teeth. Amazing what folk throw/drop/loose over the side. We also found ammunition, an anvil and quite a few mudweights. Never did find a saucepan though.

I've just been for a brisk toddle around Oulton Broad, brrrrrrr! Bitingly cold on the extremities with a near gale force wind. High tide on the 'salt side' at Oulton Broad was high with the sea water floating the wooden bridge across Mutford Lock so that had to be closed. Minor flooding on Oulton Broad itself but that has all gone away now.

Re stern/bathing platforms perhaps this is the answer: http://www.goodchildmarine.co.uk/commercial-gallery/retrofit-man-over-board-platform/ Falling in is easy, getting out is not. Indeed on many motor boats it's nigh on impossible. Perhaps this is a subject that we should discuss? With far too many of us being far less fit than we should be, especially being overweight, recovery of a casualty is sometimes no easy task. As my wife has asked, more than once, if I were to fall in how on earth would she hoist me out? Once upon a time I could glibly answer that I could pull myself out on the bobstay, the chain under the bowsprit, but those days have regretfully passed! How would you get out?

10B, save you looking!! http://www.goodchildmarine.co.uk/commercial-gallery/lifeboats/

10B, you'll often see an RNLI lifeboat at Burgh Castle, not far away

I can never understand why folk buy fenders. Thanks to the generosity of the hire fleets there are always handy, ex hire-boat fenders floating along in the tide waiting to adorn the sides of a privateer!