JennyMorgan

Or gracious dining comparable with the expectations that go with a £3,000.00 a week boat? Don't think that a bowl of mushy peas and a greasy burger on Yarmouth Market will cut it, not quite!

Indeed you did and welcome! Tell us, please, is this a restoration project or just curiosity on your part? Is she on Ellough Airfield? Yes, we are nosy people here, we just like to know!

Norman boats here: http://www.broads.org.uk/wiki2018/index.php?title=Norman_Boats_(Heywood,_Lancashire)

Which corner?

Such as Tingdene could provide suitable visitor moorings but I rather suspect that they would rather have a twelve month customer rather than the hassle of daily lets. With the loss of so many yards the old reciprocal mooring agreement is of little value. Perhaps the bigger yards could buy up moorings, if they could, or perhaps take out twelve month leases at marinas. I don't see any easy answer.

Or even a nightmare!

Rather think that the market is heading upwards, lead by Barnes. Fine, I don't have a problem with that. The 'luxury' market is there to be tapped. Problem, as I see it, is that folk who hire one of these super, deluxe boats will expect the same from on-shore facilities, especially with mooring availability. Will they want to mingle with us mere minions? Regretfully I see the Broads as a whole heading away from mass holidays, even mass boat ownership. Totally at odds with the kiss-me quick, pirates and stag party image that has long been Richardsons. One extreme to the other!

Original I am not!

Awwwww, you won't need that! Any real sailor will understand it all .

You'll go blind!

Like buying a brew and repeatedly lifting your drinking arm?

Any alternative ideas?

Writing about distances and what might be reasonable highlights a typical Broads oddity. The map shows it is 14.3 miles from Oulton Broad to Burgh St Peter by road so I could not reasonably go to the Waveney Inn by car, but then I could go by boat, by river it's only about 2 1/4 miles from my mooring. I wonder if it's open?

Likewise to you and yours. Don't think that we'll be going anywhere though. Picked up a decent piece of lamb the other day so that's Mothering Sunday taken care of, perhaps.

I might, if there were a really acceptable pub there! I'm afraid that I've been spoilt by the pubs down South and now Lathams has become just another QD, I'm surrounded by three of 'em, i've no real justification for going to Potter, even for the excellent hot dog stall, if it's still there.

The area in which I live is The Broads but for my wife and I to drive to Potter & back, with no detours, is getting on for fifty miles. Local, maybe, but is that a reasonable distance or within the spirit of the guidelines?

I have in mind a photo that I have seen of a wherry using the mast itself rather than the gaff. I suspect there were different rigs for different cargos. As for that ring, after some thought, I also wonder if it might not be to prevent chafe from the lower throat halliard block rubbing on the mast.

According to the TV News just now local means up to five miles. Until that point I would have questioned what is local but that distance seems reasonable. I wonder if Herbert Woods has not scored something of a home goal here. Wouldn't have thought that it's worth all the aggro.

A bosun's chair rigged on a Handy-Billy should do the job, also useful for breaking out the mudweight! There is a third use but I won't go into that here!!

I think that I should have mentioned that Chris Groves was NRA, National Rivers Authority, not the Broads Authority. Chris, like the first CEO of the Authority, was welcomed and respected. Both, like Charles Collier, understood the Broads and the unique character of the area, that the Broads was the Broads, not 'lakes known as Broads', or, heaven forbit, no I won't dare mention it! Changes are inevitable, but why destroy what was good?

Hello again, Andrew. I gave you some links that I hope that you have had time to read and inwardly digest in detail. A few further thoughts from myself. What should be clear is that 2009 legislation increased ten fold or so the powers of the Broads Rangers over their predecessors, due mainly to the changes which went through parliament back then. The job fundamentally changed with the new Act. All the safety issues, Hazardous boat check, the right to enter land to check for dangerous vessels, the Rangers can issue 28 day producers for BSC, Insurance, tolls etc, all of which once issued must be complied with in law, and last but by no mean least all the byelaws that came in with the Adjacent Water clauses. No, I don't agree with that last one! Mustn't forget the Countryside legislation that the Rangers now have to enforce. In comparison to today's Rangers, the old Inspectors had an easy life. The Inspectors duties were based on the requirements of a harbour authority, that was it. They wore smart uniforms, you didn't see them cutting the grass or shoveling barrow loads of the dreaded crushed concrete alongside 24hr moorings. Us locals see today's Rangers badgering away during the winter months, never saw the Inspectors doing that. Back in the day we, the great unwashed, would fraternize with the Inspectors, first name terms, pint or three at lunchtime in the bar at Coldham Hall for example. Dear old Jack Hunt was one whom who enjoyed being a friend to all. Mind you, he did his job and did it well. Charlie Collier, another Inspector, a Broadlander through and through. Lived in a house overlooking the Waveney, raced a Broads sailing cruiser. He's buried at Burgh St Peter, his grave stone features a picture of him sailing his boat. A hugely respected and well liked man, the likes of whom I personally miss at Yare House, especially in the upper echelons of power. Another link here, this time to an article written by Chris Groves, Charlie Collier's successor. This outlines some of the changes. I knew Chris well, an insider made good, he became a born again Broadlander of the highest calibre, a fund of dependable information. A pair of indisputable Gentlemen of the Rhond, I was privileged to be able to call them both friends. More than once Chris took the Authority to task, I remember him well! https://www.wisearchive.co.uk/story/water-way-life-2016/

Another wherry snap here:

A wherry hull is black and white, colour would be wasted.

I've been avidly watching the America's Cup racing in New Zealand and note that some of the spectator bling boats feature multiple deck fly-bridges, effectively five floor high gin palaces. How long before these beasts become the latest 'must have' for members of the Brundall Navy? A marina for five deckers in the heart of Norwich, maybe! I can just imagine those NZ multi floor boats having elevators, especially for legless mariners!

We can only hope so. As hopefully will the NSBA et al.