JennyMorgan

My first trip on the Broads started in my mother's arms. I suspect her anguish at having to carry me, her baby, across a jittery ligger to her husband's brand new sailing boat transferred to me. Mum was a very cautious person at the best of times and I, I'm am sure, was carried very carefully and placed in the forepeak of a Waveney One Design, an experience that I must have subsequently enjoyed after the worry of the transfer. Many years afterwards I related the memory of this experience to mum, she expressed wonderment that someone so young could remember what had happened but it tallied with her memory too. Perhaps it was all down to dad's pride in his new boat and his new child. Maybe it was the sound of the water rushing past the boat's hull as I laid comfortably supported by spare sails and sailing cloths. Whatever, I have loved the Broads and sailing ever since.

The above makes a rather nice screen saver!

Here's one for you, Lorri: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Policing-Urban-Poverty-Chris-Crowther/dp/0312228465/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417378556&sr=1-9

Charlie, no man would ever be that stupid, surely?

Watch this space!

Well worth watching! Lots of sailing plus some social history.

There is a speedboat on the Broads called 'Esiotrot', I'm sure that you are all sharp enough to work it out for yourselves!! I think that it is rather clever. By the way, the owner doesn't come from Norfolk!!

Many years ago, when on the Oxford Canal, one of my then young daughters fell in. Oh, the anger, the upset, the mud! All turned to extreme pride when watching Worzel Gummidge she saw him fall in in exactly the same spot, an amazing coincidence and one that made a young girl extremely happy!

That one was/is clever!

Old hat now but back in the 60's there was a Merlin Rocket called Pheasant Plucker and another one called Pistol Dawn, very daring back then. Since then some names have sometimes become overtly suggestive, and not very clever, but I suppose that is a sign of the times.

To this day I vividly remember my first, long time ago view of Hickling as it opened up ahead of us. Something that has stayed with me all my life. Open, Norfolk skies and vast, by Norfolk standards, open water, spell binding. If other folk fail to see that way then they are truly missing something. Yes, best seen from the deck of a sailing boat!

There are a few famous faces on the Broads but I suspect that most, if not all, value their privacy and relaxation time whilst afloat.

There is nowhere on the canals that matches Hickling & Horsey for their sheer beauty, for example. I do enjoy the canals, yes, they are more interesting than the Broads, but the Broads is the Broads, and anyway, tacking up a 6'8" waterway is a blo*dy nightmare!

Part of the attraction of this program, for me at least, is the relationship between Prunella & Timothy. I have really enjoyed the program, even if it is a foreign waterway!

I would like to sincerely thank all of you who have submitted pictures and confirmed interest, my apologies for not replying individually. Now working with John on this one, taking longer than anticipated, but still alive. Watch this space.

All fair comments, Clive, not that I am any more convinced than I was earlier! I will agree that private boats are inclined to hogging 24hr moorings at the weekends, they certainly do down South. Re the SOB, yes, it would be interesting to see their log.

Sorry, Clive, not convinced. For example would we have had the extravagance of the Spirit of Breydon to support if it were not for the hire fleets? I've been hit and damaged more times by hire boats than I have by private boats. Where I am grateful to the hire-fleets is for the holiday orientated infrastructure which my family & I enjoy.

Don't forget that much of that 2000 miles is only 6'8" wide thus costs far less to dredge!!

“The Broads tolls are very good value for money, especially when compared to other waterways and in the context of all the valuable work the Authority is doing." We are being told the above, surely it is for us to decide? Or has it been decided that we 'little people' are incapable of thought? I do agree though, a reasonable and fair toll rise, for once. All we need to read now is that OUR toll is not being squandered on overheads unrelated to navigation, then I would be ecstatic! Negatives aside, if we have reached a plateau then it's about time too, good on the BA..

Can't agree with that! Using a baitcaster outfit, https://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=off&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1523&bih=815&q=baitcaster+combo&oq=Baitcaster&gs_l=img.1.3.0l10.4887.7352.0.13080.10.8.0.2.2.0.194.1118.0j7.7.0....0...1ac.1.58.img..1.9.1135.ERY3l8ULmeY#facrc=_&imgdii=98oVBggYLa7GeM%3A%3BA0SOsLOTy8L0pM%3B98oVBggYLa7GeM%3A&imgrc=98oVBggYLa7GeM%253A%3BwK5rO8wZq1XN2M%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fscout-story-images.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%252Fwired2fish%252Fmigrated-assets%252F2013%252F05%252Fseaguar-abrazx-casting-on-baitcaster.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwired2fish.scout.com%252Fstory%252F1467797-seaguar-abrazx-fluorocarbon-line%3B600%3B466 a forty to fifty yard cast is going some for most folk. If you are after bass then you really need to be able to drop your lure into the second trough out for any chance of consistent success. On some beaches the second trough can be well beyond that 40m mark and therefore beyond the ability of many.

John, have had some good bass fishing around Southwold harbour using a baitcaster set up.

Robinsons then Norfolk Knights then Larncer Marine then Pegasus Yachts. At some point in history a bloke called Lorrie ? bought the freehold which he has just sold to Badger Builders.

Clive, as a kid I must have walked or biked past your Dad's Caldecott Road yard hundreds of times without realizing it was Richardsons. I well remember Hamptons, Alec was a family friend and I delivered there at least once a week during the season. Prior to that I remember the yard area being under green corrugated iron with several undercover slipways, presumably dating from Robinson's wartime activities. For several years there was the carcass of an incomplete landing craft sunken over the rails. Presumably Will Parker took it on and converted the slipways to quay heading or was that something Dad did?

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/paddle_the_broads_new_canoe_centre_and_trails_1_3859395 Looks good! Gone are the days when all we had to do was walk to the water's edge and drop our kayaks/canoes into the water, clamber aboard and set off.

Clive's correction lead me to reading up on Carol/Broadland Memories website: http://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/blog/2011/10/oulton-broad-hire-fleets-of-the-past/ Long time ago & sure as heck my memory is only good after about 1958/59 but pants before that! I didn't have much to do with the yards until I became a delivery boy helping to take groceries to the yards when I was twelve or thirteen.