JennyMorgan

Borrow's Ham, Oulton Broad this evening:

Great stuff, thanks for posting. Was it overtaking you?

And there was me thinking that half of Essex was in Yarmouth!

Oulton Broad to Beccles, about eight miles, then out with the bus pass and a free trip home!

Lorry style rear view mirrors?

Depends which way you are heading!!

Surely a 'gateway' would be on the boundary? Geographically Oulton Broad & Gt Yarmouth are the liquid entrances to the Broads.

Surely West System resin and scrim would have been the answer.

Carol, this link might help: http://awalkaroundoulton.weebly.com/walk-3.html

Carol, great stuff, thanks. By the way, Fisher Row is actually just outside Oulton Broad, Oulton Dyke and accessible by footpath along the Queens Highway from Camps Heath, not exactly that near Beccles! Between Oulton Broad and the Dutch Tea Gardens.

Won't need to cover for theft! Who on earth would want to nick my ashes, unless they wanted to fill a pothole?

Everything flows briskly out through Yarmouth, does that make it the er-hem unmentionable of the Broads? Oulton Broad was, for many years, quoted as being 'where Broadland meets the sea', I liked that. Perhaps Yarmouth is actually the Gateway to the Broads, so don't forget the Countryside Code, 'close the gate as you leave'. Do I know the definitive answer? No! If it's Whitlingham's redundant aggregate pits then I hope folk don't leave too late, Parking Eye will undoubtedly grab them.

My kids are rather looking forward to my demise as an excuse for a grand Viking funeral! So no, I can not retire my boat, not just yet!

I rather wish that this thread had not actually started, let alone developed, but it has & I suppose I have contributed to that, sorry.

Paladine & Strowager, how right you both are. However, in reality a number of us have turned our backs on the other forum & taken up residence over here, I suppose that makes us defectors, whether we see ourselves in that light or not. Personally I have spoken to John, Holkham Admiral, myself feeling slightly uncomfortable at making the move. After all I had never been a member of NBN, for various reasons that are entirely irrelevant now. John, bless him, made me entirely welcome, I thank him for that. I personally looked at Google, not to gloat, more to see how a long time friend was faring following what I regard as a very regrettable mood change. It is sad to see an old friend flounder but it had become time to move on. I am grateful to NBN for its welcome.

Not only as a friend, but also as a business associate and, in my younger days, my boss. I worked in Brochure Dispatch during the winters, we shifted absolute mountains of the things.

Spider, having sailed both I reckon the WOD is the better river boat whilst the YBOD is the better boat on open water. The WOD, well sailed, can, in my opinion, work its way along a bank with fewer tacks than a YBOD. There's a nice WOD on E-Bay at the moment!

Perhaps a statue to a Broads hero mightn't go amiss either. For me the obvious contender would be the man I regard as the father of the modern Broads, Jimmy Hoseason. Could be a long list, who would you choose?

Spider, I'll have to resurrect my diary but as part of this hopefully ongoing thread.

Not a particularly good picture but hopefully interesting to sailies. It shows a Waveney One Design sailing on Oulton Broad during Oulton Regatta 2014. Incidentally W10 was built for my father immediately after World War Two. Dad was one of several local business men that ordered new boats in an attempt to re-kick-start the local economy and the new yacht club. The Waveney was designed as a class boat originally for the Waveney Yacht Club, later amalgamated to become the Waveney & Oulton Broad Yacht Club in 1946.

Nice one folks, here's one I made earlier! Oulton Dyke a few evenings ago.

I just tapped 'Norfolk Broads Forums' into Google and guess what, NBN topped the list! Must be a lot of defectors out there!

Simon, good to see you over here.

Right, here goes, but I will keep it short! The Broads are quite unique within the National Parks family in that the Broads has its very own Acts of Parliament. The Broads, unlike the National Parks, has three core purposes rather than just two. Our extra purpose is navigation. Effectively if two of those purposes take precedence then the third could hold no relevance, although that rarely happens. The case of the National Parks is that if both of their two purposes hold equal weight then the Sandford Principle kicks in and conservation takes precedence. The Sandford Principle, if invoked on The Broads, could theoretically override navigation, arguably unlikely but entirely possible. Under the present leadership there are those of us who consider this to be a wholly justified fear. The Broads is The Broads, plain and simple. Our legislation is unique to us. We receive National Parks grants because, I suspect, there is no other convenient way for the government to allocate us money. It does appear that planning is about the only thing where we really are the same as a National Park, and many of us question whether that is entirely good for the Broads. The Broads can not be a National Park as the legislation stands, the Broads Authority is also our Navigation Authority. The Sandford Principle could, unwisely used, give conservation priority over navigation, e.g. the Upper Thurne could be threatened. We would have more than a small bridge to contend with! The Sandford Principle is the problem, why we can't be a National Park.

The thought of racist comments to Jason has, because I sometimes have an obscure sense of humour, set me smiling. Us locals do get comments, and sometimes they can be amusing. It's well worth watching Canary-Call on You-Tube, yes, we do deserve those comments, sometimes. Local Yokels, Straight Family Trees, Carrot Crunchers, we still go 'arrrr' when an aeroplane flies overhead, we are slow, never do today what we could do tomorrow and so on. Mind you, on the other hand I do have a few crackers about city folk so the balance is easily righted, ho ho ho!