JennyMorgan

Finny, she does create a trough as she travels along on a windy day, Quite simply she was sitting in her own trough, plus she was heeling!

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http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/100_year_old_phyllis_was_a_pioneer_of_boating_holidays_on_the_broads_1_3731235 Interesting bit of Broads history.

No rears this time, taken this evening:

The clue, Finny, is in the angle of the mast!

Editing posts anonymously can be a slippery slope. Not only anonymously but also without justifying a post's removal. Please, don't lets go down such a slope. It's happened elsewhere, surely we are above that sort of thing.

110 year old Maidie out racing today.

Finny, will this rear end do?

Windy today! http://www.xcweather.co.uk/forecast/NR32_3PJ Will our Lady Boy be thrashing the waves in his Lady Bird later today?

Mowjo, in life I have always found blonds to understand such things. Gingers, on the other hand, different kettle of fish altogether

We use fleece sleeping bag liners right through to October, and we don't have central heating.

Not all my Oulton Week photos have their fans. One gentleman was so incensed by one particular shot, not exactly rear of the year although not a million miles away, if you get my drift, that he left the two forums that I then frequented, He then became a founder member of another Broads forum. Haven't dared apply for membership, yet!

John, don't have the expertise but suggest that folk stay well over to the left as they enter the Broad. That said watching MAFI's panic when confronted by a gaggle of bowsprits and topsails can be entertaining!

Clive, we intend to be out on Spray 150. Re photos, tiller held by one foot, sheet in one hand, camera in t'other, simples.

The pen is always mightier than the sword!

We'll all be watching out for a Lady Boy! Curiously Lady Bird, number 13, is a double ender. Read into that what you will Kadensa, I think I'm right in saying that there is an evening race every day except Thursday and possibly Friday. Clive, glad to see that Lady Bird has gone to a good home.

Clive, may I cheerfully hand over the honorary title of 'Number Eight Mark' to your goodself? For those who don't know it there are only seven marks on the Broad.

From Sunday onwards, http://www.wobyc.myzen.co.uk/ I will be out there snapping away & will probably post a picture or two.

Whilst the rest of the fleet will be rushing around like there is no tomorrow! Just incase no one knows it's Oulton Broad Regatta next week.

It was a spectacular sky over Oulton Broad this afternoon with an awesome thunderstorm over to the West, then it closed in on the Broad and the heavens opened, and I got soaked! Great being out there until it turned to sleet & that stung! As the sun set the Carlton Marshes were covered in a low lying mist and a mist started to rise off the Broad. Might be worth getting up early to see if there is a misty sunrise.

Hopefully the NBN has been able to help Richard H. I have just found this one, a 1960's snap of Robinson's boatyard. A busy scene that, for me, is full of memories. As a youngster I delivered groceries to the boats at Robinsons so got to know both the boats and the staff, great place to be around. In the background is a counter sterned boat, an ex admiral's barge, called, strangely enough, The Admiral. Double diag. teak built, a lovely old liveaboard. Tender as a rotten apple! She was slipped nearby and just sagged on the cradle. She was quickly relaunched, don't know what happened to her after that. On the right, outside the Wherry Hotel, is the Elizabeth Simpson, an ex lifeboat with a history, I used to scrounge trips on her. Worth googling. Ahead of her is Rulu, a double ender, belonged to a well known pathologist who was also an excellent photographer. Great bloke, taught me a lot. In the foreground there are a couple of trip boats. The one at the front was owned by a Joe Garwood, once a quality boat-builder. He always worked in a tweed jacket, shirt & tie, shabby but smart. He built my father a rowing boat which, many years after, I set some new planks into. She looked perfectly formed but I was soon to realise that she had eight planks in one side but only seven in the other! Joe had used whatever planks he could find, built her by eye and got it just right and none of us had realised! Laying on the other side of the jetty is a 27' boat called Avocet, built for the Colman's Mustard family but then owned by my father. A boat that I sailed to Holland a number of times and cruised the East Coast, a privileged upbringing! A picture with so many memories, for me at least.

Just take it easy!

Clive has his Jolly Ritchie, suitably decorated for would-be pirates. Perhaps he should do something similar with nooky-boats!

Very few 'leg over' boats on the Broads? Really?!?! Where there is a will there is a way!! I'm told it's great in a semi inflated rubber dinghy on the cabin roof!!