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JennyMorgan
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Oh my giddy aunt .........I can foresee heart attacks being reported from Stalham to Surlingham from within the establishment ...........
Sounds like a great idea to me ......not to sure about the rubber thingy though
Featherlightfin
Just take it easy!
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Clive has his Jolly Ritchie, suitably decorated for would-be pirates. Perhaps he should do something similar with nooky-boats!
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The very few leg over boats available for hire on the broads can usually be found moored at the green Horning and whilst I notice no "leg over" activity ......they do look very comfy which is a bit of a waste if you ask me ?
finno
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!!
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http://www.wherryalbion.com/events/
4th September looks interesting.
Might be interesting to meet the fleet on Breydon and follow them up to Cantley.
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Mill Pond stuff!
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I thought this was about fuel consumption, but here we go on speed......
FORGET SPEED,
whether across ground or through water.....
IMHO It is the wash that causes the bank erosion.....
Keep that to a minimum, and preserve the Broads...
If you are doing a certain speed across ground and leaving a big wash, slow down.
Simples...
no wash here
lots of wash hereMine's got two masts, does that mean I make lots of wash?
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Alan, apart from retrieving lost fenders etc. from those tedious reedbeds there is always a wealth of wildlife to be spotted, for the observant & quiet amongst us!
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Agreed, apart from good fishing, eating in good restaurants, drinking in good pubs, visiting a 'fine city' and being away from the 'kiss-me-quick' hullabaloos up North there is absolutely nothing to come South for!!
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Strangely enough I've been involved with cutting up a sailing boat recently. The keel had 'exploded', the steel punchings having rusted and expanded. Regarding disposal, nightmare! We ended up cutting it into manageable chunks in the end and disposing of it chunk by chunk but that is another story.
Clive, quite right, good dories about £600.00, new engine about £2,000.00. No logic really but still very handy on the Broads.
Re moorings though, many folk can neither afford nor want marina style moorings, Something rather more basic is all that is required, but basic moorings are at a massive premium, or so it seems. Up on the canals there does appear to be more boat moorings between posts rather than alongside floating jetties for example. I do think that the BA is going to have to get off its idealistic horse and allow a few low lying marshes to be flooded and more moorings created, with a proportion of both affordable and residential ones available.
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Yesterday was an interesting day. The actual quest was for a replacement outboard for our dory. Many phone calls later it was clear that second-hand engines are about as rare as rocking-horse droppings due to the numerous thefts last winter. Anyway, with a few recommendations from 'Polly' who had recently been on the same trail, my wife and I set off with the intention of visiting every possible location for a suitable engine. We did locate one potential outboard but at a price. We actually ended up at 'Nearest & Dearest' in Hoveton where we were well treated and we are now the proud owners of a brand new motor at about one third more than the nine year old one on offer, no contest.
Anyway, apart from a lack of s/h outboards, what we did notice was the huge number of small boats up for sale and out of the water, in August! This wasn't just at one yard, it was pretty much a general situation. A recent Broads Authority survey of tolls reported a 40 boat drop in 'small' cruisers, 40 as a percentage of tolled boats is nothing exceptional but it would be interesting to know what the % drop is in relation to small cruisers.
Is it that people have moved up from small cruisers, or that those who can 'only' afford a small boat have been priced out of the market? On the Drascombe owners website the subject has also been discussed and clearly the increase in small boats for sale is pretty general.
Was a time when Shetlands, for example, and 20/24 foot long boats were common, not now. I suspect that marinas would rather have one 36 footer than they would two 18 footers. My feelings is that the year on year toll increases for small boats are out of proportion to their value for one thing. Thankfully I have my own mooring but I suspect that the costs of moorings is similarly prohibitive to those who can only afford small boats. Am i right in suggesting that the Broads is increasingly less inclusive? It certainly appears that way.
Probably two thirds of the mooring buoys on Oulton Broad are vacant this year, was a time when there was a waiting list.
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http://www.edp24.co.uk/what-s-on/50_memorable_ways_to_make_the_most_of_the_norfolk_broads_1_3717903
Tut, tut, no mention of The Superior Suffolk Broads!
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I understand, from an authoritative source, that fixed notice penalties are NOT just around the corner. Apparently it's accepted that it would destroy the generally good relationship between the Rangers and the Rhond Dwellers. In this instance I tend to believe the horse's mouth on this one.
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So after I've spent all day designing and building a mast and sales for Andorra, I come back and you tell me there will only be a 20 mph wind. what a waste!
Dave
Maybe your 'sales' will have 70% off!
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The New Cut & Oulton Dyke are both canals, however I don't think that Ben Fogle was sailing there!
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I agree entirely with Dave on this one. I grew up at a time when lifejackets were leftovers, surplus from the D-day Landings, Dreadful things! Arthur Ransom's Swallows & Amazons, like Ratty & Mole in Wind in the Willows, were taught that safety was about learning the right skills rather than buying the approved safety equipment, As children we were given the freedom to roam but with that came a solid grounding in personal responsibility. Hard to shake that off at my age!
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Polly!!!!!!
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Confusion is quite understandable! Both Pauline & I are friendly folk, we both sail Press boats, both have a full head of 'silver' hair and both do great 'full English'. Just that Pauline is a great deal prettier!
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My father, a volunteer in the Royal Observer Corps in WWII, on three occasions was involved in telling the yanks when NOT to do it, as they were want to do, and still do. Once on a convoy, once in a Flying Fortress & once on a US landing ship at Normandy. Apparently, in the Flying Fortress, when flying through a cloud the Captain became jumpy and for no other reason ordered everything he had to fire on a particular bearing!
Coincidently dad never came under direct fire when with the Yanks but he did twice when on leave. Once at Horning Ferry when that was bombed and also at Stracey Arms when the Mill was strafed. If you look carefully at the mill you can still see bullet scars on the brickwork..
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Was a time when Oulton Broad was called 'Little England', heaven only knows why!
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and I bet the reply would be...
"Get lost ****head"
In that case I would have retorted in a suitable manner! But I would have asked first.
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Back in that unmentionable time my Uncle, then a local man, painted his squadron's Spitfires pink! Perhaps the idea was that enemy gunners would laugh so much that they'd forget to press their triggers. On the other hand, being local, he was actually quite sharp! At altitude, apparently, pink Spitfires were hard to see.
no wash here
lots of wash here
Leo A. Richardson, Oulton Broad.
in The Historic Broads
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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.