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    Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing

    in Fishing on The Broads

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    1 minute ago, PeteBelham said:

    It's such a shame the BA dont do more to keep this navigation open. They decide that the best time to cut the weed is when it grows the fastest when cut and they don't cut it deep enough in my opinion as it grows back thicker and quicker. I'll wait to see the result of the dredging between the ferry and Somerton. 2m depth should be achieved. 

    I was advised by Whispering Reeds to be very careful. These days my days on the river are very precious not to be spoilt by the negligence of others. So, i turned back. Horsey did not dissapoint and my journey across Hickling and back was memorable.

    Broad Mooring Charge?

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    The term sling your hook is polite way of telling someone to go away. This term has a nautical origin. Hook was a name given to the ship's anchor, and the sling was the cradle that housed the anchor. Therefore, to sling your hook meant to lift anchor, stow it and sail away.

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    Broad Mooring Charge?

    in Broads Chat

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    My old grandfather, (all grandfather's are old.........I'm a grandfather) told me that there is an ancient statute bound in the history of time, in days of old when boatmen were bold, you were allowed to anchor in tidal water for one full turn of the tide. Anywhere. Free of charge. Makes sense dunt it if you were under sail and the wind dropped. This statute was created before people even knew about engines. It applied to all craft,  why would anybody change it ?

    Even today some of the iconic Hunter craft do not have engines, just a quant. 

    No wind, after sunset, a mist descending, a murky night ahead, no lights quanting to a refuge, a safe mooring for protection against marauding private night cruisers.

    I wud tell im to sling his ook i wunt sling mine, wus he a goin to do about it?

    Old Wussername 

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    Interim Accident Report

    in Broads Chat

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    14 minutes ago, rightsaidfred said:

    Not give up  but accept reality, by all means take all reasonable steps to improve things both with training and design but there comes a point when individuals have to step up and take responsibility for their own actions, you can lead a horse to water you can't make it drink, likewise you can educate people all you like you can't make them learn or stop and think, many people only learn by mistakes sometimes to late.

    Fred

    I agree Fred. Learning by mistake however is not the answer. Why are these mistakes occurring. It is not my intention to provoke a conflict of opinion, far from it. I just wish to see or realise a satisfactory conclusion to a difficult and distressing period.

    This forum, its members, its experience, understanding, knowledge, constructive and genuine conflict of opinion will surely be recognised by those who lack these attributes.

    Interim Accident Report

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    The hire industry does not need legislation. It needs a recognition of the demands it fails to recognise. No amount of videos will resolve the issue.

     Before anything else there needs to be an awareness of the vulnerability of the hirer. That has never been considered.

    1 Commonsense 

    2 Discipline 

    3 Communication 

    4 Consideration. 

    Once those bench marks have been identified one can then move on to the finer points of handling a boat.

    But not until.

    Andrew

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    Flood Alert On The Yare From Thorpe St Andrew To Breydon Water

    in Broads Authority Notices

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    The tide is a most amazing phenomenon. It never seems to conform to predictions. I have often been at Reedham at high tide and it is not. Hammering through.

    On one occasion the tide overlapped the Quay. The water was half way up the mooring posts. And continuing. You could not see the edge of the mooring. Hire craft attempting to moor were in a muddle.  The Broads Authority Quay  Attendant was turning boats away. 

    It was then that the most amazing happening occurred. A flood tide barrelling up the Yare and the water level recided dramatically revealing a mud strewn Quay heading. 

    How deep was the flood? Where was the ebb  in relationship to the flood. 

    A tide defies human logic or definition. 

    When you come to understand that you may consider yourself a boatman.

    I wish I was a boatman.

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    Which Pub?

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    Many young men from norfolk worked on the oil rigs in those days. I may be wrong but I thought that Norman Chalk was involved with offering a catering service to the rigs.

    Which Pub?

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    I may be going off piste a bit, but I can hardly remember meals of the 60's or 70's. I was usually full of Red Barrel ( a lovely brew).Prawns in the basket for me old mawther, a Cherry B or a Baby Champ and  Surf and Turf for me. As a special treat a bottle of the Franz Rey Liebfraumilch or a Niestiener Gutas Domtal to really impress.

    But the Sunday lunch time tonsil rinse in Norfolk was magical. In Thorpe St Andrew the families and friends gathered, The Red Lion, The River Gardens, The Kings Head, The Buck. Before you was a feast. Nuts, Pineapple, Cheese, Olives, Biscuits, Onions, An enormous selection of thirst enhancers. They would indulge until 2 pm. Then we would stagger home for Sunday Lunch. Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pud. 

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    Sandersons In Reedham

    in Hire Boat Discussion

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Coryton said:

    I had a similar experience, when the spring in the filler cap for the water cooling went sproing one morning and vanished into the bilges. We were near Reedham and our boatyard told us to pop in to Sandersons for a new one. Or rather a quite old one.

    The inside of the shed was quite impressive and the whole thing was one of the more memorable moments of the holiday.

    I have taken, with permission, some photographs of the interior of the boat shed. For me it was very interesting reminding me of some of the boat sheds of my childhood. It would however justify a more professional photographer than I.

    The exterior of the shed itself i find iconic, reminiscent of so many similar sheds to be found throughout the broads many years ago. All of which have sadly disappeared, to be replaced by holiday homes.

    It seems as if the shed was to remain, but now it seems under new ownership and I am confused as to what the future may hold. Properties will no doubt be built on the site beside the shed, if it remains. The plans submitted several months ago may alter slightly. They always seem to change at the last minute.

    Andrew

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