ChrisB

I must disagree with regards to the 100E Anglia. I had one in my early teens to drive around the farm and it was side valve. My mother had a 105E the one with the funny back window it was overhead valve. Looking back I can't believe the places I got to in my 100E with it's 3 speed gearbox with no syncro on 1st. Used to rabbit on the stubble at night with it. The Mk1 Cortina had a 1.2 Kent engine which was also fitted to Anglia 1200 supers.

I was refering to "Sovereign Immunity" which in it's simplest form means you cannot take a Government Dept. To court unless it agrees you can" Lets see what a QC says.

If you trim off the fat, you are actually talking about two Government Departments. The Broads Authority (Dept for Environment etc.) And Network Rail (Department for Transport) Network rail is in public ownership it was the DoT's response to the mess of Railtrack. Difficult.

Looks a very nice buy for someone.

But there is not a balance when it comes to personal attacks on the CEO. I do not want to make a big thing out of it but there is a degree of double standards I feel.

If that is policy, then the same courtesy should be applied to Dr J Packman and The Broads Authority. One can disagree but very distasteful comments appear not moderated many aimed at the gentleman in person. Many falling into that horrible Americanism "Fake News" Just the other day on this forum he was accused of trying to get rid of all boats.

I bet the crew have some Marigolds somewhere, borrow them.

Is that what they are, gaps in the planking. I thought they were scuppers.

A good downpour of cold rain is what is needed but non on the horizon yet. Some years back we crossed Barton early morning and it was like going through thick pea soup, it stiffled our bow wave and wash. The Met keep putting up showers but they don't materialise. A real thunderstorm with hail is what the rivers need.

Grass! Mine is all strawcolour and has given up. Picture from a week ago it is worse now.

I think it is a real shame that this forum is becoming so confrontational. He has come here on holiday and makes a simple statement about not wanting to be hit and the world and his wife are down his throat. My boat was on The Broads for 10 years and I was equally careful. In that time I was never hit by a private boat but three times by hire vessels. I am not saying everyone but I am afraid there is an element of less pride when something is hired or rented. As I said I have noted a more agressive attitude creeping into this forum and it is a pity.

I also have a fibreglass fly rod from the 60s but mine is Canadian. Were they all that dull orange? They seemed to be back then. Mine is a 1965 vintage so 53 years old and I still use it.

Absolutely correct Peter. In the UK many of the early boats were layed up using a Scott Bader product that was a Crystic Polyester Resin which I have been told was a way round DuPonts patent. Awful stuff, never really had any useful life in it.

It is just the weather as Vaughan says for Blue Green Algae. Remember it is highly toxic to dogs. It goes without saying humans stay out and was hands after lifting mud weights. For anyone who is new it looks like this colour on top of the water and can be streaked as though it was oil.

I have just looked up the NMM. Cornwall page. They say that Tods Brochure was over-optimistic. I say that The Advertising Standards Legislation was a good thing. I quote:- "Stronger than steel", "will not absorb water", and that damage could be "easily repaired without special skill or tools".

W.J Tod of Weymouth produced the first sailing dinghy in the UK. The National Maritime Museum in Cornwall have one from 1951. Please see my other post re Halmatic. This is the Tod boat9

It seems like the next phase, in sail boats anyway is already underway. This is where a chassis is fabricated in stainless steel and encapsulated in either GRP or composite if not cost sensitive. Chain plates, wnches, engine, in fact all the workings are bolted direct to the chassis so the hull and superstructure are non structural and are there to keep the water out allowing a very light layup.

I learnt to sail at Itchenor sailing school and the bottoms/soles of most of their boats were semi-transparent. I had forgotten that, it was quite common in early mid 60s, thanks Peter.

GRP actually predates this by ten years Tods produced a 12' dinghy in 1951 the next year a cooperation by Uffa Fox and Patrick de Laszlo ( founder of Halmatic) produced a Flying 20. In 1954 Halmatic produced the 48' TSMY Perpetua. Perpetua was produced at Halmatic's expense to prove to the Admiralty that GRP was able to withstand the torque and vibration of diesel engines. Early GRP boats were seriously over-engineered with very heavy layup. Various oil crisis and the high degree of cost control applied by todays mass producers in the USA, Poland, France, Spain and Germany lead me to think the their lifespan will be considerably shorter than those produced in the late 60s early 70s when we also had big producers like Westerly, who produced 2500+ Centaur most of which are still sailing.

I think it was more attractive when you owned it.

Cant think of any others with a gallery encircling so I say Berney as well. Having said that not seen it for years.

It aint horses or weight with displacement it is waterline length that counts. Your Hull Speed is 1.34 × square root of LWL = SPEED IN KNOTS. All imperial so waterline in feet. Look how Trixie is digging in BA would not do so until a much higher speed

Going back a number of years my wife and I had an early spring holiday In Lanzarote. We decided to go back in October so I never changed back any money. Unfortunately business got in the way and we did not go back. Years later when we were moving from Bucks to Norfolk I found a wallet with £250 in worthless pesetas. What you have never missed etc.

I have heard that these are not too healthy an option for duck and geese. In fact I have seen them prove fatal on the saltmarsh.

Thanks Paul, Hit the news button and you will get the whole story.