ChrisB

As I have given up boat ownership and will not be attending Southampton again I am prepared to share my Southampton Boat Show Secret Formula that I have used more times than I care to remember and makes for a relaxed experience. 1 .Book accommodation at The Master Builder, Bucklers Hard (excellent cuisine in wonderful surroundings) 2. Drive car to Hythe and park in large car park near Waitrose. Always half empty and Cheap. 3. Walk through town to pier. Buy Boat Show tickets and ferry return ticket at entrance to pier. Walk or catch little train to ferry. 4. Enjoy trip up Southampton water and see big boats. 5. Get off ferry and cross road to show. If the nearest entrance is exibitors only (often is) walk up to security with your ticket in you hand and ask where the public entrance is. 9 out of 10 he will wave you through. 6. When you have had enough retrace steps back to Master Builder. If weather good have a pre-dinner drink outside overlooking the moorings on the beautiful Beaulieu River. Totally stress free boat show.

Difficult on Barton, not withstanding it is owned by NWT but I know exactly where you are coming from Peter. I can envisage seasonal pontoons like used at the Southampton Boat Show at places like Ranworth but also as revenue generation at places like Salhouse, the private parts of Ranworth, to increase seasonal capacity at certain boatyards and indeed by the riparian owners on wide rivers. Perhaps this would be the easy option to the 24 hour mooring problem in high season:- Privatisation! At sea unless you swing to your own hook, you pay. With greater demand comes less supply, maybe the free mooring will become a distant memory.

With the huge developments planned for this part of East Anglia thousands more people will move into the area. A proportion of those will aspire to boat ownership and The Broads will come under pressure to supply more permanent and temporary moorings. The Northern Rivers especially the Upper Ant are near capacity which makes the Southern Rivers and Dykes attractive for expansion. What is the answer? Cap the numbers of both private and hire boats? Is that legal in tidal waters? It can be done on safety grounds, Yarmouth harbour IOW. Is regularly closed in high season. Pagham RSPB reserve is tidal but boating is all but banned and licences die with their holder. How do you protect these Internationally important sites from such pressures and increased pollution? Have No-Go areas or allow only passage through the channels in places like Barton. Playing The Devils Advocate here:- there is a designation that can protect the naturally beautiful and scientifically importand areas it is called " A National Park" and it has legislation that it can use to do so. I have noted the changes creeping in to North Norfolk and Broadland in the last five years or so, it is getting busier largely due to the road building plans. Frankly I would not be surprised if the Wroxham bypass and new river crossing does not get resurrected at some point. I feel there is a very great danger of the area losing what people come here for, be that as visitors, or for life.

Many thanks. That is Tingdene, is it not.

Could someone please enlighten us. 40 more moorings? Where? Is it an extension of Tingdene?

I can now open it but can't download the site plan as it is trying to download the whole document file in one hit.

It appears to have been removed from public viewing.

Maintenance...especially true if you are blessed with either outdrives or a saildrive. Ignore the somewhat costly maintenance at your peril.

About 30 years ago I was crew in a Drascombe which I think was a Longboat in horrendous short square waves in Loch Ness under fore and mizzen, no main and a Yamaha sail drive outboat of around 9hp. We motorsailed through it with the power of a yacht twice the size, no problem except it was a bit wet. The lines of the hull like a coble of Viking origins can ride exception wave patterns. Fantastic boats.

I must keep my resolve...No More Boat Ownership, just a bit of charter. Tempting! When I looked at a coaster last January, new from either manufacturer (Honnor have eventually sold and are in Swanage. Think the Cape Cutter might have been spun off) Fully kitted out with brakeback trailer and 8hp powerthrust Honda, you were looking at circa £30K. At 29 or 39 even 49 but at an arthritic 69?

Greece to UK UK to Australia And Webb Chiles virtually a circumnavigation What a record!

Just love the Coaster. But last time I priced one from Honor Marine they had become, well not cheap, if I were younger well maybe.

Just find the time. Believe me it will reward you for the rest of your life.

In the present climate, where the the film industry, armed services, fire service and parliament have all come under scrutiny any form of risque activity, however slight must be not allowed to take hold. Once the stronghold of us men, all our emergency services now rely very much on mixed crews and in ops are very more effective for it. Just as when I started in heavy engineering a couple of pints at lunchtime was OK and much later in my career the social club bar was open at lunchtime until the early 90's at Courtaulds International Paint plant at Silvertown things change. Any £200m organisation needs good, strong leadership with vision, but I, also find that the wage bill is a bit heavy and concentrated on too few for a public donation financed organisation. I shall be making the journey to attend the AGM this year as entitled as a Govenor.

It rained this morning. When it stopped I drove to East Runton and walked to Cromer along the beach, passed the Lifeboat Museum and up the cliffs to the lighthouse. I returned though the town where the smells from the flame grill of the Red Lion, followed by the Fish and Chips at No1 were close to unbearable. The awful weather of Feb/March saw me not so active and a few pounds have gone on but we are in my favourite produce season so proud of my resolve and my lunch on my terrace when I got home.

Photo four is Whimpwell Street looking towards The Street. The house with the car outside is still there.

If my assumptions are wrong above and the bungalows were on the seaward side of the lighthouse and not the village side their site would have been taken by the sea. As late as the 1990s it was possible to drive along Doggetts lane from Cart Gap all the way to the village. All the houses to the rear of the lighthouse in this 1990 photograph are gone. One reason why the beach between Cart Gap and Happisburgh is so good for finding "Sea Glass" the area of later development at the bottom of the picture is where I think your bungalows were sited.

Looking at the photo, my guess is the bungalows are in the area where Lighthouse lane, Whimpwell Street and Lantern Lane meet. I say this due to the aspect and angle of the Light Keepers cottages either side of the lighthouse, also the bungalows appear on lower ground than the lighthouse.

Haisbro is an acceptable spelling and the village is often refered to as such. It comes from the infamous sand bank approx 9nm off Happisburgh. I believe that the last Haisbro lightship was taken off station permanently in May 88.

When I was young, that is still living at home we lived in a road in Chorleywood that had to be closed for 24 hours once a year to maintain it's private status. I think the Trafford Estates also require NBYC to close Wroxham Broad once a year for a similar reason.

SOLD

Please see my post as this post reminded me I took my two off the boat when I sold.

Forgot that I had these. One by Ring other by PV logic. Cigar lighter plug and croc clip. Always kept my 2 x 110Ahr full when away. £10 for both.

Wish I was 37 But knew what I know now at 69.

I have no real knowledge of the Wherry trade but do know that the operators of alot of Thames Sailing barges had their own quays and jetties in the creeks of Essex for the loading of such items as hay and bricks. The return trade often being manure for the fields. I wonder if some of the Broadland Dykes had private staithes in a similar manner?