ChrisB

BBC Norfolk.

Inland Cruising:- The Shannon Erne Waterway, North to South, Belleek to Killaloe on-board something Dutch and Steel. Preferably with radiator heating! And a heated drying locker!

In the UK. The West Coast of Scotland aboard a classic Nicholson 38.

From Venice, down the east coast of the Adriatic to the Greek Islands onboard a new Beneteau Oceanis 54

I did of course mean Sedan Style.....age? Connection to English to American car description? Worrying, as it is getting worse!

One of my favourite inland boats, in this, the saloon style. I borrowed one on the RGO. Great accommodation, proper forward island bed. Very safe rear well. Could be a bit high for boarding for the less agile. I think it could make someone a really nice boat.

Not at all sure about a prop turning with an unmanned helm for the mooring. Leaving OK, if you should slip, boat leaves without you. Even at tick over props take no prisoners.

Salt or fresh makes no difference to Otters, prior to living in Norfolk all the Otters I had ever seen were coastal in Devon and the Western Isles.

It was the Autumnal Equinox last Friday so some of the years highest of tides are only to be expected. With river fresh water levels low and still warm the denser saline, colder water will travel further up stream below the fresh. With rising sea levels, I think we are seeing an environmental adjustment to what is after all an Estuarine Environment that is tidal for a long up stream. It is not just The Broadland Rivers, I am told salinity is rising in the freshwater pools along the coast road around Cley and Salthouse.

From the BA's Hydrographic Survey, I am struggling to find this " Hump " can anyone identify it?

The beauty, apart from safety, that is, of twin prop for me is one ahead and one astern, can it do that? My father's Fairey Huntsman going back to the 60s could spin in her own length and leave a crowded Poole Quay as if she had modern thrusters,

Most had moved on yesterday afternoon.

Being brought up in the Thames Valley everyone once knew that all our security printing was done at Harrisons in High Wycombe:-

And in 2 weeks you can take all the family to:-

St Katharine's Classic Boat Show:-

And it would appear Sir Winston Churchill.

I believe the gun carriage was last used in 1979 for the funeral of Lord Mountbatten.

The status of the bridge is,:- in addition to being a Listed Building, it is a Scheduled Monument.

This newspapers this morning:-

Great Ouse Boating Association. They negotiate leases with landowners for use by their members. They are mostly of the "Wild" type many in beautiful places, like right in Wicken Fen, our favourite. It is a pity that the NSBA could not be pro-active and do similar.

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I really like the top end with the tributaries and the Lodes. One Sunday morning in early October 2004, Judith and I went from Ely to Brandon and only saw 2 other boats that were underway. I always enjoyed The RGO more than The Broads. My late wife Judith was the other way.