ChrisB

I know that area very well. I walk at East Ruston and often take the footpath over South Fen (but not after the weather of recent times) The development is really out of the way and can do no harm what so ever IMHO. Many Norfolk villages in that area have no main drainage including where I live and the run off eventually ends up in that waterway. It is only in the last three years that East Ruston has been on pumped drainage. So the impact of a few holiday pods is really insignificant.

I dunow, some of the fishermen I see must have an artic to carry the gear they have. Don't really understand it being a fly man. I can carry everthing in my fishing vest. Can't get my head round this numerous rod, tent, box as big as a garden shed business.

I have used a 16lb Bruce Anchor on The Broads they hold extremely well but a huge amout of mud comes up with them and going along with it just below the surface does not clean it like a mud weight. Also difficult to stow on a small boat.

No, I had them made by a sign company in Stalham it was just white plastic with the BA signs stuck on. The company was owned by some people associated with The Dog at Ludham Bridge but alas it is now a car wash.

Had mine the same for ten years.

In the days before digital......more than once when taking the cheaper option of Kodak some lab has reversed my pictures.

I like RS components, not the cheapest but always in stock, delivered next day. Screwfix are good as well, order online and pick same day at Cromer.

I had sight tubes with the push buttons on my two 28 second kerosene tanks when I lived in The Chilterns. Very easy to forget to push the button thinking all is OK only to remember, the oil flies down the tubes and you find you are nearly empty with the mercury reading -4C and a foot of snow stopping any tanker getting up to you. You soon learn though. Lesson learned the sight tubes are only accurate for a few minutes after you push the button.

I have a number of other items but will put them up in the spring when I have had a chance to "Test" them like my 2009 waveline round stern inflatable. It only has been used four times but I need to be certain that the rodents have not had a nibble!!!

10 KG MUDWEIGHT ALSO SOLD.

THE 15KG MUDWEIGHT IS NOW SOLD

RHOND ANCHORS ARE NOW SOLD ALSO.

What awful news, I was always quite in love with Alice Tinker. Saw her quite a bit as it was filmed below my old house in the Buckinghamshire Chilterns at Turville. RIP. ALICE

JUST THE MUD WEIGHTS AND RHOND ANCHORS LEFT

PLASTIMO COMPASS IS ALSO SOLD. + Red Ensign.

RNLI FLAGS AND ANCHOR LIGHT ARE NOW SOLD.

ALL DOCKLINES AND ORIGO HEATPAL ARE NOW SOLD.

HORN AND GRAPNEL ARE SOLD

As members will know I have decided to give up boat ownership and have the following for disposal. I will be making a donation to the forum and the rest of the money will be split between my two main charities the RNLI and Cancer Research. No1 RNLI flag and Burgee plus 25mm pulpit mount flag staff all brand new £10 No2 15kg mud weight with s/s shackles and swivels and 70mm Barton block with 15m 12mm braid £25. No3 10kg mud weight s/s shackle and swivel to standard mud weight rope £15 No4 2.5kg folding grapnel, galvanised shackle and swivel on standard mud weight rope. I have shackled this to the mud weight eye and not dragged in gusts of 30mph plus £10 No5 2 galvanised rhond anchors £5 No6 4 new 6m x 12mm braid dock lines, black 3 still packed £15 No7 2 new 10m x 12mm braid dock lines, white £10 No8 Origo Heatpal, as new still in box with instructions plus 3 1 litre Trangia fuel bottles which are full. I have approx 10 litres of meths which I will throw in £60 No9 Ecoblast air horn and pump plus mouth horn £5. No10 Plastimo 100 compass with two mounts. I bought this for a trip that I said I would navigate on a Moody 36 but it got too late in the year for the Western Isles. As new with protective pouch. Can be mounted at any angle, even above your bunk. £35 No11 Low drain automatic anchor light (12v lighter socket) in original pack £10 No12 1 yard Red Ensign, quality sewn flag, not printed £10. Goods available for collection near Mundesley which is approx 9 miles from Stalham or can meet up somewhere on Northern Broads.

In my twenties I did a number of bluewater passages in small sailboats either single handed or short handed. Even though I was a Yachtmaster (Ocean) and the class of boat (Nordic Folkboat) had a number of circumnavigations to it's credit we never secured insurance whilst passage making.

And garage.

Away from the river as Patio Magic, Wet and Forget etc are powerful biocides and are therefore Marine Polutants.

Acle Taxis 01493.752223.

In the past as a regular car traveller, to France, by car on business I would buy 100% pure Alcol d'Nature this I would use in my Origo cooker for food preparation and in my Origo Heatpal for warmth. Very simple and effective. No smell like the blue stuff you get in the UK. Perfect on a small sailng boat.

The general concenus seems to be if they are from a UK bone fide company acting as agent and are CE certified with sealed combustion only able to exhaust outside they should be OK. But not direct from Russia via Ebay.