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ChrisB
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Most had moved on yesterday afternoon.
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Being brought up in the Thames Valley everyone once knew that all our security printing was done at Harrisons in High Wycombe:-
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And in 2 weeks you can take all the family to:-
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St Katharine's Classic Boat Show:-
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And it would appear Sir Winston Churchill.
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I believe the gun carriage was last used in 1979 for the funeral of Lord Mountbatten.
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The status of the bridge is,:- in addition to being a Listed Building, it is a Scheduled Monument.
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This newspapers this morning:-
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1 minute ago, Hylander said:
What are GOBA moorings please for the uninitiated.
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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The end should read Môn
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11 hours ago, YnysMon said:
When I’m trying to insert a bit of welsh (we have ‘hats’ too) I usually resort to typing up something in Word first, using the symbols option and then copying and pasting. There might be an easier way, but I don't know how without changing you whole language selection.
Actually, my forum name is just wrong. The ‘Mon’ bit should have a hat over the O which lengthens the sound of the vowel.
Hold the letter down on your virtual keyboard to get and you will get a chice inc. The Circumflex ôòòòõ
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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.
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But. Don't be tempted to to fit domestic to a sailing boat especially if seagoing as they can't handle the heeling and pitching, often needing a down period of many hours in the calm of a marina before working again.
I would also expect that marine fridges are manufactured from materials more suitable for a salty environment.
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I was taught that "Air" as in what we breathe is 21% Oxygen 78% Nitrogen and 1% others.
It is the Nitrogen that causes decompression sickness, as it comes out of solution in the blood if you come up too quickly.
Some very small percentage changes can effect the body adversely, not only in what we breathe but also hydration, and certain minerals.
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That style of boat is very popular on the waterways of Holland. Interboat and Corsiva build very similar.
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If they researched how often the sewage treatment works between Coltishall and Wroxham discharged untreated and the one just down stream of How Hill they may not be so keen on this wild swimming lark.
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We had one that was bought by my parents for our two. Exactly that colour. Mushroom and Navy. However we had a metal basket under, just above the axles for shopping. They are 47 & 44 now.
It came from a huge pram, cot and highchair store in The Uxbridge Road, Ealing but I can't however I try remember their name.
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She did.
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Onedrive has spit out a "ON THIS DAY" from eight years ago. I remember watching these two through the kitchen window.
Mrs Pheasant robbing the bird table and the Sparrow Hawk thinking " that would keep us going for a while"
Quality is not too good as taken standing back in the kitchen through double glazing.
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My intention when we moved to Norfolk fifteen years ago, a move driven by Judith not wishing go "off-shore" in our 50s, was to buy a traditional Broads cruiser. However having hired, river sailing was not really for me.
I will say however that the skill of some Broads sailors is exceptional with regards to their tactics and reading of wind shifts etc. They could certainly show a clear transom to the "Inshore, round the cans" Sunday morning crews at clubs along the South Coast.
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On 22/08/2022 at 13:28, BrundallNavy said:
Making passage is the best bit of sailing, any one can zoom up and down a broad but reading the wind and planning which side of the river would give the best advantage is the best bit. I have sailed since I started secondary school first on dinghy’s on Hickling broad then with Hunters yard first year as a mate then four years as skipper of Wood Anemone. Then a selection of dinghies from Lasers to fireballs to a Contender and became nation champion in the Lightning 368 class, windsurfing coming 11th in the 1987 th world championships. Sailing the med in our own boat left in Corfu and of course sailing Perfect Lady 9 until we got into mobo’s
We still have a halfdecker as once a sailer it never really leaves you.
Give it a go you might even enjoy it
I went Laser, Merlin, Contender. We must compare scars sometime. Dinghy Sailing and rugby has made me what I am today.......Totally Crocked!
Then Coastal and some Blue Water.
Looking back, having swallowed the anchor. My late wife loved the ten years onThe Broads and various inland cruises. It never gave me that frisson of putting to sea. The exception being The Shannon Erne.
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My guess is the reverse. The way on-land glaciers are melting adding to rising sea levels and the sinking of SE of the UK will add more saline and create a largely estuarine environment.
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Twin Screw From A Single Engine
in Broads Chat
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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,