ChrisB

Maybe vertical lift keels are the way forwards!

Yes, hard to believe that the EDP, year after year, mopped up all the awards for a regional newspaper. But then the standards of many of the nationals can leave alot to be desired these days.

Peter, Why do you put yourself through so much anguish? Please, do as I did a number of years ago: Don't buy their poorly researched, inaccurate, badly written rag, keep off their web site and you will be a happier fellow. Furthermore if more did so their demise might be quickened and the whole of East Anglia would be a richer place without Archant.

I remember a boom snapping at St Bennets in 2011. The crew were very lucky as the kevlar sail split and the tail end was thrashing about in a most dangerous fashion.

I use the stall at Mudesley, does really good Skate in season. Crab and lobster from Overstrand. And Davies when in Cromer. Of supermarket counters it is Morrisons superior imho than Waitrose in North Walsham.

But it does really say something about the prestige of the 3RR and the quality of competition that so many A Raters make their annual pilgrimage to Horning, a trail sail of 400 miles for just one great race!

I would wager you would still love a real wild Atlantic Salmon caught on line or netted by a licenced fisherman. You just can not compare it with the farmed stuff. Farmed and wild is not so noticable when smoked but there used to be an old saying around Billingsgate (when it was in Upper Thames Street not the Isle of Dogs) to the effect of: " the best smoked salmon is caught in a Scottish River by an Englishman on fly, but smoked by a Jewish gentleman in the East End" and as an ex trader I agree completely. By the way the wild stuff of the Pacific, Sockeye etc is rubbish alongside North Atlantic.

Tin hats time!

Something so many places have in common Ray. If you serve up a really good piece of fish why add a bucket of chips?

Oops wrong glasses those are punts or sumut else!

But none have that Thames A-Rater panache. I lived near for 22 years Bourne End home of the U.T.S.C. second club to their spiritual home Surbiton. Even with three "heavies" up they are a real handful in anything north of moderate. To see one go out of control is one of lifes unforgetables.

I now use my Sony Z3 PHONE 21mp and waterproof and recently bought a Nikon S33 coolpix. Dedicated video button, waterproof to 33ft shockproof from 5ft. Perfect on the boat or in the field for snaps. I was going to get a bright blue or yellow one about £70 but got it £15 cheaper by taking pink.

Not forgetting the effects you can achieve even with others photos. My appologies Strow.

When I pass in school holidays it is usually about 5.30am or 7.30pm.

If a boat got through Yarmouth !

http://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/i_am_shocked_they_chose_sea_palling_details_emerge_of_remarkable_bid_to_smuggle_migrants_to_a_norfolk_beach_1_4554756

Having been woken at 4am due to a less than one second power cut. I can report the dreich continues on the North Coast this morning. These one second power cuts are a pest when they happen, never last for more than a moment as we are on the same supply as Bacton Gas Terminal which now utilises electric pumps.

We are on the NE corner. If I look east there is sea, if I look north there is sea. We are 40 metres above sea level and just under a mile inland. And we have the mother and father of a "Haar" rolling in, not good if on passage anywhere twix Yarmouth ans Wells. It is a bad corner in this weather because if you stay in too close there are lines of pots everywhere and further out you risk an inshore tanker keeping landside of Sheringham Shoal. And it is getting thicker!

PS. Nice boat.

You must feel you are in a hanger compared with a Prelude. Many years ago when our two boys were very young we moved from our self built Seawych to a Centaur. We used to get lost in it.

A picture of Oby would be good!

One must remember that modern France (and that the French are very proud of their history) was born of direct action. Direct action that makes our years of Cromwell and civil war look like a bit of a picnic in he park. I was in France in 68, and yes revolution is in their very being.

Do they still use "Le Pont" ? If a national holiday fell say on a Sunday you did not get Monday off in lieu, instead if a holiday fell on a Thursday you did'nt do Friday or if a Tuesday you don't bother with Monday.

Nothing like the melody of a bu*%ered BMC or a kn×ckered Nanni drifting across Oulton as dawn breaks. Though a vibrating Vetus or bucking Bukh can also be pleasant.

Robin, I suspect that you have not used the West system retrospectively. It is a bit of an "art" when using newly worked wood, application to used wood that has been open to any number of contaminants both natural and chemical is fraught with problems.