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Plus since the BA like signs so much, signs could be placed along the mooring saying please wear your lifejacket whilst disembarking and boarding, storage lockers are available at the yacht station.

The Issue I always ponder when mooring up at Great Yarmouth, is the one of when you are moored up and want to go ashore and visit the town, if you wear your lifejacket while alighting (or clambering up at low tide) when going ashore, where do you put it once you are safely ashore, what is needed are a set of gym lockers by the yacht station building, where you can deposit your life jackets and take the key, then when you return to the boat, recover your lifejackets and put them back on before boarding your boat once more. now this wouldnt cost a lot on the grand scale of things, and would be a more positive safety measure, currently when going ashore, I leave the lifejacket aboard, as I dont really want to be wearing it round town. (OK Great Yarmouth is one of the few places I do wear a lifejacket, but not when just going ashore) Surely this would be a better safety measure than just employing more rangers to patrol. @BroadsAuthority, Tom, I couldnt find a suggestions page on your website, so I have tagged you here so that you can pass the above suggestion on to those it may concern.

just think, if you do buy a coaster and brng it up, remember to have a pint of beer on board, and ask to be tolled as a beer mat.

mine is a crewfit manually operated model, (150N) and was fitted with a new cylinder when I got it home. it gets tested regularly, but isnt the newest lifejacket out there. I do also carry a spare cylinder for it to be able to reset it should I need to use it.

I usually have sseveral practice sessions a year on water rail (commonly known as having a swim, when I am moored up I generally have the paddleboard in the water alongside, I have practiced getting out of the water using this, where I tuck one edge of the paddle board under the rubbing strake at water level, then get up onto the board, after which I can then alight back aboard the boat, the only time I went into the water unintentionally was when I was wearing a lifejacket, this was at candle dyke, where it was 8 foot deep in the middle, a few strokes towards the shore though and I could stand on the bottom (i dont wear an auto inflate LJ and at this point I had felt no need to inflate the one I was wearing. I got to a slipway and managed to scramble out, but the lifejacket even uninflated was more of a hinderance than a help. I do always have it within hand reach of the helm position, and always use it when mooring up at great yarmouth or reedham. Cold shock- as I learned to swim in our local outdoor river fed pool (open from march to october) I learned from an early age how to handle the cold shock. the only other times I have slipped and nearly / actually fallen overboard, were on lads week, the first I managed to catch myself and not go in, the second I somehow managed to land aboard the boat i was fending off ending up sitting on his side deck. I tend to wear light clothing all year around when boating shorts and tee shirt, these dont tend to get too water logged Water rail has good rubbing strakes for climbing to get out (yes I have practiced that too,) looping a rope between cleats also helps to start getting out and something to hang onto aboard. I hope all this practice is never needed, and I tend to be a lot more careful moving around the boat when solo. though I have never considered I might also be able to fall in from the bank.

I did a cycle ride along the river in Canterbury yesterday, and its still very high and still running very fast, a couple of spots where the path was underwater for a hundred feet or so, but only a couple of inches deep, it hadnt deterred the joggers cyclists and dog walkers one bit.

yes time to remove the engine parts from the dishwasher and put it on a clean cycle. take the parts drying out of the oven, and remove the stripped down engine from the kitchen table.

not a great start to the run up to christmas, my daughter gives me a call, she is visiting her gran (ex MIL) and says could I come over she has a tap leaking and the floors are wet. plumber cant get out until next week. goes to find tools, only to find a drip in my workshop, thats splashing everywhere, causing tools to start rusting, oh dear - bucket found and placed under new drip, known other small drip checked, bucket there is full- bucket emptied. now off to ex MIL's so when I arrive the floors in the living room and kitchen are soaked, wheres the leak I ask, its the tap under the bath (bath is under the stairs along with the kitchen sink) looks, and its quite easy to spot the spurt of water from the stem on the valve. I wind it shut- the spurt stops and tails down to a tiny drip, so a lot of the water could have been avoided by shutting off the tap. unfortunately I cant fix this one, as its the incoming stopcock. it really does need a plumber to come in, shut the water off to all 4 houses fed from that main via a stopcock somewhere outside and replace the stopcock inside. Ex MIL advised to only turn the stopcock on when she actually needs water, and to fill some containers when she does have it on to help avoid the need to turn it on too often. that spurt must have been putting out gallons per hour (she says its only been like that for 3 days) new carpets will be needed (new flooring if she was fibbing about the 3 days). At least she has a local plumber on call who will be able to look at it next week.

or that you may be wrong but you are not unusual?

A thought has struck me, we keep sayiing the water levels have risen- but the depth of the water has got less, surely this is evidence that the rivers are being allowed to silt up, because if the rivers havent silted up and the water levels are higher, then the depths should be greater now, than they were before, eg if there was 6 feet depth and the water level has risen 6" there should be 6'6" depth, instead we are seeing 5' depth, so the river bottom has come up 18" while the water rose 6". so this may be why the surveys dont show much change, because while the rivers have been silting up, the water levels have also risen.

with my parents both now into their 90's, (fortunately both are still fully in their senses, but both now suffer mobility issues,) yet my dad still insists on going shopping, it now takes both myself and my sister to shepherd him around, so I go over once a fortnight and we do all the heavy shopping (he still pops the few hundred yards to the local tesco express). he is unsteady on his legs and has to have the shopping trolley to get around the shop. mum doesnt go out any more, but can get around the house and get upstairs. so really I am quite lucky as the shopping is my only carer duties, my sister lives just around the corner so is called upon for more immediate concerns (like if one of my parents has a fall, she can pop round and help pick them up. everyone seems to be helping find them mobility aids, I recently found a 3 wheel folding stroller, and when I arrived found they had already been given one (they now have one each and dad prefers the bag on the one I got for popping to the shop when he has to get a bottle of milk. either way both the family and the royal naval association friends of his keep an eye out for them and keep them well supported.

thats why I like my 2008 v50 2.0, last of the diesels before they went to additives to control the emissions ( the same year model latter half of the year had the small tank of additive that needed topping up every 70,000 miles, mine has a DPF but thats about it, does nearly 50mpg (best I have got was 49.8mpg) probably as fast 0-60 as petrol, but will kick out some smoke if you floor it like that.

when i got my v50, they could not find any paperwork to suggest the timing belt had been changed and as it was nearly up to the mileage for a second change, for peace of mind I paid the extra to have the belt changed, in the knowledge that it would then probably see me through the time I would have the car. I dont mind spending on the repairs, even though if they come near the value of a car, as by then I know the car and have an idea what is good and what needs replacing, if I just scrap the car and get a new(er) one, then I have no idea what work has been done, and what might break a month down the line, so I could find myself forking out even more in the long run - better the devil you know so to speak. but there will come a time when I have to decide to fix or not, at that time I generally replace with a similar car and keep the old one at least for a few months for spare parts (bought one v70 to replace another and within 3 months had swapped out the power steering pump and the alternator from the old one.)

I tried to get the depth surveys for previous years to compare to the current ones but could not find them, I would be interested in looking at the various surveys and comparing them over the last 30 or 40 years to see if the depths have changed.

how long before someone decides that only 6" deep is enough for paddle boards and they dont need to dredge deeper for boats?

to be honest i think its a sandbar that moves around the system in the lower Bure, we were watching the depth sounder as we went along the river before low tide and just about half a mile past scare gap as we headed for Great Yarmouth we were in the middle of the river and the depth readings suddenly shallowed down to about 2'6", it wasnt a long stretch, maybe a few boat lengths, just about where the first posts start appearing on the river, indeed if you look on what 3 words at ///drop.warns.memo , you can see the sand bars from each side restricting the channel to about 1/3 of the river width and almost joining in the middle of the river (put the satellite view on in W3W)

you have to try and avoid the dealerships, getting my 2008 volvo through the MOT with the ABS pump woes (at 180,000 miles), cost me £800, it cost the ABS repair company whose courier lost the pump that went with my car over £600 in bills from Volvo for just recoding the part, if I had taken it to volvo they would have insisted on a new pump (£2500) plus probably another £800 to do the work. my costs did include a full service all the filters (including cabin filters) and a new coil spring.

I have an old victron here i am trying to repair, the problem is the component that has failed doesnt seem to even be available anymore, the failed charger has been replaced with its modern equivalent, and i am willing to bet looks nothing like the old one inside, even though it looks identical on the outside

the reason behind this is the vibration the wire will experience on a boat is more likely to break solid conductors than stranded.

sourcing decent electrical wiring is a nightmare at the moment, cheap imports from china and elsewhere are marked up for a size, but have been found to contain smaller conductors that they are quoted as being (half the copper means half the price) so its a buyer beware market at the moment, even reputable suppliers are being supplied with this stuff and unknowingly selling it on so its unsurprising that halfords may be selling a lower quality product.

the news report suggested it had caught on the quay heading, and with nobody around could easily have tipped and put a gunwale under.

really it makes you think that there should be two drainage systems, - one for raw sewerage and one for normal black water, ie from the sinks and baths and street culverts, that needs less intensive processing, and the priority should be given to always treating the raw sewerage waste rather than letting it bypass the processors.

i beg your pardon?

you mean like the 1953 and 1912 floods?

not every time does the work succeed, for example the new container and ferry ort at ramsgate was supposed to help the erosion, well it stopped erosion west of the harbour but a sandbar has now moved a mile from the east and sits smack in the harbour entrance, half blocking it at low tide