grendel

yes MM

we will be on the water and heading south on sunday, more a cruise in company than the normal lads week, 2 boats, 2 crews of 6, no interaction between crews, so no inter boat darts matches, and our normal meal out booked for two socially distanced tables, still we work with what we can do. if we see you we will give you a wave. we will probably be the two boats cruising along 2m apart, i have my laser range finder to ensure compliance.

mooring with two is fairly easy, one person on the helm, one on the ropes. I generally manage quite well enough when going solo, where I have to do all the work, helm and ropes. its easier if you prepare your ropes before hand, eg lay the bow and stern rope along to the helm position on a centre cockpit boat and step off with both ropes in hand, as long as you get one tied off you can sort out the other when you have time - even if its stuck straight out into the river, with one end secured you have time to sort yourself out. if the rope isnt long enough tie two ropes together. accept help on stern moorings, going between two other boats once you have the stern lined up you can pass a rope to those on that boat and they will walk you in. by the end of the week you will be wondering what all the fuss was about and be helping other new people. if you want to practice mooring etc find yourself a nice empty bit of broad or mooring and just have a practice, remember slow is good.

i dont really know, but i have linked it on the bridge height page under handy information.

I am wondering if this is one of Davids works in progress, if so, thank you David

the only consolation is that it is coming at the end of the season, though i imagine they were trying to wait until winter to do the maintenance, but the recent conditions have made things worse

That looks to be a good resource.

aquafibre 38

there are two types, the permenant adhesive and the static cling type, the static ones are easy to remove, so they can be used on a hire boat, the others can be used on a private boat, but are not easily removable, so it depends which type you got. and the most important thing to remember, is to do things slowly, its far better to just creep in to a mooring than come in at full speed. much better to have a safe mooring on the third attempt than come in too fast, you need forward power to get steerage, so best line up and use just a touch of reverse .to get you heading into a stern mooring, or better still if anyone volunteers to walk you in on the ropes, thats a great way to come in to a tight mooring space.

it might be an idea to measure the clearances from the concrete cills either side from the top, with a known measure for those, if the water was up to those you would know the clearance, and if it was say 3" below those you could calculate the distance by adding 3", if the water had overtopped the cills, you would know it was less than the fixed distance, all we need now is a volunteer locally to measure them, one measurement at each corner would give you the low point.

marthams boats usually have 3 big batteries for leisure, these run the fridge and the lights and shower pump. i bave never had a problem with the fridge.

The usual procedure is to have a look at the list of members and filter by number of posts, i do this every 3 or 4 months (or when i remember) and make a list of members due for upgrade, then i post the list to the rest of the moderators and ask if they believe the member has posted enough sensible posts, if we agree they have i will update the membership, just having the requisite number of posts is not the only qualifier, we like members to have been here a few months too so we can get to know them.

i had one in my van, wasnt holding charge very well, charged it with a battery charger then several hours later went to start the van, the battery exploded spreading acid for 20 feet out of the front of the van. get it out of the circuit as it will drain your good batteries and kill them too.

our office went several routes at once, anyone with a laptop was told to take it home every day, then anyone using a desktop that had a computer and internet available was able to log in via rds to their desktop computer, these people were not contactable by phone, eventually (after about a week) laptops started being issued, our mitel phone system worked on the laptops using headsets, then covid measures were put in place, offices were gutted and new desk layouts went in with 'hot desks' these were a desk with laptop dock and 2 screens, nothing was allowed to be left and these desks were cleaned daily, so it was your desk for the day, keyboards mouse and headset all taken home with you, and issued to you personally. i now have a laptop with peripherals so i can work in the office if needed (the desktop machines are plugged in around the walls with no peripherals attached - no keyboard, mouse or screens, just plugged in and network cables.

monday mornings when all the shop traders come to get their floats for the tills, in coin.

when i download from my canons i set it to file them in date order when it downloads, then its simple when i come to upload them, i know the date they were taken.

yes but if they know the heights each of their boats needs using their height gauge on their slipway, they have a constant measure that they can check before they leave their yard which may save them a trip to the bridge.

Mine shows both the station and the railway through potter heigham

knowing Marthams, they know to the 1/4 inch, though they are designed such that the handrails will have taken the brunt of any damage, as they are the tallest parts (and also the easiest to repair or replace, they probably have a stack of ready profiled timber sitting in the workshops), silver jubilees are i think the tallest. they also dont use the bridge gauges as they know the heights that their boats need on the gauge in their slipway.

yes, cut back the ply inset some hardwood (glue and peg or biscuit into the ply end grain as necessary - or even arrange the hardwood so it dovetails into the ply (think of your insert as the dovetail finger, then it cant pull out directly it would have to slide out sideways, and cant be pulled out in the direction the two parts would pull) |____\_____________/____|

my copy shows all 3

My jarrolds is older but has a date of 1946 bottom left of the map, mine does show surlingham as a narrow passage, but navigable to near the ferry Inn.