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Just one thing to remember, bring some washing up liquid.

Going to be cruising around hickling and horsey today, meanwhile, I have taken some interior shots of Judith 5, both using my DSLR and my tablet, so I will share the tablet ones for now, excuse the lived in look. Opposite the toilet is a storage area (the domestic batteries live under here) this is plenty big enough to store most things, currently it has my telescope and camera gear, plus the boxes I used to transport stuff to the boat. It would even store quite a large pushchair or pram. Seating in the cockpit is a small 2 person bench and a high stool for the helmsman. The boat is very easy to handle, goes where it's pointed, and compared to some, quite light on the steering, it also carries on pretty straight if you leave the wheel to take a picture.

Beautiful sunrise over the early morning mist on the water.

It's getting a bit dark for decent pics with the tablet however I will get some with the DSLR later, and more through the week.

Moon through telescope

Pictures

Eventually, picture s are on the camera, I'm using my tablet, camera won't download to the tablet. You might have to wait until I get home.

Slowly biodegrading

Obviously not, or there wouldn't have been any boats left to stick notices on.

Explode bleeping AutoCorrect

Currently moored up here

The main reason if you have a dud battery for not drop testing is that the gas can explore, I had one in a van do just that, took it off charge, went to start and boom, battery and acid everywhere, lucky it was in the engine bay not under my seat.

Currently reading this moored up at deep go dyke, got the kettle on for coffee.

about the same time they changed pub licencing hours, I bet you noticed that one.....

Doug, she is a lot better now than she was coming from Martham, that was brute force and ignorance, since we replaced the cable she is a lot lighter to steer. but in marthams shed out of the water she was so hard to steer that I broke the cable.

"lets get as many people in on the consultation as we can, then any blame can be spread a lot thinner"- you mean?

I dont pick up judith 5 until Tuesday.

my level of welding is probably about on a par with yours, I have used both rod welders and gassless mig, and of the two the gasless mig is the better. yes they do jam at the feed - so do the gassed ones. I can join two pieces together, its strong it works, its not pretty

apart from the many hire boats with the number on the rear cabin, that were ignored by the rangers.

I think I have figured a solution that would satisfy the bylaws to the letter at least.

Why does this strike me as having a great potential to go horribly wrong? - even if it does achieve its goal, it seems a little too close to playing god for my liking, surely the correct thing to do would be remove the root cause (they mention fertilisers draining into the waters, rather than playing around with the eco balance? a lot of other factors have changed since they closed cockshoot broad and cleaned that, dredging practices, etc was cockshoot ever open to boaters? and is it still open to boaters? hmm that could be a bad precedent to follow.

I would also think that viewing numbers on the stern of the boat would be impossible as the stern is generally below the quay heading, I could see the point that numbers on the cabin sides might be obscured by the boats moored alongside as viewed from either side of the wet shed, so it could be said that the ranger could not see any of the numbers, either due to the adjacent boats, or because the whole of the transom would not be visible. Sort of makes it a bit pointless to check the boats while they are in the wet shed doesnt it. unless of course they had a target list of boats already in mind.

I think that photo of Ivy Lady also highlights the problem of putting the numbers at that location, ie at the point on the bow with the greatest sheer, at this position and as indicated in the photo they are clear - when viewed from about water level at a distance of about 15 foot, even at this angle the numbers are distorted by perspective and the angle of the sheer. from a position higher up (from the bank or another boat) the angle of the sheer will just make this number less easy to read - a direct contravention of the part in the guidelines that says or the bylaw that requires it to be conspicuously displayed. in similar cases with the transoms of sailing boats the guidelines allow for some degree of re positioning to make the number conspicuous, which is arguably the reason Broad Ambition has them on the cabin side.

Also they say it is to prevent confusion due to boat names being repeated, just how many Broad Ambitions are there?, I suppose it must be because Griff has disguised her by changing the mast. I too disagree with the fact they are only enforcing the rules for some, and that they must enforce them for everyone or not at all.

not to mention the fender line is partially obscuring the number