grendel

I have a few sets of pmr radios that I am happy to lend out on the cruise in company (about 10 sets) to maintain communications.

I used to have a 'Truckers Atlas' that showed all the low bridge heights across the country, at the time I was driving a transit parcel van with a roofrack and had an air draught of around 10 foot 6" (it was a while back) so the atlas was useful, though to be fair there werent many bridges it couldnt get under. there was however a problem finding an MOT centre that had enough height above their lift, or used a pit under the van to inspect the bottom.

make it a nice tall boat and they will have to open the bridges for the commercial shipping.

Well that's all the safety advice passed out, there are some lovely spots all over for wild mooring, you could do worse than mudweighting on Barton broad ( as you come down from Stalham, just on the left as you enter the broad), there are some posts marking the channel, this is quite a popular spot for mudweighting up, just go a boats length out of the channel and you will be fine (dont do this on Breydon water though as that will rapidly leave you aground.)

at salhouse broad they have handy concrete slabs to sit disposable barbecues on, also dont use the wooden quay heading as that too can catch alight, and the roof of the boat or sitting on the gas locker is also a bad idea.

I have wild moored with a mudweight down at the front and a rope tied to an overhanging branch at the back, just off shore. but yes if you are fishing mid broad, you will need two mudweights to stop the boat swinging, just ask and the yard should be happy to help, same as when you are solo helming it is fine to ask for longer mooring lines. as a note to those that hire from Martham Boats, they usually only have 1 stern mooring line attached (the other will be in a locker), so dont forget to rig the second before you set off and run the lines into the cockpit, their bow lines will stop short of being able to get into the prop too

I sometimes use a huge breakfast to enable me to keep going through the day until a smallish main meal at the end of a day, a good breakfast can set you up for a hard days work.

hmm, I approved your membership earlier, and all seemed fine, your first few posts have to be approved by moderators, this is a spam prevention measure, but after you have cleared the pre approved posts you should be fine, it may just have been your first few posts until your account was approved. see how it goes and let us know if the problem persists, and we will investigate further.

I do wonder whether global warming is just staving off the start of the next ice age sometimes.

I would like to think that even hiring solo that if I did hit another boat, it would be just a gentle touch, rather than a full blown hit, running solo does create more problems to solve when mooring, but you would still only want to be moving very slowly if at all when you got to the point of stepping off with the ropes. I can see you might have issues getting off a lee mooring single handed, as you cant always spring off using a bow rope, while at the same time controlling the boat, but you can still do things slowly enough to be more careful. that said, things can go wrong and you can get in all sorts of fixes. it is also down to perception, when does a gentle touch of fenders while reversing into a tight mooring spot change in perception to being rammed by an inconsiderate boater, to some a gentle nudge of the fenders, may be seen as being rammed by the offender, who would then have trouble seeing in what way they had offended, sometimes when getting into a space the boats to either side may have shifted slightly narrowing the gap, so would reversing into this space be seen by some as having their boat hit by another, when in truth the reversing boat was just moving those to the sides back into their spot. I have been on a boat at potter where the pilot brought the boat alongside another craft so he could disembark, and the touch was a lot less than gentle, but not hard enough to say he hit it, so it makes me ask the question, when does a touch turn into a hit?

well when you compare it to the current grumpy old gits Lads week in october, what do we do, we head from pub to pub, play darts , shove ha'penny etc etc, we take great care of the boats most of them are returned better than they left the yard, upgrades such as led lighting courtesy of Robin, and a complete snagging list of faults we didnt get round to fixing on our return (sticky door handles and the like), we have a good time, but are courteous to other boaters and apart from minor things (such as the dinghys rudder breaking in our hands last year - to be fair the previous screws into rotten wood and gaffer tape repair the boat yard sent it out with - failed)) we treat the boats well too.

Dont forget - And may it Not Sail over the edge, Just for the flat earthers out there.

120 miles a day here, good old audio books, if I am delayed I hear more of the book.

I witnessed aggressive driving on the A11 one trip back from Norfolk, a car was overtaking me, and had barely got a car length clear of me when he changed back to my lane, this upset the other car who had been right on his bumper, as he too tried to cut in in front of me and undertake the first car, I was doing about 65mph at this point. the second car complained loudly at being cut up, and proceeded to overtake the first car, then pulled in front of it and slammed his brakes on. I calmly pulled out into the fast lane and continued at the same speed I had been proceeding past both of them, while they had an argument as to who had been in the right and who had been in the wrong (both of them to my mind) if that is the standard they are driving it is no wonder they are too busy to see roundabouts. yes I do have a dash cam too.

you ought to try the M25, accidents are a daily occurrence, usually several a day somewhere around the M25. I believe the general standard of driving has dropped, its either that or some drivers just have a dont care attitude towards other drivers and assume that everyone will get out of their way while they do what they want, then are surprised when someone doesnt - or cant, or road conditions dictate that they should slow down, but rules dont apply to them. of course some laws always apply- the laws of physics and the law of gravity.

capture them all and send them to Chris Packham?

just you wait until they put a roundabout next to the racecourse on salhouse road

I dont think the software likes spaces, or certain punctuation items either, if you put the username you wish to use in the search it should find any other instances, otherwise pm me the username you wish to change to and I will see if I can find why it wont allow it.

i went on the tom tom site and there was an update to prevent failure, but it told me mine was fine.

actually if what we think happened really did, the bin men were fed up of having to take the inset smaller bins out of the top of the wheelie bins, so we think one week they did just that, went round and dumped the recycleables in the lorry, inserts and all.

if you are going to be coming back to the boat after dark - take a torch, the path back to the staithe takes sudden right angles, and one step too many = splash

we have inserts in our bins to segregate the paper and card- well we did until someone came along and stole all of the inserts

I just have 2 words - Milk bottles they used to be glass, the milk company would come and take them from your front door, they would then be washed and returned full of new fresh milk. now we have few proper milkmen, bottles are plastic (I suppose glass breaks and is a health and safety hazard), thousands of milk containers get thrown. a lot of councils wont accept glass in the recycling (that safety hazard yet again) yet it is the one material that is almost infinitely recyclable.

Bella the easy way to attach pictures is just drag and drop into the box below the bit where you type your message. (that is using a standard browser rather than one of our apps.

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