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I see on their short visit tolls page they say - https://www.broads-authority.gov.uk/boating/owning-a-boat/tolls/short-visit-toll/short-visit-outlets

can you do it by phone with the BA, the rangers out on the river should also be able to do it.

would he have put up with his neighbor doing it outside his house?

so its now the turn of the mudweight winch, a couple weeks back at the boot fair I had picked up some radio control bits, amongst which were a couple of small motors with gearboxes, I decided to print some winch drums and see how they went. after that it was a case of testing, on 6v one motor was making about 60 rpm, the other about 8rpm, after taking a couple of gears out of the slower gearbox that too was up to about 60 rpm. I do now need to make a spacer for the gearbox that replaces the two gears I have removed

Something tells me you are exaggerating JA, that doesnt look like Breydon to me...

if you take the time out to measure up and get a good dimensional drawing of the skeg now, you could get a new one made up in the interim for the next AMP in two years.(or whenever a new one is needed) do it in stainless and it will last another 100 years..

they look to be adjacent to the areas we worked on last time.

you are making me regret booking boats and using all my holiday up before the year had really started Griff, I dont think I will be able to join you this year, (I also have some other urgent tasks that need doing which I will tell you about when I see you next).

I used to have multiple site inductions for some sites I visited, Once as a general worker, and again as a supervisor, and sometimes a third as the person putting myself to work, each site induction asked very much the same questions, but the answer varied depending upon which hat you were wearing at the time, then again when filling out the paperwork, and signing a form 3 times with 3 different hats on. as I was the only member of my company on site I not only had to put myself to work, but had to supervise both my other selves too, it was handy that at that site they had a permit to work system that used different padlocks, so I would have to attach the different locks in the correct places and in the correct order, all the time my permits were in force they were locked with my key, anyone else who wanted to work on the same equipment could not do so as long as my permit was locked in the permit room.

Always assuming that once you have got the washing machine / tumble dryer in, that if it goes wrong you can get it back out again - Eh Robin?

a toilet and a cooker, give me those two and a boat attached and I will be happy

I have always wondered if you owned several boats moored in different places, whether you could just move from one to another on a regular basis, and thus not be classed as a live aboard.

my part will just involve laying a single fibre optic duct across the road, but there are bound to be more delays there as they build the roundabout.

or you could look at Martham boats where the fuel is in the hire price, no deposit, no refund, just one fixed price.

maybe once it is again open the yacht station could give you a better indication.

There will be roadworks on Salhouse road Norwich later this year near the castle carvery racecourse - how do i know, because at least a small part of what they will be doing there is part of the design I am currently working on, and it appears a roundabout is planned for the new estate that will be going in there.

No, but they have final say whether they will take a boat through. Martham boats are based the other side of the bridge, they make it through more regularly as they are both lower than most boats, but more importantly narrower, this means the corners of the superstructure are closer together meaning they can use more of the arch, Martham boats only allow their own people to take the boats through the bridge, (apart from their sailing boats that easily clear). last year I was taken through on Janet 3 with about half an inch to spare with the boards reading 5'11" and the best I saw last year was 6'7" when we brought Royal Tudor through after she was put back in the water at Martham, that week there were a lot of boats being passed through both ways as the water was very low. the pilots were pretty busy, literally taking a boat through, stepping off the other side straight onto the next boat and bringing that back through.

I think the light one finger thing is normal on a power assisted steering car, my volvo will go from lock to lock stationary with just one finger.

was snowing down south too yesterday, yet was 6 degrees outside.

I used to ride my bikes 52 weeks of the year, the best was the bmw r80 rs that with handlebar mitts and heated grips kept your hands warm, your feet were right under the cylinder heads, and the rest hid behind the fairing, I once rode it 20 miles home on sheet snow and ice, got all the way home then dropped it outside the house on a drain cover that was clear, when the front wheel dropped into the hole in the snow as I turned into the drive. many a time I have removed the snow breastplate an inch thick after arriving at work.

done

having watched the facebook posts from Martham boatyard, most of their boats seem to have had one or more new planks over this last winter, I suppose it keeps their labour force occupied during the winter months, which would be an overhead they would have whether they did any work on their boats or not. but it must be a considerable investment, especially when we saw they were preparing some of the older hulls for re introduction into the hire fleet, and one hull was supposedly being prepped as a mould for more.

I guess its all down to getting the tides right for crossing the red sea then.

I am happily going to enjoy taking Jayne from Martham boats to the august wooden boat show, I have booked her for the week, and am not at all worried about the trip over breydon, timings should be reasonable for the days I plan to cross, then I will have a few days down that end of the system before heading for Beccles. I will be hiring solo, but this holds no terrors for me, if it takes a half dozen attempts to moor it takes a half dozen, care will be taken.

probably just the very Britishness of the tradition, I mean who else would base an annual holiday around such an out of the way variable. I just love how British Quirkiness insinuates itself into the world, and wouldnt want to change a bit of it.