grendel

Well on their faq page on their webste they post this: no mention of using the pilot.

the Martham boats all fit through, yes headroom when you are 6 foot plus starts to get an issue in the rear cabin.

wheres independence when you need her.

but by the time you hear its operational and rush there to get through, it will probably be stuck shut again.

there is a lovely little mooring on candle dyke, where Polly and I moored up after the salhouse meet, it was just big enough for a yacht and a martham cruiser, and perfectly placed to get back to the yard next morning.

I had a work colleague who vaped in the office, there is now a ban on smoking or vaping in the office - its smokers corner for the lot of them. I dont think vaping should be allowed anywhere smoking is not, particularly as some of the exponents emit more smoke than your average steam train pulling away. its bad enough having to walk through the clouds in public, but not in confined spaces please.

its lucky that Norfolk isnt likely to get the rain they are predicting for down this way tonight then, thundery showers and 30mm of rain, that 30mm might be all that was needed to stop them getting back through.

the snipping tool is like printscreen, but a lot easier to get a smaller area.

how about using google earth, putting in a placemarker, then using the snipping tool (found under accessories) to cut an image of the location map, then paste the map into the file or whatever you are using to display the results.

many years ago I had a friend who smoked a pipe - quite what he put in there we were unsure, but we all swore that he just swept the leavings and spillage from his desk into his tobacco pouch, as some times we could swear that he was smoking elastic bands.

I had that once except it was 3 police cyclists, they cycled straight out in front of me and I stopped with inches to spare as I had already slowed, had I been anywhere near the 30mph linit they would all have been flattened, they did all look a bit sheepish though.

my concern is still safety, allowing the swim to go ahead set a precedent, the normal view was swimming was not allowed, now swimming has happened, how can the Broads Authority stop someone swimming and say it is not allowed, add to that and having done the swim, some of the swimmers may well come back and take a swim up the river, but without the organization behind an organised swim, no safety boats to warn oncoming boats, no emergency services on hand. And thats what I have a problem with, the precedence has now been set. I remember one member posted how he encountered two swimmers in the water, in such a position as to have blocked the whole river. in the organised swim, the swimmers had bright coloured floats, to enable them to be easily seen, will these be used on an unorganised swim, all the safety measures of an organised swim will be missing, yet all the hazards we were concerned about will still remain. I dont have a boat, I dont pay a toll, thus there is for me only the safety aspect to consider.

the real safety issue here is that these people now see the broads as a swimming river, organised events is one thing, but suppose some of these people decide to go for a casual swim with no support craft or backup. A precedence has now been set.

well merging two of the ideas mentioned above, how about a roof over the bridge formed from solar panels, the shade will help keep the rails cooler, and the solar power could be used through peltier heat pumps to cool the rails further. A peltier is a device where you supply it with electricity and it moves heat from one side of the device to the other, as such it can be used for heating and cooling, now depending upon quite how these things work, it could also be used to heat the rails in the winter from those same solar panels to stop the track freezing.

I know when I went on a local (to me) narrow gauge railway they had 2 locos, and the reason was to do with the couplings, due to the type of coupling the loco could not push the train, only pull it, so a second engine was needed to reverse the train, running from a terminus like Norwich, you would need two locos in this situation.

potter heigham bridge is always uncertain, when I came down in may the clearance when I went through was 5'11", but recently with this good weather it has been nearer 6'10", there is a current post on the bridge clearance, which explains things a lot better than I could. your narrower beam is an advantage for potter bridge, and the rivers above the bridge are stunning.

when I did re-enactment we sometimes clubbed together and made vike stew, this consisted of tinned food all thrown in one communal pot, there was a standing joke that one member only ever bought tinned potatos.

right the clamps are off, but I do have a slight issue, due to the curve of the roof running both ways, the back edge of the roof does not quite sit flush which is why there is a clamp in this picture, I may need to form some sort of a clamp to lock it in place, at the front it has two arms that hook under the front windscreen, so just needs securing at the rear.

or he is tacking down river in his boat... Though you have achieved full member under the 50 post rule - the full member noted above your picture is an automatic status assigned by the forum, after this you are considered for membership in the full members area, this process usually takes about a week. you have access to the full members area when the member underneath your picture changes to full member. I believe in less than a week you have gone through the 50 post barrier up to 82 posts, so give it a few days and you may get a surprise. The above is a common misconception that once the top status changes, you can access the members area, its the bottom one that needs to change, you will note that on mine one says moderator, while the other says tech team, this is down to my multiple roles on the forum team.

you must have been sensible at first.

in the members area there are discussion that would probably be better kept out of the public domain, oh and the joke thread, that definitely doesnt want to be in the public domain.

in my day you ate it - or you ate it cold at the next meal, saturday we would have a roast (pork or occasionally beef) sunday would be cold beef or pork, monday would be rissoles with any leftover meat, tuesday the bones were boiled up for stock to make soup for tuesday and wendesday, I cant remember what we had thursdays or fridays, probably luncheon meat with bread and dripping from the meat, then saturday was back to roast, my mum certainly knew how to make a joint of meat stretch through the week.

ok, so an hour later, the glue is still flexible, so off with the roof and on with the clamps.

only an idiot could be that serious, its a good job he has a certificate to prove it.

so bulkheads trimmed down, paper protection from glue added and the roof is in place, in about an hour when the glue is holding, but still flexible the roof will be removed and then properly clamped now I have the spacing.