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I got away with it a few weeks back on Facebook, maybe because I put a space in the first word, and fooled their mucky word filter robots.

Sorry about that, it's a built in naughty word filter, created by Americans, so very much leant towards their naughty words

It's fine to go and ask them if they need assistance with their electrical system, and if it's not holding charge to maybe let the yard know, who will then bring out a new set of batteries.

Even with the sun out, I have left the canopy up, the weather changes too quickly, I do have my solar panel out charging the solar generator.

A new phone having been obtained it was ascertained that the old son card was standard format, and the new required the nano card. As it was not pre cut for different sizes, I had to call upon my model making skills to trim the old son down to fit the nano slot, phone is working, so I must have got it right.

Currently moored at womak dyke, rain and thunder this time, so canopy has gone up and it looks like I will be staying here tonight.

And now we have a thunderstorm, 4:seasons in one day.

Ah, just where I was moored, so far we have had 2 really hard downpours, the seconds was accompanied by hail, I am glad I didn't have to drop the roof for ludham bridge, anyway stopped at the very end of womak dyke moorings for something to eat, I may stop here overnight.

Yup

Had the top down and was just approaching Paddy's lane when the heavens just opened, everything was soaked by the time I had the top up, only a short stop here while I sit out the worst of the rain.

Moorings full here now, just had to do sim card surgery as the new phone takes a nano SIM, and my old card was a standard one.,missing some contacts, that were in the phone memory, not the SIM, but back up and running mostly.

There was no space on the free moorings at the end of Richardson's when I came past just now, but there is space on stalham staithe as I type, this is where I have moored to go find a new phone.

If you haven't been told something then how would you know, they may have been told it was stern mooring most places.

Well it looks like I will need to make contact with civilisation again today, guess which idiot left his phone sitting smack under a drip from the roof last night, and now it's not interested in turning back on., It was only a £25 phone so no great issue, I had a lovely peaceful night, lulled to sleep by the patter of the rain, and though we have had a few showers already this morning, it's looking to be a fair day ahead.

I too spotted that boat stern moored to the bank, and thought how bizarre, but they seemed to be enjoying it.

Having just read that report, I see the quoted figures don't take into account the costs of recapping the piling and the legal fees, so another £5000 on top of the figures quoted, for a mooring for just 1 boat while the rest goes to private, it's a tricky call for the ba, get bashed for losing a mooring or get bashed for spending too much on securing it.

Well I ended up heading up the ant, toward wayford bridge, as it was tipping it down I decided not to go through to dilham, there is dredging going on at the next bend after hunsett mill, it's quite tight on the corner, the signs say up to 1 hour delays, but I was allowed straight through. I ended up on a wild mooring just by the 4 mph limit post just before wayford, I decided the gap on the bank looked Water Rail shaped, and it was a perfect snug fit.

Since the dredger has turned up, I have decided that was just a lunch stop.

I have to say, since the engine was fine, it does seem like the strap is probable cause.

After a fairly short (for me) cruise, I took a fancy to mooring up at st Benedict's church horning, I have never moored here before, and it seemed a good opportunity. Whether I stay just for lunch or overnight remains to be seen.

Well a short trip from bridge broad to wroxham staithe, moored up next to peters joy, and headed into town to Roy's, made a few purchases, and now just sitting enjoying an apple and ginger juice drink, soon to head back under the bridge and start my days travels properly.

Thank you, and everyone else who attended for the first time, overcoming the natural anxiety of meeting strangers that soon become friends, without new people giving it a try, the meets just wouldn't be the same. Thanks also to the old hands who made the newcomers so welcome, it really makes a difference. When so many like minded people get together for a day of fun and just having a chance to meet up, then it's good to see. I must pass along a complement from the salhouse ranger from Sunday, when she came by, and said, that it looked like we had never been there, we left nothing for them to clean up, thank you everyone for helping in any way toward this outcome. If the ranger looks forward to our annual meets, it makes the organisers job a lot easier.

The last time I did any serious lengths underwater was probably only 10 years ago, I used to worry the lifeguards at the local pool as they had lanes and you were supposed to swim lengths, I could regularly get 1 1/2 to 2 lengths by hyperventilation before I started, deep breaths until you felt the tingles indicating that the blood was highly oxygenated, I don't think I could do that well any more, but a few 40 second trips under a boat to untangle a strap from the prop isn't such a big effort.

It's just a good job that I don't mind swimming in the broads, or diving under the water, my underwater record is just over two lengths of the school swimming pool, 55m

I think I have found the cause of the problem, on a hunch I rigged the rescue ladder and took a swim, water was lovely and warm, round the junction of prop and hull I found this, it took 3 trips under the hull to untangle this, but it was pulling tight and wedging between the prop and the shaft mount, this was probably the cause of the engine slowing and stopping, funny I can't remember running over a paddle boarder, but it's not helpful when they leave straps in the water.