A lot of sailing clubs make extensive use of PMR's for rescue boat cover. At Hickling we can normally communicate with the club-house even when we are some distance down the river to Potter
Eh ? What do you base that on ? I could possibly concede Paddy's Lane to Pennygate, but Barton Turf Staithe not existing .....
That's new to me, the Barton Turf History Project ( http://www.barton-turf.co.uk/staithes.html ) and probably most of the village.
....and as I have said, as one who lives there, almost every day in the summer we have visitors walking down to Neatishead. I've even been known to offer a lift if passing. There will be a small but significant percentage of users of both shop and pub who tie up in Barton Turf and walk down. It's 1.5 miles / about 20 minutes.
As I put on the petition, these moorings are constant use during the season, and not just for the village. Many a tourist I have directed down to Neatishead for the pub / shop. I'm sure these would suffer some financial impact if the moorings were lost, with the resultant knock on to us who live there
Besides, I love chatting to visitors
I haven't ventured South, and am pretty aprehensive of so doing.
Under power I made 3.8mph on Barton according to my GPS
How strong are those tides again.............
Oh - and just realised afer much lurking ( and inhabiting elsewhere ) this is my first post here !