Mark

Alan, do you know if this individual is attempting to collect along the length of the total 3 sets of moorings or just outside the cafe area? There were "reports" elsewhere that someone was trying to fleece people moored at the BA section as well as at the other section by the wind pump.

The calculation to make is : If you get there and its full you have to turn and as Robin says its doable, we did it in Thunder with 43ft length and a boat moored across turning area bank, however it was messy, so ....is it worth the hassle of reversing back instead and hedging your bets. Either way you have to turn, and you can :-)

for the pic and the note , I will duly give them a kick !

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As we are all the "next boat" when we plug in and get that remaining 10p ourselves , does it make a lot of difference? unless of course someone goes around using up the residual 10p and then moving on . But if you have to do that perhaps better not to be boating at all ?

:- ) It can be done (Just) we took Thunder up there back in Oct 15 and are nearly 44ft. Not only were there two boats alongside overlapping the turning point but they were nose to nose with the mudweights. We had to attach a spare rope to a stern rope, gently bow thrust and then pull on the rope whilst standing on one of the other boats. Lift a mudweight , wedge our nose between the boats and then push round. We also had another boat behind us by then as well which couldn't turn !

Thanks Peter

Peter: Do you know if when moored and then fishing at the lakes,if the bailiff takes money from the lakeside bank or is it pay in advance pls ?

I posted mine back to the BA in early March and received the new ones back on Fri 7th April

Last time we were up there in Oct 2015 with Thunder it was a pay per night, I believe £5.00 but wouldn't swear on it.

Indeed, we need to pull the whole thing together rather than looking at individual items, and maybe the reasoning behind why some owners want the move may have changed by then as well, and that would influence individual votes.

Matt, like I said, with the new owners favouring the North its a reasonable bet that the vote will be too move (if Clive still has space of course )

Opps yes indeed DOWN stream , and thanks for spotting and correcting

Or to make it easier think RRR... for keeping the Red (post) on the Right (Starboard) when Returning (To Sea) So more basic still, RRR if navigating up stream, and the opposite for down stream

San Michelle is shown on the website as "Unit no longer available" San Carlos however is still available via the website but not until mid July 2017 and then from Stalham, so it maybe that the former has been sold, whilst the latter is doing its winter & spring at Acle. Prisma incidentally is also shown as "Unit no longer available"

Cockshoot dyke moorings closed for re-piling from 12th Dec to 31st March http://www.broads-authority.gov.uk/boating/navigating-the-broads/urgent-boating-information/temporary-closure-of-cockshoot-dyke-24hr-moorings-from-monday-12-december-until-friday-31-march-2017

Went thru Gt Yarmouth at time was supposed to be low and still a fair way to go down and met a bath tub that had lost control just in Bure mouth coming out towards yellow post . Gave us a fright !

Wind up merchant , you,ll be telling us that the Irons are a decent team soon !

This might assist. Eric I think you may have used the Norfolk-Broads.org Tide table to get the Sun set at 19:45 ? Confusingly this has tide times in BST.... but the Sun rise/set is shown in GMT, meaning that Sunset is not until 20:45 for the purposes we are talking here as we are on BST until later in Autumn. So Max, leave a little before the 18:00 you mention and when you should be on slackish tide anyway & you then have three hours until sunset to get there and with the tide pushing you most of the way. Your next worry of course is if you can get onto the 24 hour moorings at dusk. You could of course reserve at the yacht Station, but would also need to leave Reedham a little earlier then as around 3 hours, 30 mins

Yes I noticed the bit about the moorings too and has often been discussed on this forum. So effectively if I understand it correctly there should be no real question as to who has the rights to the two sections and if chargeable, as each owns part, but it is the shop which actually collects all the fees and with the agreement of the other party and on behalf of both. So no one loses out, and hopefully an incentive to keep things exactly as they are then... at least for users mooring purposes.

I reckon a few of those 43hp have retired to the knackers yard

You're welcome Grace and know what you mean about the mooring. For us it's normally worse as with just the two of us I tend to helm arrival and departure and Janet is the Bow lady. We approach quietly and hope for no errors...and then i cock up and the two dogs feel obliged to tell all by barking the place down and alert everyone to watch !

Easily the best pub on the South for food, atmosphere, friendliness and staff. Cannot recommend more highly, and a great place to wake up to a Brekkie too if you book the night before. Scores higher than the Bridge at Acle for me by virtue of the fact that you can also book your mooring well in advance here if you wish too.

One of the best adverts for the South on this site to date Matt. Please don't do it too frequently

Matt you've achieved honorary blogger status on behalf of Thunder, and your week is sounding pretty similar to ours. Hope you didn't sustain too many hits. We got onto Womack Staithe the previous Monday, and during a pleasant afternoon nap was awoken to a big clunk and the sound of our mud weight being carried away as a hirer ended up along aside whilst attempting stern on and then decided to heavy throttle forward and took the chain. Fortunately there seemed to be no damage to Geoffs hard work of a couple of weeks previous. Then we took another whack at Gayes Staithe when the neighbour initially decided he didn't need to use his mud weight despite on going 50km gusts!