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3 hours ago, CeePee1952 said:
Nestles alleged supply chain problem with the infamous Quality Street brand
They’re all in our local Tesco, stacks of them!
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Lovely! what a nice way to tell your tale.
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I like curtains, particularly in the cooler months. Makes it cosy. Apart from the height of summer (if anyone can remember what a good summer was like!), I like the sunshine being able to warm the interior of the boat too.
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I was awful at school in my teens, although expected to achieve a number of GCEs I left with one - cookery! My grandmother persuaded me to apply for a job in a bank but I told her I didn’t want to ‘work in a stuffy old bank’! However, I applied and 35 years later was extremely fortunate to be able to retire early. I did a few voluntary jobs until my OH retired and we bought our boat. During my time in the ‘stuffy old bank’, I saw many undergraduates come and go. Many were brilliant and certainly must have gone on to exhilarating careers. There were, however, quite a number who were excellent at learning and passing exams but incredibly poor at people skills and putting any knowledge to practical use. Banking of course has now changed beyond recognition and in this computer age maybe much more suitable to those with degrees etc. (I’m glad I’m not in ‘banking’ these days, that’s for sure!)
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1 hour ago, Meantime said:
If it was a private day boat, then there is no limit. Still yet to see or read anything which gives any definitive facts.
I believe the Radio Norfolk piece stated that the boat had too many on board. I wonder if this is an incident the MAIB will become involved with.
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1 minute ago, CeePee1952 said:
To be fair to EDP, that video was a link further down the page from the current incident although why put it there in the first place is beyond me.
Chris
Exactly!
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EDP on the ball as usual then!
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37 minutes ago, Hylander said:
6 at night , a day or picnic boat would be back at its base.
Or it began sinking whilst en route…….
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3 hours ago, Vaughan said:
I will do a detailed post about electric boat hiring if members would like me to
Yes please, nothing like first hand experiences.
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23 minutes ago, Vaughan said:
And in a British Leyland Mini it is impossible.
Are you quite sure about that?
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43 minutes ago, RS2021 said:
I've always done this too. Also before I put the hose into the filler I always wash the first couple of feet of the hose with the water coming through the hose.
That’s a habit of ours too. The first 30 seconds or so of water is used to swab the deck down around the filler cap, before the cap is removed of course!
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22 minutes ago, Bikertov said:
A question to think about with fresh water tanks - is it not better to run them down then refill, rather than keep them constantly topped up ?
Surely then you always have "fresh" water rather than a lot of old water in the tank ?
You then have to take the risk that you may not be near a water point when you need to fill up. Unfortunately water points can be few and far between, especially on the southern rivers.
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1 hour ago, Smoggy said:
The 4.5kg gas bottle is a full one though.
You need a security guard for that! 😁
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1 hour ago, Meantime said:
Dropped over the fence maybe? 😉
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2 hours ago, Vaughan said:
I have found that the best way to tell if you need to fill the water is to look at the waterline when the boat is moored up.
I can tell when our water tank is full by a wardrobe door closing automatically! When it is way down, the wardrobe door stays open.
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2 hours ago, Bikertov said:
There is an issue here, that there are some low bridges on the broads where a lot of boats have an air draft that will not / may not fit under certain of the lower bridges some or all of the time.
Summarised as follows:
- If you have a 'bathtub', it is generally not a problem to get anywhere.
- If you have a 'broads cruiser' eg with a retracting mid cabin, you may fit through most bridges given good tide conditions
- If you have a 'cabin cruiser', with retracting screens or similar, some bridges will be no-go, others you might just squeeze under at low tides
- If you have a fixed cabin cruiser or fly bridge, more bridges will be inaccessible.
So my question, as a prospective boat owner, is this - what is the tallest air draft that will allow reasonable access under most bridges at typical low tides ?
(I accept the Potter Higham is out of the question, but Wroxham would be a 'nice to have')
I think you’ve summed it up quite well there.
Having one of the much maligned bathtubs, it is only in very extreme conditions that we have a worry with bridges. We don’t even have to think about transiting at low water very often either and we use the whole Broads system regularly. (Our boat was chosen to take into account our advancing years 😩 and the ability to get dogs on and off relatively easily.)
Probably the most practical boat, imho, is the centre cockpit giving views across the reeds etc and the opportunity to drop the canopy for low bridges. There will always be a compromise but it’s well worth taking the time to really think about what is important to you, as you do seem to be doing.-
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2 hours ago, Bikertov said:
"Two boats" Colin ...
That is just greedy. Hoarding boats is not fair. Everyone should be entitled to have a boat, before you have a second boat.
I say we campaign for everyone to be entitled to a free boat from the Government if they can't afford one of there own ...
When you live on one, you do need a second for the ‘jollies’, right Colin? 😉
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The BA tide tables quote predicted heights relating to Yarmouth Bar. If you look down the tables at the heights given for high and low water times, it is very easy to see when the highest and lowest tides are occurring. Many of us mere mortals are unable to judge weather conditions, pressure etc along with these details so rely on tide times/heights alone. If the water is high at Yarmouth Bar, then it will be high further up the system, just not as much. (I find them useful in deciding whether or not to stop at Berney Arms or Burgh Castle for any length of time, neaps provide easier moorings.)
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2 minutes ago, Islander said:
In bottles.
But there is a shortage of bottles too! (According to Calor anyway.)
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1 minute ago, vanessan said:
I think it refers to that end mooring which is controversial in itself! A lot more information on this on t’other side.
Just seen Meantime’s post, apologies.
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2 hours ago, Mouldy said:
Just seen this on Faceache. Hope it only refers to the one mooring that’s already been marked as private.
I think it refers to that end mooring which is controversial in itself! A lot more information on this on t’other side.
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Jet garage in Wroxham has a tanker on the forecourt…….
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Water and electric available at the BA moorings.
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We use a collection of tide tables, the BA booklet, the Norfolk-Broads.org tables and the Aweigh app. They’re never more than half an hour apart. The BA booklet is particularly useful for tide rise and fall information, if you know whether it’s spring tides or neaps you have a pretty good idea of bridge heights across the system (and mooring possibilities on the southern rivers too!).
Having A Pump Out
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Brooms seem to have finally settled their kiosk opening hours as 10.00 - 17.00 daily. The hours used to vary according to whether it was a changeover day or not. This obviously gives them time to get their own hire boats sorted out with pumpouts, water and fuel on return and the quayside is then free for visiting craft. Seems to work ok.
Just a reminder, when we were last there (last month) there was a sign saying card payments only from end of October. That includes a £3 water fill.