JanetAnne

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Brilliant. Thanks everyone. There is, of course, more available so keep those orders coming. Our next stage will be to submit the pictures for voting on. Because time is a bit short this year we are going to get a week to submit them and then a week to vote so watch this space for updated news flashes. Now I'm not clever enough to do the software thing that makes it happen and the tech team are worked off their keyboards at the minute with all this server change stuff so I cant give you an exact date for voting yet, but I will make sure everyone has as much notice as I can. I am told that the picture with the most votes is used for the front cover followed by the 12 that you all choose accordingly. I hope there will be a couple of Christmas ones... Not for the calender of course, just to wind old Pesky up (its only October)

Seeings as there is no restriction of use on private boats I would suggest that some vessels easily match days out and about of an average hire boat. Its the hire boats that keep the pubs and broads based facilities going - well you know what I mean. Perhaps a more careful spend of the toll revenue would allow the hire boat multiplier to be reduced without costing the private boaters the shortfall?

Would that saving be passed on to the hirer? If so then I am all for it!

Yay!

One or two in here may still be out there http://oldcarservices.co.uk/chrome-silver-nickel-plating/

Sunday is always a good day to order a calendar.... Just a few more and we can start enjoying all those lovely pictures you have ready to submit!

Bump...

Just worked mine out... It will be one boat less for us in 2017 and one toll less for them.

So far.... JA 2 Pesky 2 Jonzo 1 Speedtriple 1 Deebee29 1 JM 1 Psychicsurveyor 1 Boating man 1 Ranworthbreeze 1 Gracie 1 (unless subject matter changes) Bound2Please 1 Vaughan 1 MauriceMynah 1 15 so far... start dusting off those pictures ready people!

Looking good.... Pictures. Don't post them on this thread. I believe them that are clever have checked that we have the same software as last year available so there will be a seperate thread for you to upload them and vote for them shortly. I know there is a certain criteria for these pictures which will be explained when the the next stage is reached. In the meantime keep the orders coming. Almost half way there now! p.s. - Gracie, be careful what you wish for! Those of us with a nervous disposition would probably not survive anything other than the broadland scenes. That Pesky one posing could shiver me old timbers!

No choccy will be harmed in the making of this beautiful piece of broadland art. However, your favourite boat could end up with egg all over her stem post if, having begged for the chance to make this happen for 2017, she fails to show enough support for it...

Oh you lucky lucky lot! I have it on very good authority that if I can show 25 pre orders for a proper NBN 2017 calendar then the powers that be would let us have one after all... So, place your orders here and dust off those pictures ready for submission so we can get it all in place in double quick time and I don't have nothing over the bench to look at in January. Price will be a bargain £12 each including postage and if they allow me to post them out I promise to seal each one with a nice big boaty kiss How can you resist eh? To start it off I will have two. One for the bench and one for the cabin. Over to you...

A whole year with nothing to look at over the bench?

Is that not a bit like going to a race track without a car and asking those racing to allow you to compete? While I agree that Mr Loo should have the access he desires, should that access be at the expense of the boater /toll payer there will very quickly be nothing recognisable left for him to access.

A good friend and Waveney regular told me yesterday that it seems the Waveney is to close in the next few weeks. That could be another one gone....

Not sure so don't take this as correct but I seem to think the stat unit is three wire whereas the on/off is a two wire system. If you have a timer as well then it's four wire. Having said that there are many two wire domestic stat units so it's quite possible there is a two wire webasto stat unit available

She is being craned out end of the month and will leave by road. It will be the first time she has left Catfield in two years. Can't see her going back..

Has anyone got a pair of oars they can lend our Peter?

I do still wonder what the definition of 'navigation' actually means? If its a case of by canoe we are all doomed. If it's by wherry then we have an idea. As you know, we have a gay lady trapped at Catfield because Hickling is too shallow to get her out. Should all navigation be dredged to allow such a boat access or is the couple of feet needed to float a Ricco's flat top deemed enough? We are quick to tell people who can't get under Potter that they bought the wrong boat, did the people who can't get out of Catfield do the same? So, what I ask is a definition of navigation. What is the acceptable minimum standard? Once that is established I know what I am going to start fighting for.

My main concerns are navigation, dredging and moorings although the three do seem to go together. I did get to ask JP about the lack of dredging of the lower bure and artificially high water levels caused by this and got this answer. Dear JanetAnne, In the last 3 years the BA has dredged over 70,000m3 from the river Bure, however the modelling that we carried out as part of the Sediment Management Strategy showed that dredging has minimal impact on water levels. In fact, the Bure Loop acts a throttle in the system and restricts the flow of water heading upstream from Great Yarmouth which is why the waterway specification was restricted by agreement with Natural England to reduce the potential for saline incursion. Generally speaking, water levels are more influenced by atmospheric conditions and rainfall in headwaters and there is good evidence from the bridge pilot records at Potter Heigham that water levels have increased over the last 30 years. We have also spent a lot of time, energy and money in agreeing a vision for Hickling which is allowing us to carry out dredging on this very sensitive site, and will include Catfield Dyke in a later phase. Regards John Since then I have been researching the 'rainfall in headwaters' and looking at more general rainfall data for the last 30 years but can find absolutely no correlation between what comes out the sky and what we are seeing on the network. So I figure the fact that less of us can get under 'that' bridge is still down to the lower bure no longer carrying water away on the tide. I do feel that Natural England saying dont dredge may have been welcomed by the BA though? In Oulton Dyke the Tea Gardens moorings were extended by the use of pontoons. Is this not an option elsewhere? I sort of figure that we dont need land owners consent to pop a pontoon or two alongside the main channel...

If only the hudl had a 'copy' button that I could find eh?