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Rather than the hireboat companies looking at new ways to improve this behaviour with their deposits and waivers I propose a large fleet of drones armed with CCTV cameras randomly operated over all parts of the broads. High risk groups of hirers and privateers with previous could be indentified and then covertly followed to see what they get up to.
Lets face it, the boatyards need business and I doubt they want the trouble anymore than the rest of us. Theres a lot more that could be done within the law to protect people on the broads and my drones would help "keep an eye on things".
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Good news, again well done Boulters
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I think we should all accept accidents and mishaps will occur.....but..... Ive said it before that I wouldnt get upset at a boat "touching" ours to assist in mooring, its those that are being reckless that I get hot and bothered about. The way I see it is that a sensible inexperienced person will be careful in what they do (you can spot them easily) and the people with no sense are the ones you dont want to be anywhere near (they stick out like a sore thumb!) like the romany hitting potter bridge, alphacraft at thorpe and various other events (horning) that have been reported on the forums of late, these are not accidents and mishaps, they dont get reported as they are a fact of life.
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Ive made mistakes, the best one was in moores basin (when it was moores) i had reveresed in to stern moor, the wife stepped a shore with a rope and as soon as she was off I followed her from the helm with the other rope, we soon noticed that the boat was not letting us pull it to shore as intended and felt rather heavy......I had left it in Gear! Still, no harm done and lesson learned!!
The thing in all of this is you wouldnt go camping and expect someone to drive over your tent, kick your dog and pee in your bbq......
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Theres accidents and recklessness, unfortunately what BB has encountered is the latter. Accidents happen but recklessness on the other hand makes my blood boil, hitting another boat at full throttle, theres just no bloody need for it. If this ever happened to us not only would the culprit be paying for the damage to the boat to be repaired to as new standard I would also be taking up a personal civil case against the skipper.
You can never totally relax being a boat owner on the broads, and I would argue incidents like BB's occur fair more frequently than has been suggested.
Its just lucky there were no serious injuries BB (i hope) but one day someone will end up dead as a result of total idoicy.
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a joke? Theres nothing funny about being shot in the face
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Ive just driven by on my way home to the even rougher place known as Lowestoft, and Im happy to say I saw no gun wielding nutters, no police, no helicopters....nothing
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The hire firms just need to find a way of weeding out the stupid hirers and also the sensible ones with the potential to be reckless. I agree that the CDW probably leads to a lot of this type of thing and handing over a significant cash sum or having it held on a credit card at the start of each hire would certainly kerb a lot of this. In my opinion of course.
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Thanks for that Frank and all others who have posted. Sounds a very pleasant place indeed its now the top of my list for next season!
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Griff are you sure that couldnt be called cruelty to animals
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Personally i feel the BA have got enough on their plate, sounds like a bit of spin or a smoke screen to me.
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So it look like being awkward might just cost Boulters money then? I bet they agree to transfer it now
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Not good customer feedback for Boulters when usually only good can be said for them. Would it really have hurt them to agree to a transfer, the boat probably wont breakdown anyway.
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Thanks Jaws
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Are there any owners on the site at Broadsedge in Stalham. Im just wondering what the prices are for this year if anyone could advise. Ive looked on the website but they dont advertise the rates!
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If I had a choice of engine in a hire boat mine would have to be a Rolls Royce Olympus every time, then there would complaints about speed and wash
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BMC, Nanni, Lister, Perkins, Beta take your pic
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The Vulcan flew over the airport in 2010, to say my windows shook was an understatement! Fascinating to see and hear, its a shame i dont still live by the Airport, I used to go down to the eastern end of the runway on Saint Faiths Road regularly to watch the aircraft coming and going. The wife and I sat under the runway lights one evening as a Fokker 70 came in, brilliant!
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On the southern broads I can pick up TV signal on the move pretty much uniterupted with a basic aerial and 12v booster, its on a pole and stands about 10ft above the waterline and its easy to remove and stow away when needed. I like my TV, I dont drink so I dont sit in the pubs other than for a meal early evening so when the lights gone to dim for fishing its a must for us. Whats there to see outside in the dark, and when you have been married nearly 15 year whats there to talk about?
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Is it possible the booster wasnt turned on or is it on permenantly.
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At a brokers your paying between 4 - 8% of sale for the privelage!!
There may well be a similar setup when selling a sited static caravan to.
A marina taking a percentage of a sale in my mind is nothing more than profiteering atleast a brokerage is providing a "sales" service for their fee.
All this leads to me wonder what other costs are imposed on the hire industry so as mr A B & C get a pound of flesh to. Straining the industry even further, hoseasons and blakes for example, I remember one yard owner telling me once he had to pay quite a large fee on each boat hired wether he let it or his agent did. Is an organistation like Hoseasons even needed these days?
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At our last marina mentioning no names this was clearly written in the mooring contract
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It's ok if you just want to go to the same old place, year after year, but we like to vary our holiday destinations. For three thousand pounds per year, we could have a ten day cruise, to the Carrabean, plus a week in a four star hotel, anywhere in the UK. Or four weekly holidays in the uk and a few mid week breaks as well.
Owning your own static caravan or lodge, these days, is becoming quite expensive and there are too many rules and regulations of what you can or can't do. Some sites, won't even let you sublet unless you do it through them and they take a big slice of your profits.
I think we will have our holidays, by hiring a boat, caravan or stay in a nice hotel.
Similarly if I decided to sell my boat from a private marina mooring, the marina owner would expect his cut of the sale figure
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Jonzo in some cases static caravan site fees can be as much if not more than toll/insurance/moorings. That is if you prefer a site with facilities and not just be in the middle of a farmers field! We looked into Carlton Meres in suffolk last year and if memory serves the site fees were in excess of £3000 per year.
Inverter RCD question
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Need a bit of advice please
We have a 12v(1000w) inverter which is wired into the sockets on the boat via a rotary changeover switch. The shore supply is RCD protected but at the moment the supply from the inverter isnt. Its a floating system but the chassis of the inverter is earthed to the weed filter tube nearby but nothing else is. Should It have an RCD fitted on its output and would it even trip if a fault occured? Or can anyone suggest a better way of doing it. Eagerly awaiting any advice!