HemsbyPie

If in a pickle and they are in the area then yes. However id say sinking your boat is more than a pickle. If your boat is going down then realistically you need to be thinking Coastguard rather than the BA...

And not forgetting that the BA are not an emergency service... You don't see the highways agency dealing with RTAs...

You'll be surprised where you can get a 999/112 signal when your phone appears to have nothing at all. i don't believe the myths about 112 being more likely to get through are true, and hopefully never have to find out!!

The BA were aware of what had happened however Coastguard were not. A call was then made by the public to CG and they acted; if CG get a call for a sunken vessel they don't have time to call other agencies, they have to press the button (especially out of hours as this was)

Taken from official page: Wednesday 20th July 2016 HEMSBY BROADS LIFEBOAT - callout Paged by Humber Coastguard at 19:31hrs to reports of a sunken sail boat on Barton Broad. ... On arrival at scene it was confirmed by other boat users that the crew from the stricken craft had abandoned ship earlier and got ashore safely. A position fix was recorded and passed on to Humber Coastguard who in turn contacted the Broads Authority to put marker buoys in place with a planned recovery for the morning. On our return to Sutton Staithe we came across a small sailing boat with one person on board having difficulty ‘Making way’, so we offered him a tow back to Sutton due to the onset of darkness. Also in attendance: Winterton Coastguard Teams Hemsby Broads Lifeboat returned to station and were back on service at 22:30hrs

This is likely to be me... Never get to be on the Broads for leisure purposes and finally convinced the wife to do a long weekend on the wet stuff. will be off season So would hopefully make it to Wrexham on the first day in that case!!

Anyone know this? Roughly using a ruler and google maps it looks to be about 11 miles? Thanks in advance!

By the time they got to Potter bridge they were spaced out by about an hour so very little drama to report. With regards to right of way, I have no idea but a bit of common decency goes a long way... Sailing vessels are fairly low down on the pecking order but no idea where a paddle board would be, but then everyone using the water has the same obligation to avoid collision...

All fair comments, however consider this... The previous "boat adrift" call-out to this one turned into a missing person search, eventually resulting in the guy being pulled from the reeds with early stages of hypothermia half way between Acle & Yarmouth at 2am. Sometimes acting to help someone before they become a real casualty helps prevent & preserve, which is better than cure. nobody will disagree that running out of fuel is a school-boy error, but if we were all perfect then we wouldn't need any emergency services...

Just a reminder that the annual paddle board race will be taking place tomorrow afternoon (2pm start) from How-Hill to Martham Boats

In an emergency (Iminent danger to life or property) it's always 999 and ask for Coast Guard. They have fairly substantial knowledge of the broads and have the ability to deploy the quickest / most appropriate assets. Boaty people seem to be fairly resilient though and nearly always help each other out, I often think that if drivers were the same you'd see a lot fewer people stranded in the motorway!

Aha! Been away for a bit so didn't realise they were gone, will keep a look-out

I don't understand?

Spending a rather warm week in Sotogrande, don't think you'd get most of these under Potter

Oh dear No - hire companies are fairly well versed at looking after their own boats (in the light at least)

Was a hire boat, on their first day (matter of hours) by all accounts, hopefully they'll have a quieter end to the week

Women drivers

He didn't actually fall in whilst trying to moor up. They were a nice couple of blokes to be honest who just learnt a lesson the hard way... There are so many inaccuracies in the EDP report but I guess that's the press for you!

Was off when we found it so I'm guessing no, but didn't actually see it when adrift

Fact

Hemsby Lifeboat isn't part of the RNLI (not taking away from the immense job the RNLI do of course)

Trying to helm & tie up single-handed. One of his 9 lives gone for sure...

Steak in a normal pub is £10-£15 and bottle of house is usually a tenner minimum so fail to see how it isn't good value...

Probably last to know but just seen this on Groupon - £25 for 2 steak meals and bottle of Pino... If I wasn't about to jet off to Spain I'd probably be buying one instead of writing this... https://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/the-ferry-inn-1