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Forecast is looking dry, but with light winds Almost time Bump

Saying that , I have no certificates, just 40 years experience of sailing in ever decreasing circles.

You'll notice I said if you go for some certificates!!

:SailingAs for sailies advice,? Read my notes on Horning regatta 2015, as most of it's covered in there. Oh and if you do go and get some sailing certificates, you'll find sailing in reverse is covered!

Soon to be none, nat west stalham is also closing as of Dec 3rd and the Hoveton branch will close Dec 2nd.

Well yes I did come via Inverness but that was 40 years ago when I was at school there, I came across via the A68 and A697and had a wonderful quiet and quick run through. I made Scotch Corner on time, it was the journey south of there, that was the problem, it being the first day of the school holidays, it was nose to tail all the way down the A1 coming to a halt many times, yet there were no accidents, it was just a huge amount of traffic coming to halt at every major road junction and then at Newark the Rain joined in!!

The high speed link to Norwich would be a good Idea, It would be better than the 12 1/2 hours!!!! it took me to get from Bo'ness to the Broads on Friday

Soon to be one

One week to go, I hope the weather is better, ☺ Bump.

My Halifax credit card was stopped due to an attempted fraudulent use of its number. They asked me to report to my nearest branch. Stalham gone, wroxham gone, north walsham gone, So I cancelled the card and went elsewhere. They rang me to ask why I had cancelled I said because its now a 40 mile round trip to find a branch but they said there's a branch in north walsham and gave me the address of the branch they'd closed! I predict outside of cities everyone will end up all being members of the sole remaining bank ( nat west in the case of stalham) or the post office bank.

I had haggis burger yesterday while wearing my kilt, well I am in Scotland at the moment. But I was wearing my kilt in Horning a fortnight ago and will in another fortnight. Anyway haggis is one of Norfolk's finest exports to Scotland.

I think I said that, Anyway, from up here in Scotland, Bump!!

Over the years of helming rescue boats at Horning sailing club I have rescued many more tourists in motor boats than sailing boats. Stearing gear and motor failure mostly. I've also rescued a grandmother and several life jacket wearing small children in a large dinghy it ran out of fuel! A young teenage girl in a hire lugsail, she couldnt sail back into the wind to her mother on the motorboat. And in the Falklands! Rescued a trainee windsurfer by towing him back behind a wayfarer dinghy, he was again unable to sail into the wind. Oh, I was single handed sailing the Wayfarer. We were on an inland lake.

I hope they are starting at intervals or it'll be like the 3 Rivers Race on the river, I would think it would take only half a dozen side by side to block it.! and they would have right of way over everything else!

:SailingJust another little bump to keep this above the waterline until the regatta

I think "the worries of turning into and out of the site" are a bit spurious, I'd rather it was someone going to or from a religious ceremony than someone who had been at the bar all day!!!

I'll be making my own galvanic Isolator, having researched them, price on ebay which is probably as cheap as you'll get £45 to £100. Parts inside cost £5 - £10 (a pair of block diodes and a capacitor) nice heat sink Box (which you don't really need £20) or suitable aluminum extruded box £6. oh and a couple of connectors if you want it removeable (I don't) But if you're not in electronics (which I am) and don't know what you are doing don't risk it, that lots of volts and current in there,

I'm Not saying anything about the rescue but. the response "Ten police cars, an ambulance crew, a rapid response vehicle, ambulance officer, and East Anglian air ambulance attended yesterday" Which I think is a bit over the top.

It's been interesting reading on this thread of the problems with posts / cards, personally I've not used them yet. But when I get my Boat back from Boulters it will be Diesel Electric. (diesel generator, electric motor, battery pack for 3-4 hours if I don't switch the generator on). So at that point I will definitely use the posts, and if it works as it should, £1 for a charge up doesn't seem too bad.

I meant to add we are only one regatta on the broads, please see www.thegreenbook.org.uk for details of the excitement all over the Broads. this and every year.

just a little bump to keep this I sight until the chaos arrives

Someone mentioned you might get held up in Bedford, shouldn't go through Bedford as you go Bicester, Tingewick, A421 part of which is the southern bypass of Bedford, BryanWs route is correct . I've used this route and watched it develop over the last 40years. You've saved a couple of hours since then!

To Expand on the above, Some people have heard that competitors are supposed to give way to non- competitors. The RYA advises that competitors do not impede non-competitors, this is fine in open waters but in confined waters there is no way of safely sailing around to two sets of rules . So all Broads clubs I know of apply the Collision regs / Broads Authority Regs (They are almost the same) which make no distinction between competitors and non- competitors. if we didn't we'd meet in the middle! :SailingThe worst cases are for sailing indecisiveness, is making a tentative decision in the middle of a fleet . Know and apply the rules, For instance if you were to arrive at a Starboard running fleet while on port tack, close hauled, your only official route would be to turn and run away! though most go to the bank and stall head to wind, this we are used to and sail around, following the official course would please no one, as swamped by a wall of sail behind you, you would be rapidly enveloped. :StinkySimilarly for motor boats I have had Private motor boats say to me "we know what to do", and then set off to weave down the middle of a few boats, then of course they round the corner to find themselves in the middle of 100 Boats, halving the effective width of the river with boats have to tack away both sides. I am normally, for regatta week, at the Dydlers Mill end of the course in the rescue boat, Advising Day boats (and anyone else) of the chaos Ahead The Lady I used to sail with also didn't like the crowds of regatta week and took her boat out for maintenance during it. I've sailed at Horning for most of the last 40 years, however I have found that when I have sailed in open waters well away from the broads ( Saudi, Falklands, Somerset, Northumberland and several places between, they are very concerned at how close I sail to other boats but this is a (legal) habit from the broads you use all the space you can! This has the opposite effect when an experienced sailor from elsewhere comes on a broads sailing /or motor boat holiday and they get extremely upset when we sail by :Stinkyleaving only a couple of inches! :SailingBy the way the Monday to Friday of regatta week is an open event, if you wish to compete, entry is race by race, at the club and you can launch at the club. race details are on the club web site and we have a Social event every night! Come and experience real close sailing!!!

Do as I do in that situation, time your tacks so that when they arrive you are on close hauled Starboard tack then they have to and will give way. Remember to hail them with "close hauled Starboard". Then they know, you know what you are doing. I've used that trick many times during racing when faced with a wall of running boats, and if you are in a motor boat just slow down to a crawl on / close to the bank and as they arrive a window will mysteriously open in front of you as they go around.

It's been some years ago now, but I have seen a seal at Horning. Popular with the fishermen he was not!