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Went to GY this morning no road works. Came home just after midday, traffic light controlled works right on Potter Heigham new bridge.. No idea how long that will last.

Of the show, I was on a bridge over the upper stretches of the river a couple of weeks back, it seemed a lot narrower than the video showed. I know a couple of those that spoke / sailed on the show, I'm sure some Micky taking is due. The helm of the Yare and Bure one design is a regular sailor at Snowflake Sailing club at Horning.. The race on Wroxham Broad, I think was staged, unless it was a Beer can race, too many different classes of boats in a single race, certainly not representative of the normal racing there. Horning, they showed a clip of the Thursday afternoon sailing school , but no mention of what was going on.. again I recognised people on the water.. The high shots over the Southern comfort and sailing club were on a different day to that of the sailing school... yes disappointed at no mention of Acle and below, less scenic I know but there's a lot of history and interest down there.

Horning has been a town for many years, the first edition of Horning Sailing club was called Horning Town Sailing Club and that was formed in 1910....

Now I remember why I went for a plastic fantastic, having maintained much smaller wooden boats I knew I didn't have the time nor money for a wooden broads cruisers maintenance. Good luck with your rebuild though.. Odd fact about Lovejoy... The very first person to speak on the series, came from Horning, Nick Gardener, who was a very junior person at radio Norfolk, he was selected to speak the scene setting words at the start of the first show. Nick's now a TV producer in London but still escapes to sail at Horning when he can.. Helped me by my first boat a laser dinghy he did.

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Doesn't surprise me I passed it this morning and there is very little sign of the big hole being filled in..

They are of course motorised therefore come under motorboat regulations. So will require a boat safety test , insurance, Broads tax, stick to speed limits and give way to sailing craft and rowing boats.

There's also clubs at Olney and the Stewartby clay pits.. The Stewartby lake must be a lot more pleasant now you don't have the brickworks smoke blowing across the lake.. . We were Originally at Dovecote lake which is the one Nearest the M1, but that had permission for motorboats, so we got turfed off of there to move to Haversham, and they built a brand new clubhouse for us. A couple of years later someone bought all the lakes off ARC construction who dug them for gravel to construct the M1.. That person then put in for planning permission for golf clubs hotels etc, only to be told it's green belt NO chance.. So he was in difficulty, so he offered the clubhouse and lake to the club for IIRC £140,000.. The club accepted the offer and then got a grant from the lottery for £100,000... So now the club is one of the most financially secure in the country, owning their own facilities and sailing waters. Most clubs are on rented land and don't own the waters.. I was on the committee at the start of the above. The Milton Keynes club had great difficulties, they were on Willen Lake and had their club house sold out from under them, which became a commercial watersports centre..

Actually the priority bit in the New Highway code has always existed on the broads, Simplifying it a bit.. Motorboats give way to sailors, and rowing boats, Sailors give way to rowing boats.. Vessels going across the rivers have to give way to those going along the rivers..

Well we can't all be perfect.. Welcome to the site from a Former Member of Dovecote / Haversham Sailing club at MK, Now a member of Horning Sailing Club and Snowflake sailing clubs . Well actually I was a member of HSC and SSC during my time at Haversham /Dovecote.

At the moment that's it for 2022 Model railway shows in our area.. Hopefully more will turn up later...

Thetford & District Model Railway Society - Model Railway Show Sat 9th July 2022 Charles Burrell Centre, Staniforth Road, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 3LH OPENING TIMES: 10am-4pm ADMISSION: Adults £5.00 Concessions £5.00 Family £10.00

Next the remaining big show in the area .. Norwich Model Railway Club - Railway Exhibition Sat 9th April 2022 Hellesdon High School, Middletons Lane, Norwich, Norfolk NR6 5SB OPENING TIMES: 10am to 4:30pm ADMISSION: Adults £6.00 15 layouts + trade stands and demonstrations..

Ok It's time to Start this years list, many have been cancelled, including our own.. Though ours (Broadland Model Railway Club) was not cancelled for Covid, but the hall is no longer available. Also our club open days are a bit undecided yet again due to hall availability... For instance Hoveton Village hall is a covid vaccination centre at the moment.. So the first one is a joint open day by Thetford MRC and Bury St Edmonds MRC . Thetford & District Model Railway Society - Club Open Day Sat 12th March 2022 OPENING TIMES: 10am-4pm Charles Burrell Centre, Staniforth Road, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 3LH

Always used a depth sounder on every boat I had except the boat I have now.. What is the depth sounder? It says "we've run aground again" what is the depth sounder? The Crew... Why not on the current sailing boat?? It's a single hander...

Went through there this morning at about 06:15, BIg hole now with bracing to stop it collapsing in.. Maybe they're making another Broad...

How about some flint and stone...

Paddle boarders I don't have a problem with, you can see them, though paddling through the middle of a regatta in the middle of a river isn't the best Idea. Which is why on rescue boat duties I go and ask them to stick to the bank. I've not had a refusal once I've told them why.. Horning sailing club even has a paddle boarders section. What is worse are swimmers, swimming down the river Towing a little orange float, the float is hard enough to see, let alone someone wearing all black wetsuit in front of it. As for rule changes No I'm not expecting any ... But what we do get is new "interpretations" of what is written in law..

14 miles each way + standing at the counter that's an hour, 4 miles each way to and from her's 8 Miles, say 20 minutes total, to that's 4.3 hours £200/4.3 = £46.5 an hour..

3 hours work + travelling time + getting the pieces.. yep £200 would be the going price for that these days. in almost any business...

September to November it's quieter on all the broads. the kids have gone back to school. Just avoid half term. There are a lot more places to go on the northern, rather than the southern broads. Note, if you want to go to GY, stop at Acle and get the bus or train. The river south east of Stokesby is fairly boring, and more importantly mooring on the Broads Authority moorings at GY is a real handful except at high or low tide as the current is very strong there. Although I've only used Martham boats for 3 separate one night stays, I'm highly impressed with them, they have everything I want..

Too much christmas pud for my legs to support I think...

I have a big Head.. yeah You Knew that... Specs only just reach over my ears anyway (the cheap ones) putting two sets on is not an option. , so I use a magnifier lamp like Grendal's or... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Headband-Magnifier-Fozela-Head-mounted-Magnifications/dp/B01MG7IT6I/ref=asc_df_B01MG7IT6I?tag=bingshoppinga-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80745442135209&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584345017056572&psc=1 Mine's not that brand but it's extremely similar..

My day, My Week, I'd like to talk about paint...... OK moderators, this on a sailing boat not a motor cruiser.. Well I've had a disaster.. The last coat of paint I put on Blue Moon's hull, has not gone hard after several weeks and in places has not stuck on properly.. So the decision was to strip it off and start again. My fault ? Or the manufacturer? It's not a well known brand of marine paint I used, it is much cheaper than say international paints. Anyway I've bought a can of Toplac to replace it with, it's a stronger light blue than I wanted. (squall blue) but I'm not messing with it, it will be applied as per the instructions. So the decision was to strip the soft paint off and start again. First I tried a hot air gun and scraper.. 40mph winds from the warm south defeated that.. Then I tried a sander with conventional paper... Paper clogged up almost instantly Then I tried non clog sanding mesh.. it clogged up instantly. So at this point I got aggressive, and angle grinder With a scotch bright sanding pad.. That worked , I cleared the hull of the soft paint in one day, not too many extra deep scrapes and none through the glassfibre, just through the hull smoothing filler. (The hull is a glassfibre / plywood/ glassfibre sandwich). I looked like a snowman after that.. The next day the scrapes were filled. After a day off due to rain , the hull was sanded using the conventional sand paper.. lots of it.. I looked like a snowman after that.. The next day, the whole hull was given a coat of VCtar2, with second coats on the leading edge of the keel and rudder.. unfortunately I've run out of VCtar2, and the chandler's closed until Wednesday. I want to put another coat of VCtar2 below the waterline.. So today the plastic covers have gone back on, we have a reversal in weather forecast from Wednesday, cold freezing weather from the north.. As it is I couldn't continue to work on the hull this week, towards the end of working on the boat my left knee gave way, in great pain, it did it again late yesterday evening, and again this morning trying to come downstairs..

Ye here we go again road works already.. Usual place Wroxham, on the Norwich road, just up slope of the Loynes car park.. Appears to be sewage / drainage works there's a big pump there.. Traffic lioght controlled.