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TheQ
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Thanks To all who stuck to the river banks and avoided us as we zigzagged up and down the river.
It was a good weeks sailing if unusually windy..
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Thank you to all those who patiently kept to the river banks and put up with us Ziggy zagging all over the place for regatta week..
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Starts today, it appears we will be on the broad Saturday and Sunday...
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Refreshments available all day, very good they are too.
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Less than a week to go so time to bump this up again.
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Just a bump up, two weeks to go.
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13 hours ago, ChrisB said:
Not Gulls.
Wrong mast...the gull problem is at UEA. The Horning area problem is due to decommission of a mast at Neatishead. Maybe due to the re-siting of the Mundesley Golf Ball??????
Nobody seems to know why at present.
The mast was on RAF Neatishead, it's having to be moved due to the radar returning from Trimmingham. The big mast is in the way of the radar .
The golf ball itself wasn't moved, a new one was built at Neatishead, a section of the old Trimmingham golf ball is already in the museum.
The phone mast on the back of the sailing club was removed I think when they put up the mast at Neatishead.
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My weekend, it was keelboat weekend at Horning, 2 races Saturday, 4 races Sunday.
Blue Moon went surprisingly well, she was able to keep up with the opposition up wind, which is good for a boat 7% slower on handicap, down wind the opposition's longer length, they have a hull of 20ft against BMs 16ft, really paid off and BM really got left behind.
Had a good tussle with LizG at one point.. as we went tack for tack up river ...
I believe Liz won her boats class for the event..
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Advice 2, ok I forgot a bit...
Getting through the start line,
Every so often you'll hear a buzzer. That's 10 minutes to first start, 5 minutes, then go, and every 5 minutes after that till we've all started.
If you are coming up river try to slow down, then go forward as the buzzer goes, then you are going up following a start, not trying to get through lots of boats circling around.
If you are coming down river and see lots of boats rushing around on the start line , hold back wait till the buzzer goes and they start. Go forward if you see a gap , on the bank. If they are coming towards you try and hold still or keep very very slow let them sail around you then go forward.
The start line is from the box on the top of the club house to a lettered board on the other side of the river.
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There was a year in which a house close behind the club had some fire works , but it's more likely to be the Wroxham club you are thinking of as they have much more extensive grounds than we have, and can fire them off away from the boats.
Oh by the way Wroxham have their Regatta the week before ours , they prefer you keep round the edges of their broad but keep out 20 ft from the river side of the broad that is shallow.
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5 minutes ago, Cal said:
Did they have fireworks on Saturday night?
To my knowledge Horning SC have never had fireworks..
Fireworks , expensive boat covers and sails are not a good mix..
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Advice,
Quiet times to go through. though you are free to go through any time should you wish.
Before 09:30,
There are less boats out between 12:30 and 14:00,
After 17:00.
During racing please keep right. This means within 6 ft of the bank preferable less, you will not run aground from Dydlers mill to the clubhouse even if you are touching the bank, though don't drive into the bays on the southern side of the river, we sail with a 3 ft keel hanging down below and don't hit bottom.
Why 6ft because that's just less than the width of the majority of our boats. If you motor any further out, then you'll end up with boats both sides of you.
Please do not weave around , we are much more manouverable than you are, just keep it slow and steady . .
We ask our Sailing boats not to push motorboats out into the river, there are times however when our boats may have to use the river just in front of you. So you may have to stop.
Please be cautious especially during the first race series, from 09:25 to 10:30, this race, as it's quietist on the river, we allow to juniors out in their first regatta. Some are not confident and are likely to get it wrong, we do have extra rescue boats out for that one..
When boats are sailing they will appear to sailing towards the side of your boat. , Don't worry they will turn away, their boats are much more fragile than any motorboat. They will however get within a few inches of your boat. We sail within 6 inches of each other, it's quite normal.
Please bring in any overhanging items , fishing rods, flag poles and most especially Legs,they are especially vulnerable. ,
Ensure towed dinghies are tied up properly, those on a long single line, may swing out from behind and capture one of our boats... It has happened.
In the unlikely event of you getting involved with an incident, make a note of the other boats, sail number, registration number and name. Then as soon as possible visit the club or contact it,. Then the club will put you in contact with the other boat. We all have insurance, Contacting us a month later saying it was a white boat with white sails is no help to anyone.
most of all please enjoy sailing through our chaos.
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It's that time again, time to put out warnings of around 100 sailing boats from 8 ft to 45ft, helm ages from 8 years old to over 100. Sailing from, Horning sailing club at Swan in Corner for a mile and a half up river, to Dydlers mill, occasionally up the next straight to Woodcutters dyke.
First timings.
Normally Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st July would be on Black Horse broad, but excessive weed means it's highly likely it will be on the river.
Saturday, first race series starts 14:00, but boats will be on the river around the clubhouse from about 13:30,
Each race series may consist of up to 7 starts at 5 minute intervals, each race lasts about an hour.
A second race series will start after the first has completed so probably around 15:30.
Sunday.
4 race series, same number of starts, first about 10:30, next 12:00, third 14:00, fourth, 15:30.
Regatta week itself, 1st to the 4th August 2023. all races about an hour except the big cruisers which could last up to 3 hours.
Race series 1,
09:25, boats out from 09:00, up to 4 starts, at 5 minute intervals, Note this includes many juniors on their first ever regatta just 8 years old..
Race series 2, 10:30, up to 7 starts,
Lunch time 12:30 cruiser race, boats up to 45ft, number of starts depends on the number of entries, normally 3 starts. This race may go as far as Woodcutters dyke if the wind is in the right direction.
Also there may be a 1 hour race for probably starting around 13:00 smaller boats
Race series 3, 14:00, 7 starts
Race Series 4, 15:30 7 starts,
17:00 two starts, special races, such as juniors in fixed Keelboats, service / retired service personnel trophy,
So that's the programme as far as I know, I'll update you should there be changes.
Next posting , the advice.
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A larger boat with bow thrusters is easier than the many smaller boats without. Most difficulties are getting in and out of moorings where the thrusters really help.
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1978, when you finish training in the RAF you fill in a form with three choices of posting.
In the trade I was in there was,
Saxa Vord in the Shetlands,
Benbecula, in the Hebrides
Bishops court in Northern Ireland
Boulmer in Northumberland
Staxton Wold, near Scarborough,
Neatishead, I think you know where that is,
West Drayton near Uxbridge.
And the impossible dream Troodos in Cyprus..
So I put Neatishead at the top of my list, I've read Arthur Ransom... to my surprise I got it.
Most of the course got West Drayton, a concrete monstrosity of a place which was also a training camp for scopies...
1979 the RAF sailing association had a dinghy training course at Horning, I've sailed from there ever since.
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My day,
Got to HSC about 09:00, retrieved my boat from the other side of the river, did some repairs.
While doing that got asked to cut a hole in Hemsby life boat** which I did.
Meanwhile an ambulance appears at the Village staithe dinghy dyke. Then a van with red yellow hazard stripes, then two coast guard 4x4 . Then the broads rangers boat and later the police boat.eventually Hemsby new lifeboat appears in HSC carpark gets launched and disappears down river,, stopping by the ambulance on the way.
Some time later it reappears stopping by the ambulance again, goes to put car park is recovered and disappears..
Even later a helimed fly's over circles then
And somewhere down river, then reappears fly's off in the Direction of Norwich and the hospital..
Nothing yet on the Hemsby lifeboat pages.
**** Oh hole in Hemsby lifeboat? The sailing club now own Hemsby's old one and it's going to be used as a workboat for the club + standby rescue boat.
Anyway today's reason for being at HSC, it was pursuit race day. Two 1 hour races you start at a time derived from your boats handicap, slowest boats first fastest last , and if every thing is equal you should all finish at the same time.. it never happens of course, and today favoured the light dinghies as a strong incoming tide slowed the displacement boats.
but I was happy with my boats performance, much better than last week after some changes to the setup.
Tomorrow we have a down river race to the Thurne lion have lunch then race back again.
I believe there is also racing by EACC at Thurne tomorrow which might make thing interesting down there.
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They got sacked, some years ago most of their reporter's were got rid of, 95% of what's in the EDP now are "puff" pieces put in by someone for publicity.
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So what happened in Wroxham? The article was all about Hoveton..
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On 18/06/2023 at 19:09, Smoggy said:The modern suction excavators are very good for shifting ground without cutting pipes and cables.
Try that down in Horning especially near the Ferry, and you'll find the river level going down...
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One of the farmers up our road dug horizontally from the road for a new field entrance...
He cut the telephone lines to this end of the village, they were buried not even six inches under the verge surface, and above both field and road height.
When sewers were fitted on this road, it can't have been far under the surface, in the winter you can see track of the sewers, as they frost up first..
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First day I've managed to sail in about a month. Contrary to the forecast it was sunny all day.
The sailing was OK, various technical failures meant the racing positions weren't.
LizG was on rescue boat duty with others.
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10 hours ago, Hylander said:When we lived in Bahrain it hardly ever rained but there was always water in the taps, granted you could not drink it but we went to a depot to collect the drinking water in a huge tank. Well it seemed huge to me, I was only 10. I do believe the drinking water was desalinated.
And just across the water in Saudi bottled water cost more than petrol.
Some years ago they sent us a letter saying they were going to fit a water meter here.. , then they cancelled... We've never heard from them since.
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A,new video of one boats race.
My Day
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My day.. no My week, Horning regatta week. It went well, Blue Moon went better than expected , she even one two races and a third place silver spoon... LizG won several races....