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Horning sailing club is almost entirely run by volunteer effort, the only paid person is the cleaner who comes in after each sailing event. Only if there is no member with the necessary skills / equipment, are outside contractors used. This is why club membership is only about £130 for a family for a year. several times less than say Wroxham club. Ps If you'd have put the question on this forum I could have answered it for you...

Noting this is sailing, The outer Hebridies on a inland Loch, The Broads, Cheddar Sailing club, The Broads, The North Sea off Scarborough. The Broads, Cheddar sailing club, The Broads, The Minch (outer Hebridies) The Broads, Kielder water, The Broads From Ullapool to Blyth, Northumberland The Broads Dovecot / Haversham sailing club (Milton Keynes) The Broads, Shotwick lake sailing club (Chester) The Broads Dovecot / Haversham sailing club Gull island Pond (the Falklands) Dovecot / Haversham sailing club The Broads North Hykeham sailing club (Lincoln) The Broads Then I moved to the Broads... Because of the best sailing..

and as usual they got it wrong, the captain being knocked off with his conning tower...

The Jarrold map does not show the Aylsham line which closed to passengers 1952 (1982 for freight). Nor the North Walsham to Great Yarmouth Beach station line which closed 1959, But it shows the old main road through Potter Heigham so it's before construction of the road and new bridge on the old railway line, the old railway bridge being demolished 1968. So it's pretty certain the map is 1960 - 1970

The current Horning Sailing Club clubhouse was built in 1963, and I think the next section up river was cleared of BIG trees about the same time. So the photo itself is probably late 1950s..

yep..

The max width depends on the rivers it wants access to , Part 1 (Beam Restrictions) (a) Vessels having a beam of 3.8 metres (12ft 6ins) or less. No restriction. (b) Vessels having a beam exceeding 3.8 metres (12ft 6ins). River Wensum: Upstream of Foundry Bridge River Yare: Upstream of Trowse Eye Bird’s Dyke and Surlingham Fleet Dyke Rockland Boat Dyke, Fleet Dyke and Short Dyke Langley Dyke Hardley Dyke River Chet: The entire waterway River Waveney: Geldeston Boat Dyke River Bure: Upstream of “The Rising Sun”, Coltishall Upton Dyke Hermitage Dyke, Acle River Ant: The entire waterway and its navigable branches including Barton Broad River Thurne: Upstream of Dungeon Corner Catfield Dyke and its branches Waxham Cut Meadow Dyke Candle Dyke Womack Dyke and Womack Water

A careful choice of words he used.. The maximum size of boats hasn't increased, the number of maximum size and big boats has increased. There were always a few big ones, now there are many. They've often got much wider too.. Yes boats are taller some yards have deliberately given up any chance of a boat going through Potter or Wroxham Bridges.

It was on the weeks forecast on countryfile yesterday

There's another big storm forecast next Friday....

Well the big event was down at the model railway club behind Haines Boat builders on Friday night, I could hear the asbestos roof coming adrift and bits sliding across the roof before crashing down behind the building. Luckily that's the landlords responsibility. During the evening there was a big crash from their yard, as something big got blown over. Didn't stop me planting about 200 individual 4X 4 inch fence posts (in 1:148 scale) (that's 0.6mmX0.6mm) probably over a 1000 to go....

well, they are available elsewhere and on the internet.. Richo's I think should at least get a copy as it was both their boats involved.. It's behavior I've seen many times particularly on the moorings between the Swan Pub in Horning and the sailing club. I've several times had to go over and show tourists how to get a boat off a lee shore, and even when the wind is not blowing how to get out from between two other boats. I bet many other club members have also done so over the years..

Interesting report on TV this morning. In China the area that makes most Christmas "tat" and decorations, report orders down 30%. I think this is going to mean a shortage come the time, as parents will throw money at it, to make Christmas "special" for the semi locked down kids..

My day? well my weekend including Friday evening Came home dodging broken branches and soggy roads.. to find in our garden: Several healthy branches of an oak tree pinning down the mains triple twisted insulated cable to next door and the farm beyond. The biggest was over 18 inches in diameter.... (power stayed on!) Next doors telephone cable snapped on to the ground, The marquee the boat lives in, stripped of it's covering which was wrapped up with ropes by SWMBO. During a first cup of coffee, something flashed by the front window of the house.. On donning full waterproofs and riggers boots I went outside to find we'd lost three leading edge roof tiles and they'd taken down the front of house guttering which was what I saw go past. I retrieved the plastic gutter from the road, but the clay tiles were destroyed on impact. A survey of the garden, now I was rigged up, showed a tree stump demolished, many branches down. Some smaller fir trees that had survived years are now at 45degrees.. UK power networks were phoned.. lots of questions including a request for photos, and repeated warnings to stay away from the cable.. Saturday, Cleared branches under cable as they were on the cess pit covers, on which I then placed big plant pots, I didn't want UK Power coming in with a Hiab and parking it on the covers, fishing one out of the cess pit would be awkward.. Covered the boat with plastic, weighted and roped down, cleared the area of anything of value and the wood supplies were removed to the garage and wood shed.. While going round to the neighbours to discuss tell her that UK power was organised, noticed we'd lost another 3 tiles one landing almost intact, that was retrieved and now needs measurement so I can find replacements. It appears not to be a common tile. From about 16:00 till 21:30 the power went off, we were just preparing to sleep in the living room, as the multifuel stove meant it was the only warm room when the power came back on.. Sunday, UK Power arrived a bit later than forecast, as they found another tree on the cables of our road on the way to us.. As it was they decided to remove the branches with large pruning saws on fibreglass poles which plug together. unfortunately the last branch cut released the tension in the wire and catapulted onto and destroyed one of the plant pots, but at least we weren't fishing for it in the cess pit... the guys were from Sussex A bit later found two electricity hiabs outside our house, went out to see them, they were lost, trying to find a certain house without power, which was the farm a bit further on. These guys were from Wales!!! So I then informed the neighbour it was cleared, so she phoned (by mobile) to get the telephone people out.. They arrived 20:00 and unbeknown to me laid a temporary cable across the garden.. which I tripped over when taking the dog for his morning patrol at 06:00 this morning..

I don't know if the model shop in Norwich does metal sections..http://www.greateasternmodels.co.uk/ or Buoys toys in Cromer (I also don't know if they've got metal sections) https://en-gb.facebook.com/buoystoysandmodels/ I don't think the Bure valley railway shop (Aylsham)does metal sections they are more of a beginners shop. But very good in what they do for buying commercial stuff from http://www.burevalleymodels.com/ A good UK mail order supplier is https://www.eileensemporium.com/materials-for-modellers/category/metal-sections I've used them many times for various bits not available locally. Squires tools have a strange collection of Items, I've only bought stuff off them at shows. but they were very good.. http://www.squirestools.com/

RMweb is definitely the Biggest UK forum, although they have contributors from around the world. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php There are specialist sections for American and Japanese railways. Narrow gauge and of course all the big 4 UK railways and BR in it's various guises up to the present day.. All gauges are covered from T gauge 1:450 scale up to 7 1/2 inch gauge live steam. If however you are modelling in N gauge I can also recommend the " N gauge forum" https://ngaugeforum.co.uk/ and in the odd chance you are modelling in EM gauge then https://www.emgs.org/ Should you live local, I can recommend Broadland Model railway club (I'm there most Friday evenings) the other main day is Tuesday evenings, although with covid there are 6 person bubbles most nights of the week. http://broadlandmodelrailwayclub.co.uk/ Railway clubs and shows throughout the country can be found on.. https://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/events/exhibitions

The Wayford road works have cleared, 3 days of traffic lights for..... Some manhole cover refitting .... on the pavement...(and there's some grass between pavement and road).

Tesco's do the deliveries as well..

Good timing, Wayford Bridge closes Nov 2nd for 24 hour road works. It will be a bit noisy then.. https://www.edp24.co.uk/motoring/road-closures-norfolk-stalham-wayford-bridge-1-6817276 Enjoy your holiday..

Should I have said radiogram?

Funnily enough they're playing the Devils Gallop by Charles Williams on the wireless at the moment.. (Theme tune for Dick Barton)

New road works on the A149 near Wayford bridge., this time it's between the two road entrances of the Hotel with traffic lights either side.

I too have sailed a GP14 a couple of times though not in Norfolk, it's a great boat to sail and good for the broads. If you get into racing, come up and join in our annual regatta at Horning, first week in August most years.. That will teach you about close quarter sailing!!

Oh yes , anyone visiting Neatishead and the other sites, that were likely to go above ground level had to visit the control room for a briefing, for which they signed. It didn't work all the time though, we had painters in and one came in for the sign on next day. The other went directly to the aerial, one of the nodding height finders. He climbed the Aerial without permission. Anyone could have pressed an operate button and thrown him off, and those radars still transmitted when parked. So he was heavily radiated..

Not quite true as once a month, we actually did do a full power run at Neatishead, normally at stupid O'clock in the morning. It wouldn't have blown the tubes, it would have severely interfered with reception. The T 85 At full power with everything fully tuned to max could put out 60 M Watts, we normally only ran on 2 of the 12 transmitters though.. The T84 at max power was only 5 M Watts, The HF200 nodding Height finders were only, 2.5 M Watts. As it was on Normal power I lived a mile away on the back road to Hoveton, and it interfered with my cassette deck. After Neatishead I was Posted to work on the T88 /T89 radars essentially a mobile T84 on the back of an Artic and it's sister height finder. There the Tea Bar was lined with tinfoil connected to earth and painted over as the radar would blow up the TV's Electronics. Luckily by careful positioning of the TV we could get it to see the TV Transmitter on Clettraval but be shielded from the radar.. We could see the Clettraval Transmitter from the base, you only needed a 2 inch piece of wire in the TV aerial socket to get a picture!! The electronics store room there was less than 100 ft from the radar transmitter and the fluorescent tubes used to come on as the radar swept through