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Wow his boat can teleport!!! Queues before Potter heigham bridge and comes out the other side of Worxham Bridge...

It was on a Janet my previous tablet computer committed suicide, last year during the 3RR. The USB skt is in the cabin below the helm position. My extension cable just reached the top of the helm dashboard. The boat rocked and the tablet launched itself down the companionway. I've got a longer extension cable ready for 1st June this year. I'll be happy with being loaned a Janet from Martham boats again for this years 3RR, I was quite impressed with them.. It not the purchase of a woody that would be a problem, it's the maintenance, it needs to be almost continuous on a woody.

Remember the sink water goes straight into the river.. Beautiful pictures , that'll be a nice place to moor in 18 days timewatching the sailing boats drift by, all with a red and white tape hanging from their boom or back stay.

Just looked at the long range forecast for the start of the race, this means it's not very reliable yet and anything can change.. Temperature 17C not too hot or cold.. Wind North North Easterly, not too bad, perfect is North Westerly as it blows everyone down the street out of Horning. That amount of North in it could make it interesting trying to get up the Ant.. Wind speed, 4mph, gusting 11mph, lets hope for plenty of gusts.. Good job after the first hour the tide will be with you, it could be an interesting Log Jam in Horning for that first hour though. Overnight the wind switches to SW 8mph min temp 10C Sunset is 21:08 but there is only 4% moon showing so even if there is clear skies, it's going to be a dark night for the race. Sunday's wind NW 11 mph better, but tacking all the way back to Horning..

The competitors documentation has been sent out, if you haven't received it, then Email.. the3riversrace@gmail.com

it's a general principle of British law it can't be back dated, you can't be prosecuted under a modern law for something that wasn't law when the incident happened. So you may have "grandfathers rights". For instance my 1984 landrover does not have to meet the latest emmission regulations , and yes it has got a more modern but not latest engine in it..

The web cams on the Horning SC site are beginging to come back to life for the race, the Acle bridge one is now looking at the bridge and the Martham one appears to be in an office at the moment.. https://horning-sailing.club/webcams.php

Oh he's definately Loco ... He's hand building O gauge track for his own layout..

if it's a light wind race and there is a log jam of boats early on, it will really hit the hot rods.. if it's at least a reaomsonable wind they shouldn't have too much problem. The slow boats if they can make it to Ant mouth out of the trees before being overtaken will greatly benefit.

The tea bar or the non runner? Our loco expert has been very successful with people bringing along locos that for some reason don't work. There is no charge for this, but he hasn't got parts, but will tell you where to get whats failed, or adjust anything for free that he can. Our tea bars are normally quite popular and normally have cake available. I'll sneak in an advert anywhere I can, I've put stuff on various model ralway forums about events on the Norfolk broads, which reminds me.. Have I mentions the 3RR on, RMWEB, the N Gauge Forum and Your Model Railway this year..

OOOh I think the cat is among the pidgeons this year. Reading a note at the other place . For many years it's been A Raters Punts and fast keel boats have been in the first groups to start. With broads cruisers and production boats last.. It seems from the notes I've read the order has been reversed, many cruisers first, A Raters and punts near the back with more cruisers. it looks like it's slowest boats to start first and fastest boats to start last This could be interesting, lots of overtaking required by the hot rods...

The count down continues, 21 days time it will all be over, so you'll be safe from the mad hoards for another year

Just a bump up as our open day at Hoveton Village hall is just 13 days away (panic !!!!! for us anyway)

Ah Reedling class Number 2 Siskin, on it's way on a down river race with Horning sailing club. Nothing to worry about, follow down the right hand bank , when the sailing boat in front turns away from the right hand bank, go forward, passing behind. If they come back for a second try at your side, don't worry, they'll turn away (might be close) they can't win their race if they've broken their boat by hitting you.. My day was however spent building a hard top for my trailer so I can transport my model railway to Hoveton Village hall for our Open day on 26th May 10:30-15:30. Sadly we have to charge £3:00 for entry (£2 for concessions) as we've got to pay for the hire of the hall..we should have 7 to 10 layouts (most running some under construction) our second hand stall, our loco repair expert if you've got a non runner, and a tea bar.

if you were to fit the numbers on the bow of an Elysian 27ft it would make them very difficult to see due to the overhang.

Ranger to hire boater you are being prosecuted for not moving from the 24hour mooring within 24 hours. Hire boater movers off.. Ranger to hire boater you are being prosecuted for moving your boat when it's heavy rain.. The nav regs are based on the sea going regs but are Not the same.. I find any torch or light coming the other way on a night whether moonlit or not destroys your night vision. I have quite happly sailed the 3 Rivers Race on a no moonlight night without hitting anything..

Well it's a week later So I'll just bump this up for anyone who missed it, roughly 100 boats have entered this year..

If you can't work out why the reference to two open days, it was due to the unpleasant weather and high winds on Saturday, so for safety no visitor sailing was carried out, but they were invited to a rerun on Monday. As it turned out my mistype of the 6th instead of the 4th turned out to be correct!!..

I've been through the area again the stripes of tar and gravel have worn away so at least it's a more comfortable drive. The main bit of failure is between the two main entrances to Stalham where there are clear channels through the tar and gravel through to the old tarmac, the road to the north of that to Stepping stone lane only has a minor patch of tar and gravel missing. The southern bit of tar and gravel road near the entrance to Richardsons isn't too bad, just a couple of minor bits where the tar hasn't stuck down. Meanwhile the man with the white spray can has been around, many local roads in the area have been marked out for patch repair. Particularly outside the Cremated Swan which has a large area marked out..

The stuff they've put down today is a disaster, the tar has not spread out and is in thin lines across the carriageway leaving thin ridges of gravel, this has left lots of loosing gravel to pile up, in other places none has stuck to the carriageway at all leaving a trench of shiny old tarmac between piles of loose stuff. I'm guessing the tar wasn't hot enough or the road surface too cold..

They've been throwing gravel at the road surface north of the Stalham it's disaster, it's not stuck down properly, it's lumpy there are gravel drifts of up to 6inches deep in places. Please please be careful going through there... There are roads works on the Stalham - Ingram road in Stalham just after the school, 3way traffic lights..

My insurance (nothing special arranged) stipulates no more than 1 month away at anytime but does not put a limit on how many times away..

Just heard a piece on the radio from Horning Sailing Club, it went well a good advertisment for the club, Seemingly 39,000 went to events round the country last year to try sailing.. Go on you know you want too

Well it's tomorrow so the final bummp, Also I believe Wally Webb on Radio Norfolk is off down to Horning sailing club this morning to do a piece on it.

Just a bump up as a reminder to those who may wish to visit on Saturday May the 4th