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Horning Regatta includes racing for all types of sailing craft except windsurfers and catamarans. Each day during the regatta there is a race starting at lunch time for sailing cruisers and another race for them around 16:00. Each of these, required this year two or three broads cruiser starts + a production cruiser start. (Production cruisers are yachts that don't meet the Broads cruiser regulations) Every Club day from march to October, on Black horse broad has sailing cruiser races and the down river races to the pubs at Thurne or Acle are well attended. So that's about an additional 12 race events for them Then of course there is the Three Rivers Race, in which I think there were 34 Sailing cruisers both Broads and Production that's about 1/3rd of the fleet. The Horning and Most other broads Sailing clubs do regular races for all sorts of racing from optimists through toppers and lasers to wayfarers. Then on the Keel boats such as white boats /rebels /yeoman/ brown boats (all around the 20 to 25ft length) then up to sailing cruisers.

Some better news from the Swan, http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/owners-of-ingham-swan-announce-rebuild-date-and-pop-up-menus-just-24-hours-after-pub-is-destroyed-1-5191879

My own particular hatred, is Broads tours going down the river with a disco on board blaring out the music from speakers facing out to the outside world.

I was doing the same as Ricardo (same engine but less hours) so only one oil change a year, however as mine became very unreliable I've changed it to a electric motor / batteries / generator /solar panels. I see no reason for me not continuing to service that lot myself. As for Hire craft, I would bet the official policy is that each time a hire boat comes in from a weeks hire, then an engineer will do all the checks/oil /water /filters etc But they will probably not do a full service "in season" as that would take the boats out of use... Having friends on the broads with their own motor boats I have so far not felt the need to join any RAC/AA equivalent service.

I drove up to that on Monday morning with the firemen still in action, as I pass it every day on the way to work. Sad to see the place go, I think the house nearest the corner was up for sale. The yellow blob to the left of the left most fireman is the for sale sign.. So that will give them even more grief. Very sad for those directly involved. For those less directly involved this is causing a major headache getting round it, this is the only two way road from Sea Palling if you wish to go directly to the A149. You can go south towards Somerton then to Martham or North through Happisburgh and back to Stalham or on to North Walsham. The local road alternatives are all tight single track and a nightmare to drive along with a lot of traffic going both ways.. It will be interesting to see what happens to the site(s) if the walls are still OK then they will be no doubt be rebuilt. If not then planning could be difficult on such a restricted site. I could see road restrictions going one for a couple of years or more...

Being steam railway enthusiast , from the headline I thought you were talking of the Barton House railway, http://www.bartonhouserailway.org.uk/, I knew it wasn't the Bure Valley Railway http://www.bvrw.co.uk/ because that's in Hoveton, like Barnes Brinkcraft.

For those who are interested and may visit Horning Sailing Club, and it's group of unpaid volunteers has achieved 5 stars

Sunday late afternoon in Horning , two women dancing around in bikinis on top of a multi story gin palace. what's unusual with that? the club outside thermometer was registering 13 C!!! chilly...

No I prefer a defender to a discovery

They are promising half the A1270 will be open by Christmas. A1270 being the official number for the NDR. The bit not opened will be from Wroxham Road to the A47, but they are promising that by March...(I bet that's weather permitting). So from Christmas I'll be using a section of the NDR to work every day if it's open...

My mobile home faces out over fields for some miles. An opening double glazed toplight was hit and broken (inner and outer panes). We never found a round, but what else other than some sort of round could have done the damage? On the other hand, I don't know the area of the incident, but do they have bird scarers in the area? We've had them going just about all summer as they harvest one crop and plant another. Would a tourist know the difference between a bird scarer and some sort of weapon sound?

As I trundle up and down the river doing rescue boat duties over the years I've picked up many a mop with handle (and many other things) normally with no Identifying marks for ownership. I'm betting some holidaymaker lost his mop and nicked yours... The Sailing club I used to belong to In Milton Keynes, was raided by thieves who had seen the club from the M1, they hired a Luton van . Then came and broke in taking many laser /topper masts and associated laser /topper bits and pieces and also loaded some toppers and lasers into the van. They then went up north west somewhere to try to sell the gear.. Needless to say some men turning up in a Luton van trying to sell all that kit, rang alarm bells with the dealers who phoned the police. Shortly after the men were arrested and the kit returned. I don't think the owners of the kit even lost a days sailing!! Even though Norfolk and particularly North Norfolk has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. Crime does happen, mostly I think by outsiders. Every so often there is an outbreak of outboard theft which seems to start Martham way...

That is a possibility, but probably means getting a tailor made cover at even more vast expense than a good quality tarpaulin.

Yes they were for real, they were at one time being sold no questions asked to people who were using them for smuggling operations. I believe that particular company got closed down, whether that particular one was one of theirs or an innocent company I don't know.

Just thought of an interesting problem for me having an all over cover for the winter.. That's not going to make the solar panels very well, I need them to keep the batteries charged. Hmm time for a rethink....

if you go to chrome you'll just have constant requests from windows to switch back to explorer!! or Edge(YUK)

I see the headlines changed, it originally said " man rescues woman after falling into the river wensum" Pretty clever that, rescuing a woman after you've fallen in the water!! Since there has been no update saying woman dies I can only assume she luckily has survived...

A teacher's starting pay is about the same as my current pay, after 43 years working.....

A lady teacher ( from Norfolk) I knew was on her honeymoon in Australia, half way up Ayres rock (Uluru) she heard those dreaded words... Miss! MISS!!!

Grendels remarks about getting the harvest in are correct, I was going spud picking in the summer holidays in the 1970s. One problem with making a major changes to the holiday season would be the destruction of another way of life. The most common proposal I've seen from teachers is to make all major holidays the same length, of about 3 or 4 weeks. Do you fancy taking your holidays in October half term? You may wonder about my comment of destruction of way of life. At the moment should you be fit enough, you can sail at regattas through out the summer holidays. Moving the summer holidays around or shortening them would mean much reduced attendances at regattas and other summer events as you would end up with more events on at the same time.

I see boats trussed up like a Christmas turkey for the winter. But mostly with the normal canopy still on underneath. I wonder if removing the normal cover and then putting a tarpaulin on might be a good idea?

What do you mean blast from the past? it's still on now, we have that on the radio every Friday night at Broadland Model Railway Club.

I left 1988 so almost 30 years, it's the best pension they did, AFPS 75, they reduced it when AFPS 05 came in and it's been reduced again with AFPS 15. It's nowhere near enough to retire on, as I was medically down graded and booted out after 12 years.

That's it I'm now a grumpy old sod, agreed with almost everything he said. Which reminds me I must send off for my military pension..

For those of us from GWR area a Halt was an unmanned stop, whether it was a request halt, or a programmed halt. normally with a sleeper built platform and a tin shed for shelter The shortest lived halt, I believe, was at Sutton Staithe, it lasted less than 2 years... which I think didn't get a real platform or shelter..