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Sadly the other boats just driving past doesn't surprise me at all, over the years I've rescued many Hire boats (and the odd non competing sailing boat, while I'm in one of HSCs rescue boats. Often they've had many go past while they are appealing for help (usually because they have no mobile signal). I've not had a Mr Fixit on board but have been asked to Assist the Police and had them on board looking for a particular Hire day boat (later found abandoned)

It's just over a month to our annual show in Aylsham, so if you are out in your boats tie up at the moorings by the railway bridge at Hoveton take a stroll up to the BVR and... By a ticket on the BVR From Wroxham and Hoveton Station and get entry to the show for free!! http://www.bvrw.co.u...el-rail-express If you wish to travel by car... Broadland Model Railway Club's ( http://s643945335.websitehome.co.uk/ ) Annual Exhibition at Alysham. Jubilee Centre, Norwich Road, Aylsham, Norfolk NR11 6JG 7th October 2017, 10:00 to 16:00 Entry, £4 Adults, £3 Children, £3 Concessions Limited Disabled parking on site. ALL others at the Bure Valley Railway, Aylsham Station, Norwich Road, Aylsham, Norfolk, NR11 6BW (300 yards) The 2017 model railway exhibition sponsored by the Bure Valley Railway will be held again in the Jubilee Centre, Aylsham, NR11 6JG on Saturday 7th October. There will be models of different gauges and sizes. These range from N gauge to 00 gauge with model steam and diesel traction as the theme. Exhibitors will come from the surrounding counties of East Anglia. The exhibition owes much of its success to the catering support given by the ladies. They do a magnificent job providing refreshments for the visitors and lunches for the exhibitors, traders & our volunteer helpers. One of the BMRC members is offering a “Loco Doctor” service this year. If you have a loco that needs attention then bring it along for a once over and advice. There is no charge for this service. EXHIBITORS. OO Gauge Billingborough 00 Binegar 00 Broadfield 00 16.5mm and 4mm:1ft Cato Pass 00 East Park Depot 00 East Becton EM 4mm/ft Ebridge Mill 00 4mm Fine scale Terminus All Change 00/HO 34th Street HO Thomas 2 00 N Gauge Buda N 1:160 Charleston N Harnser”s Loke N Oma Park N Thunder Mountain American N Trenance Quay N 2mm 009 Hawkins Tower Narrow Gauge 009 narrow Gauge TRADE STANDS Bure Valley Model Shop Joe Lock Model Railways Bob Pearman Books Train Terrain David Rowlands OTHERS Stands Advent Modellers Malcolm Cooper D.C.C. Demonstration and advice

did someone mention electronic pipes?

Now they've dredged it is, The bigger broads sailing cruisers stick to the channel all the way up to Hickling sailing club. Those who go astray in the wrong places can stop fairly rapidly. Those who know the broad know where else they can go. Before the dredging we were hitting mud in the channel while drawing 3ft.

This is the system my Elysian is roughly based on. http://worcesternb.blogspot.co.uk/ My boat is unlikely to go to Lithium batteries I don't think there is a need for lithiums on a motorboat, hiding conventional batteries with their size/weight on a motor boat, is not a problem. At the moment I use conventional lead acid traction batteries. I'd probably go for advanced Glass mat, Odyssey batteries if I were to change at the moment. http://www.odysseybattery.com/ To My knowledge my Elysian was not moored at Dilham, I bought it about 16 years ago from NYA Horning and it's remained in Horning for Mooring ever since.

Another vote for the Elysian 27 Here, well again I'm biased, ours is a centre cockpit, Which in it's hire days was a 5 berth (crowded!!!) it has the advantage of when there are 4 on board they are well separated at night!! If we are going out as a couple or me as a single, the forward cabin becomes the bedroom, the after cabin the living room / kitchen. As for single handed I regularly do so, if I'm coming into a awkward mooring I take the mooring ropes and lead them both back / forward to the centre cockpit well before trying to moor and step off with both in my hands. We've had no bother taking her through Potter or Wroxham bridges. Bow thrusters, I won't be going to the expense of fitting one , but if we had one I'd use it, certainly not how "Forth Bridge" was using hers yesterday... steering by bow thruster...

I achieved just 3 on the list, The beaches of the Hebridies, well I lived there, Walking Exmoor, I was practicing for Ten Tors And um.... something about the Broads. I did live near Weston Super Mud, But successfully avoided the slot machines. And Finally I have been across Clifton suspension bridge, while not walking or in a motor vehicle.....I was in a pram (a very long time ago..)

I got timed out modifying the above, so here we go again. The motor boat is a Elysian 27 centre cockpit. Under the floor of the center cockpit The arrangement is, Genny on the port side, diesel tank on the starboard. 10kw electric motor, 3phase, in the aft middle, with a U of batteries around the sides and front. The electronic controller, is below the helm on the port side, a box covering forms a nice footrest. Just to the right of the wheel is the control panel, with key switch, battery level, Genny start /stop and a couple of alarms. There are 4 big battery switches just to the left of the helmsmans leg. Due to lack of time, my chargers are not yet fitted, 4 off CTEK 25A chargers, at 14.2V. That's only about 6A at 230V including losses. Inside a wardrobe the other side of the bulk head is the solar panel controller, for the two panel on the forward cabin roof and the two panels on the aft cabin roof. At the moment the batteries on their own would get me to Potter from Horning but not all the way back, if my pockets ever get recharged, then further batteries would be bought to extend the range. I would not expect someone to move off a mooring so I could charge up if they had no where to go, nor would I expect someone to unplug if hooked up. If they were moored by a post and it was not in use then I would hope they would allow me to tie up alongside to recharge. Paul, 16A at approximately 14.2V charging voltage, is less than 1 Amp at 230V coming down the shore power cable ( before losses)

Well I expected there to be problems sometime getting charged up, so I've got something like this, under the floor

Looking a the picture I suspect they are rounding the buoy in front of the red sailed boat, then bearing away to the right of the picture. This will leave the hire boat no where to go unless he stops but that will mean the sailing boat behind him will have to go round the hire boat. Meanwhile you have other sailing boats coming back the other way on starboard tack, likely to cross to windward also blocking the hire boats forward progress.

It cant be that strong most of them have their topsails up. Hmm now why do I advise when people who go into the Broad while we are racing to keep to the bank....

I should also point out that Nelson had several among his crew of ethnic origin who were rescued from ships he had captured. She just needs to look down at the base of the Monument in London.

Well done to the Ranger, I suspect the picture of the Packman was an EDP stock picture.. I also wish they would stop putting out the lie, that the waters of the Broads and Rivers are ALWAYS icy. Having been in many, many times I can assure you it isn't and on the broads themselves, it can be quite warm in the sunshine. It can be icy in the winter, I hit an Ice flow once and was thrown overboard, that put me in Hospital for a week....

For a fraction of a second, I think one of my old boats and possibly me are in Shot at HSC, I certainly recognise a few of the boats in shot there as some are still there... unfortunately the camera operator was waving it around a bit at the time. an interesting video thanks

You know what would happen, each boat yard would end up with different colours schemes, like the fat content on packaged foods or the different coloured waste bins round the country..

Yes any boat sail or Motor trying to go through a gap that isn't there is a problem, at least if they squeeze under your boom, and you have the room, you can move out into the river, Though if that is against the tide in little wind that could be a problem. I've seen day boats trying to squeeze between two running sailing boats, to try to go under the boom, if the helmsman on the boat under which the day boat is trying to go isn't aware early enough, he cant pull the boom in, in enough time to save it from damage. I'm currently rebuilding a sailing boat which you sit in facing forward steering with your feet and pulling the ropes with your hands. this gives little ability to look behind you. so I'm on the look out for a pair of wing mirrors that won't catch the ropes!! I've also had regulo's problem of day boats sneaking up on the rear starboard quarter, which is a problem for me as the canopy has a huge blind spot in that area. The 1/4 mile testing signs on the straight from Dydlers mill to Horning have recently been up dated by BA with an additional sign say something like, Check your speed, "quoted" time from this to the next sign = 5mph

Picking up the boats, is like picking up a line of loose coupled freight wagons on the railways, you do NOT accelerate until they have all taken up the slack in their towing lines. otherwise the last boat in the tow could get huge jerk and rip their mooring cleats out. This means if I am towing from Horning Sailing club to Black Horse broads you'll see me slowly circling, in front of the club in as wide a circle as possible, collecting a boat or two on each time round, easing off each time one ties on the tail. Once I have the full tow, and everyone's line is tight, I can slowly accelerate up the river. Then as you approach the broad entrance you slow down very carefully as sailing boats slip through the water better than any motorboat, and they would catch up if you slow too quickly. Taking the corner very wide so you can see if anything is coming, you curve your way in. Dropping off the boats requires another gentle slow down until there is little pressure on the tow ropes and they each drop off the tail one at a time. Then you have problems depending what you are towing with, It you're in a motor cruiser, (such as an elysian 27) they have enough weight to go where you want them, whatever they do behind. Your second person should be watching the towed boats should their be a problem, while the helm looks at where you are going. So it's gentle curves, being very aware of trees and likely shallows, such as the one on the first corner on right as you exit Horning going down river. Your motor cruiser may be 9ft 6inches wide plus fenders, so your draft of 2ft 2inches is 5ft+ at least 2ft clearance from the bank is 7ft out from the bank. If they are tied to your Starboard quarter their 3ft 6 inches draft is only 4ft from the bank..... Often with a motor cruiser it's safer to have two tows of 3 boats from each quarter rather than one long line of six boats. In a dory it's a different story towing, If you are towing a line of keel boats, each one is heavier than the dory and has more rudder and keel area to steer with. So if the boat immediately behind you decides to wander off course, they drag the stern of the dory round, so you could lose control. This is where the second man should help by shouting at the towed boat to correct their course. You in a dory are also much closer to the width of a sailing boat and it's easier to realise you are going too close to banks or shallows but don't forget the trees!!. You can only tow from the central towing point on our dories, trying to use one of the side mooring points on the dory will turn the dory off course all the time. so it's still gentle curves, but you have to let the boats behind know where you're going! If I have a single boat to tow a short distance say across the river, then it's easier to do it in reverse, just point the point the outboard where you want to go and go.. (too fast and it's water over the stern....)

Back on the water, Iit is quite amusing too find people who will only overtake on the left, I'm bimbling near the middle of the river carefully , with a line of boats in tow. Having to keep out from the bank for draft or trees or corner reasons, and you get some dayboats desperately trying to find a gap in the traffic coming the other way, when there is a huge gap between me and the bank.

You are entirely of course correct, but as I've several times found uninvited hire boats on the club frontage you might think it was a BA mooring... I think I need a drink I'm getting confused...

Or as Belle Of the Broads, came in to Horning sailing club on a emergency, during regatta week, which is an open event. Had the bar actually been open at the time, 1 and 3 at the same time. (These days HSC has it's own licence, but in days gone past they operated as an extension of The Swan).

And most of those don't realise that their speedometer could be reading 10% +2.something or other mph high. Therefore their indicated 70 could, near enough. be actually 61Mph

A pub is a licenced premises open to the public, therefore My answer to question 1 would be to get southern comfort to moor on any BA staithe and sit at the bar, distance Zero feet...

In this case it's not that they come here looking for a home site, they come every year around this time, somewhere along the coast, most often in Great Yarmouth. They are coming for their holidays. The excuses of not providing enough permanent sites for them do not apply on this occasion. It is also the case a many of them have permanent bricks and mortar homes in Ireland. ( Note I'm referring to Travellers and Not Gypsies which are different)

I have seen boats planning on the broads, Last year one came down river round the corner at Dydlers Mill on the plane saw me in the rescue boat putting the buoys out. He immediately dropped off the plane turned round and then disappeared back up river. But generally it's not planning boats that are the problem, It's day boats going flat out to get to the next pub, Hire boats going flat out trying to find they're next mooring before they are full up, and multi-story private boats built for ocean going that are on tickover but still speeding and leaving a big hole in the water behind them and if they open the throttle a little to manoeuver they leave a VERY big hole in the water

I would think the sign actually said,. Ministry of Defence,