JamesLV

A lovely spot in the afternoon!

I could be (and fairly likely am) wrong but I thought all the big ocean going boats (container ships, ferries etc) had to be fitted with ‘scrubbers’ these days to bring the emissions down? This was, I believe, one of the main reasons Brittany Ferries was decommissioning some of their older fleet (which they’re now not)

I had to add all the ‘non-plates’ as living just outside Brighton more or less anything goes...

I tend to favour the theory; does it come on a plate (also plank/slate/insert other non disposable culinary substrate here) if yes then it’s not fast food, this does get blurry though when you get a burger, or fish and chips at a pub, but no rule is infallible...

Big fan of the Bridge at Acle, nothing out of this world, but just decent pub grub, decent portions, sensible pricing and a great welcome, we will be making a point of stopping there in October, also rated the Lion @ Thurne, so will be heading there too, and hopefully the white horse @ Neatishead this year as the tide times are slightly more favourable for Omega and Ludham Bridge...

Griff, you’ll have to let us know your itenary nearer the time and we’ll try and coincide somewhere along the way, presume you’ll be heading South? We’ll be staying North, but sure our paths will cross.

Exactly what I was hoping, we’re up on Omega again 6th-13th, so will hopefully see you about!

Did a quick search, but didn’t see it, when is ‘lads week’ this year?

That and it’s ‘sister’ boat the titanic have been up for sale sale for a fair while, can’t possibly think why...

Indeed!

Can’t speak for a boat, as I’ve never brought one, but in terms of houses, never had a survey done, didn’t see the point, House had been there for 200 years in that instance, hadn’t fallen down, and I have a useful network of friends who cover most of the trades, so should something untoward come to the surface, I’ll make the most of what I have and deal with it. I guess it’s similar to Robin’s situation where he knows what he’s looking at, and has a network of friends who can help him if it goes wrong. Also, small matter of the fact it’s his money, and therefore his choice. The building surveyors I know have so many get-out clauses in their contracts, they can walk away from pretty much anything anyway.

So technically that’s now 4 boats, 1 more and you’ll be half the size of Broads Boating Co!

I'm sure this has probably been thoroughly investigated, but I wonder whether the controllers are out of sync with each other and need recalibrating/resetting. I know this happens on car electric windows from time to time (not an entirely different set-up really) as they have up/down (forwd/aft) and you can have multiple switches operating the same motor (think drivers side control, operating pass side, and rear windows). Just a thought, as I say I'm sure it's been investigated already. I had to reset the windows on one of my cars the other day, and it struck me it was a similar sort of issue.

I need to catch up, still only half way through part II, the printing Industry having been at a stand still more or less since November has gone mental this last couple of weeks (at least for us, sadly not others as we lose yet another few from the landscape). Like the name of the rib, my grandmother was always known as Peggy, despite being called Marguerite Ellen, never knew why...

I think it’s the time of year, as someone’s already mentioned, people can’t get out on the rivers and get frustrated, and ratty. I’ve noticed the same on a popular BBQ group I’m a member of. This of course isn’t an excuse for bad manners, merely an observation

according to an old Navy boy we met getting off the boat he had said the captain had said this was around Force 10, which was plenty enough for me...

Luckily I don’t suffer on Ferries (good job being mother lives in France, the 12 hr Portsmouth - St Malo crossing is fairly regular) but we did have one crossing last year where it was very rough, and the captain apparently made the decision to sail ‘across’ the storm for 4 hours so we could have it behind us for the remaining 8 hours, I was in the top bunk and spent the night holding on, and alternately being crumpled up at one or t’other end. one of my ex’s dad had a motor sailer about 35-40’ out of Broadstairs or Margate and I was hanging like a rusty gate on that thing...

Be it quite a big b**ger!

Just FYI, they’re called the Caravan and Motorhome Club these days!

So happy to see this happy conclusion to an amazing adventure which Robin (and Charlie, Howard etc) have let us be part of. Robin, you’ve done something most of us only begin to dream off, fair play mate, I hope it’s everything you wanted and more, and if you’re not bored of visitors, maybe Ems and I will come and say hi at the latter part of the season. well done all involved, you’ve represented the friendly forum in the most amazing way possible!

indeed, otherwise they would have to somehow get back to Plymouth to get the cars they would've travelled down in!

Keep up the good work guys, sorry I didn't get to meet you all in Brighton, was out celebrating the 3rd night of my birthday (it became 4 in total) Griff, you're a hero, and hope Robin recovers soon enough, very brave to tell people something he didn't need to. I know I struggle on anything smaller than a cross channel ferry on the sea when it's rough so understand how it feels. God speed and best of luck for the remainder of the journey.

I'm gutted I'm going to miss the Brighton stopover, it's my birthday on Friday and we're out with Ems' parents on Saturday night! Hope all goes well though lads!

I said to Robin I’ll try and get down and see you all and say hello if you overnight at Brighton as I’m only 20 mins/half hour away

i took the measurements off a previous hard copy of the NBN calendar I was supplied, so layout is verbatim that layout, as I’ve learnt from many years of working in the design industry one cannot please all the people, all the time, sorry it hasn’t hit the mark for you.