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My littlest one finished off the drawings last nite after I’d posted them yesterday. Very fitting for a Prince and now King who I explained once graced my great aunt & uncles Pleasure Boat Inn.

HM The King Charles III

HM sketched by my youngest daughter just now following the sad news.

Nice Alpha! Not sure we’ve seen the full side on shot before and with that colour scheme looks great. I think all Alphacraft builds are very appealing right from those half a century or so ago up to the John Moxham designs which 20 years later are still cutting edge and without that foresight probably wouldn’t exist.

Sprinkler systems mostly help but aren’t fireproof. Imagine a scenario where a car catches 🔥 in a sprinkler protected underground car park. Sprinkler activates but fire has taken hold and fuel tank of said car ruptures and the fuel spreads on top of the flood, on fire, and sets light to neighbouring cars. This has actually happened and informed design approaches accordingly for at least 25 years or so. Gas suppression systems might be more appropriate, so long as the risk to the crew can be managed. Compartmentation and consideration of the property and person risks, which may sometimes conflict, call for fire engineering expertise and it would, or hopefully will, be extremely interesting to hear the conclusion in this instance, I agree with you though that this boat should not have gone up in smoke! That said I’m not clear what the regulatory regime is in this regard nor whether, eg, Lloyds standards or whatever standards such super yachts might be constructed to, even apply or are insisted upon by insurers.

Wood farm at Wayford?

JanetAnne, notwithstanding that Craig is and will always be the doyen of the database it is exciting that you have picked up the boat hook and to that end I am already fishing out a photograph or two ready to send to the new contact as and when ready for the next chapter. Thank you Dave!

Unutterably sad, having lost friends to road incidents, in some cases on the same road albeit different stretches, there are no words for the sorrow family and friends must feel. As RumPunch says wait and see, in the interim I do wish the media would check what they are reporting, one article is stating 60 mph speed limit, probably by someone who doesn’t know the road. At best sloppy reporting, at worst highly insensitive.

Edit: oops, not priory marine craft, skipjack marine craft at priory road garage, sheringham.

Sabbertons produced a superb looking launch in the early 60s in glassfibre with a lovely wood planked grained effect coloured deck moulding. I think it was known as the super ski 17 and exhibited at the London boat show, saw a photo somewhere. I saw one only once and have wanted one ever since. In that era or possibly a few years later my dad was trialing similar big and then bigger engine installs in some of the skipjack craft built by his school friend at priory marine craft. Don’t think they went beyond the jag straight 6 as the weight and momentum in swell of the sea skiing off Sheringham probably led to flipping one over and needing the services of the coastguard. Looks like the BA crew are having a nice time, especially the escapades above PH bridge!

Nice photos, a Corvette 320 built in Reedham possibly?

So my next question is, assuming a club needs six hours a week on a Sunday on average, then is there the electric equivalent of a dell quay dory with say 25hp in the market place now. I note e-formula f1 has been around for a few years now, is e-formula on the cards at Lowestoft &OB MBC in the near future?

A thought popped into my head, what the future for broads yacht&sailing club safety boats once we are fully on grid and off pipeline. Is there the maritime equipotential at present of, say, a testla roadster? I note the RNLI launched the E class about 10 years ago, but I think electric is perhaps 10 years in the future, If at all. Serious question. Appreciate some insight.... but not the hybrid Honda automotive type! Albeit they are a player in the present fossil fuelled outboard marine market. And, if such a thing is presently available, how much will such vessels cost?

Well, seems by virtue of having no choice but to fill up a gallon can at some point, my wife’s tank fumes won’t make the forecourt, that I’m an idiot. A full stop after to would be respectful. What do you think the limit should be?

Why not, make a holiday of it, come on the broads!

Sainsburys North Walsham have petrol only, not super, but no derv. Short queue, only a dozen or so vehicles. BP aylsham dry when I went past an hour or so ago.

Sainsbury’s North Walsham have had a delivery this morning. Passed by on the bike, long queues as you’d expect but hopefully people don’t go ott.

Wife’s car laid up (on fumes). Have a quarter of a tank in mine so should be ok until the end of the week. No school meals tomorrow due to staff shortages. I wonder what the cause of that might be...

I recognise at least one of the boat builders in the Asaph pictures and clearly remember the yacht being moored in the Pleasure Boat dyke in the mid eighties one weekend at least, spoke to the owner at the time, looks like the guy with the glasses on. Lovely yacht, trust it is still about somewhere.

The Golden Lights are survivors it seems, I wonder if both those and the Crown of Light were all made of treated timber?

I think I read that she was repurposed hence the different cabin roof arrangement in some of the abandoned pics. I’ve sailed cats, darts and shearwaters, and know full well the disadvantages when it comes to tacking or even gybing compared to a monohull dinghy. I can’t begin to imagine what the Electron was like if the wind was not in your favour, the resistance of the outer hulls looks challenging. To achieve what DC did singlehanded is mind blowing, the support for his family after such a sad chain of events tells us a lot about the sort of person who takes this on, I’d like to be in their crew!

Sensibly Sainsbury’s North Walsham are only fuelling emergency services workers. Popped down on my pushbike with my 5 litre can on the off chance so as not to waste the precious little I’ve got left. Roads are nice and quiet today!

Thumb up from yours truly for the voices of Hickling. Harry and Hazel lived in a cottage at the bottom of my grandparents garden which previously had been let for holidays sometimes with an ex HW dayboat chucked into the bargain. Harry had a sense of humour and was also a crack darts player for the Pleasure Boat team. Missed but ne’er forgotten. Especially beret and boiler suit! Sometimes modelled on a quad bike.

If Trinidad leaves what about Tobago?