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I close mine for all the above reasons
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Whoops, forgot to get a pic but boat number two is all checked and sorted and now home n cosy. Was lovely to get back onboard and breathe that crisp Norfolk air..... back again tomorrow to get the works underway
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Annnnd we....are....back......phew! One boat checked, one to go
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I shall be paying a visit this weekend to check that all is well with mine and possibly my parents boats, probably wont take them out but there has been talk of it around the Christmas break(we are a bubble anyway), which would be lovely:)
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13 hours ago, NorfolkNog said:
This is the one I think. Badged as Dream Time at DRL.
Robin did a Captains Blog on Dream Time, if anyone is interested to see a bit more of her.....
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Love the 'classic' pictures on this thread, sadly my own only start more recently but perhaps I should raid my folks photo and slide collections.
Also is it just me who looks for 'our' old boats(ones hired and owned) or indeed ourselves in these old pics?
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Hello Roy, I have a Safari, this years toll was £307.56, my mooring is £660 per 6 months and the insurance was around £160, giving an annual total for basics of just shy of £1800. Of course mooring fees and insurance costs will vary depending on location and provider respectively but I hope that gives an indication, my yard is good value, not super posh but has electric and water etc etc
Maintainence/servicing cost is probably the biggest variable for any boat, Always allow extra on your purchase budget to cover unforseen issues and as others have said make sure your annual budget has enough extra capacity to build a bit of a cushion for future expenditure.
I can't comment on the cost of having boatyards do work as I mainly DIY it.
Good luck if you do go for it, lovely boats IMHO
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I hope Robert and Mike won't mind but I enjoy a bit of boat detective work so I had a little poke around Craigs database and Broadland memories and I think I may have found the Fair Craft boats, reg numbers R635 and R636, both wooden top Bourne/AF/Ocean 30's with aft wells and sliding roofs. These were originally Ernest Collins Shining Emblems but later went to Fair Craft as Fair Hilton so not sure if they are the ones Robert remembers or not.
Number 2 got smashed to pieces under Wroxham bridge in 1982 and appears to have been rebuilt with new superstructure but number 1 appears original.
https://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/1980sgallery2.html
http://www.broads.org.uk/wiki2018/index.php?title=Boat_Details&BoatHistory=10581&BoatId=6458
http://www.broads.org.uk/wiki2018/index.php?title=Boat_Details&BoatId=6457&BoatHistory=10578
FairCraft also seem to have had some all GRP 30 foot sliding canopy boats called Fair Ambassador.
The database is a little odd in that it lists two sets of Viceroy with different reg numbers but all from NBYCo albeit some years apart. All the boats in the database end up as private boats with different names so they must all exist.
Could the original Viceroys have been sold off to Compass Craft only to be replaced with 3 new ones at NYBCo?
The later ones seem to go straight into private hands after NBYCo.
Anyhoo, that passed a pleasurable hour or so, it may be of no use at all but I enjoyed digging about.
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7 minutes ago, MauriceMynah said:
1. Side to side can be better hidden
2. Side to side is less of a stretch, reducing both strain and wear & tear.
3. Side to side on the back end of the saloon means it can't get in the way.
I can find no advantage for the cable running Fore to Aft, though I am more than happy to hear of any
Have you allowed for the up and down movement in the canopy as well? You would(I think! correct me if I'm wrong!)need to have the cable running diagonally across the rear window when the canopy is up, otherwise it would get dragged down the side of the aft cabin.
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14 minutes ago, PAULG said:
Thanks Neil,
Will try but don’t want to risk being stuck on the other side. Managed to get up to Wayford on ladymore this year and have a meal in the hotel. Is there anything above the bridge worth seeing. Still looking forward to Coltishall which we could not do last year and How hill which we could not stop at as we needed to get back under Ludham at low tide.
Thanks for the replies
Upstream of Wayford is lovely, nice clear waters, quite narrow and tightish at the BA 24 hour mooring at the end, not all that much in terms of distance but a nice trip none the less. If its warm then likley to be plenty of the various paddle sport types for company.
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7 minutes ago, JanetAnne said:
I thought the 6 wheel Tyrrell did a couple of seasons and even had a win?
2 minutes ago, OldBerkshireBoy said:I thought it was banned after three races but I should of fact checked.
I thought it did race so I checked, JA has it, two seasons and one win for Scheckter Sweden '76.
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12 minutes ago, floydraser said:
often wonder how many more races would have been won by Nigel Mansell had his Ferraris been more reliable during the turbo years. Same goes for other drivers too I guess.
I know what you mean but Mansell drove for Ferrari at the start of the 3500cc normally aspirated era, I have a feeling it was the then pioneering semi-auto gearbox that let him down in '89 follwed by Prosts arrival in '90 which left Nige firmly in the number 2 slot for that season.
I know loads of useless triva about F1 up untill about 2000ish but don't ask me anything current cos I wouldnt have a clue!
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I'm sure many will know this but if not, in SwanR's last photo the area between the two sheds that is flooded is where you have pass through to get either to or from the moorings, normally you can drive through it but in that picture I would estimate the middle part could be over a foot deep possibly more.
I'm afraid I don't have many answers regarding the bridge clearance issues, I suspect that it has reduced generally but that because a lot of boats are still able to transit a lot of the time it hasn't quite become the same issue that PHB has.
I suppose it could be a bit like PHB was in the 80's now?
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If not solar panels then definitly some sort of advanced charging solution for the domestic batteries I would say, so that they will charge quickly, keeping the needed engine running time to a minimum.
I am quite interested in the Sterling alternator to battery chargers for this but have no direct experience of them as yet.
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I very nearly took a mooring at Bridge Broad recently but backed out at the last minute (not something I take lightly) when we had the very high water levels in September. The bridge was impassable and the road to the yard iself was heavily flooded. Also once over the bridge into the yard proper there is an area that floods very readily so wellies are a must.
That said, on the day I visited it was a glorious late summers day and it was all rather picturesque and peacefull but it is a yard that is somewhat past its best and lacks some of the mod cons. The yard manager, Cheryl, is a lovely person to deal with however.
If I had a 20 footer then I would definitly consider it again but even with my Safari I think it's all a bit of a gamble with regard getting stuck the wrong side of the bridge.
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I would want a larger capacity In your situation personally, constantly faffing about filling up with fuel would become a pain I think. Not such an issue if you are a weekend only boater but for constant use.....
Now whether to go for one larger tank or an additional one would largely be down to available space, how readily the old tank could be removed and perhaps ballasting issues I would say.
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Hi MM, who told you it was 112 litres? If it was the surveyor I would ask Richardsons as well just to be sure.
As an aside, after my folks purchased their new boat earlier this year we were looking over her, checking things out, getting to know whats what like you do, when we noticed that the fuel tank seemed rather small.(I'm a mechanic and Dad is a retired heating engineer so we have a pretty good idea of what we are doing).
We measured it up, calculated the capacity then, puzzled, we looked at the spec sheet supplied by Brooms(to the people who bought her out of hire in 2000). Our measured capacity was considerably lower than stated. Scratching our heads we looked again, noting that the tank was stainless and quite new looking. Surely they didn't spec a new tank that small did they??
No they didn't, we eventually realised that the tank we were looking at was another water tank and the flipping fuel tank was sitting behind it in all of it's vast hire boat spec capacity, invisible until from the engine bay until we looked through a hatch next to the helm.......
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49 minutes ago, RS2021 said:
As predicted by many people, NBD have gone All Inclusive. Also one class of boat has disappeared from their website, presumably retired to make way for the newer WRC boats. No sign of those yet though...
Fair Ambassador? It has appeared on NBS website,listed as coming soon....
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My parents have a Smarty sim for their MiFi, tenner a month for unlimited calls/texts, 30Gb data and it's a one month rolling contract. Coverage has been very good so far as well.
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6 minutes ago, oldgregg said:
Yup. My Huawei has an external antenna socket and the difference in reception is like night and day when you're in a remote part of the Broads.
My Huawei has the external socket, I find reception is generally great in most parts of the Broads except on my home mooring, I have been thinking about getting an aerial for it, do you have any recommendations?
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Jabsco say do not connect to the fresh water supply unless the model of toilet is specifically designed for it, I believe it is due to bacteria being able to pass from the 'dirty' side to the 'clean'.
I don't know what make/model of loo you have but I would check with the manufacturer before doing anything.
(I only know this because I had the same thoughts as you).
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Crack on Ian, I'm not into cooking so much but stories about people and life are always interesting.
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Welcome back Robin, I have seen your more recent YouTubings which were as entertaining as ever, you have a natural ability for it, the lower production values don't make them any less worth watching in my opinion.
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3 hours ago, MauriceMynah said:
about to order a Draper 78775 flameless gas torch.
I have got one of those, purchased to do a fairly major rewire on my last boat, and to be honest I was a little disappointed with it. It does do the job but it's rather slow at it, the heat scource is buried well within the unit.
Although, thinking about it, if you are only doing a few joints and aren't confident then it may actually be ideal.
I tend to use a lighter if it's only a quick job or space is tight(be careful not to overheat/burn the wire insulation) or a proper heatgun with deflecter if there is room to do so.
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I think I would go for a fold up one, ideally with electric assistance for those getting back to the boat after the pub moments.
Actually, I would likely want a MonkeyBike or folding moped of some sort to allow a bit more 'range'.(not for the pub though!)
I can't really see how to stow a full size pushbike onboard without it being very visible or very in the way. If it were something that got daily use I might be tempted to hang it over the transom on some brackets/davits but obviously this has stern-on implications.