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When I hear the word Mods, I always think of them who have very bad dress sense and ride motorbikes that have more headlights than speed stripes.
All the best on your promotion Dave, or is it Rodney, and I hope the benefits outweigh the headaches.
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On 06/11/2017 at 00:19, BroadAmbition said:
I take 'B.A' through regular if the pilots office gauge states 6ft5" or more. That gives me a 2" clearance to play with. The tallest point on 'B.A' is 6ft3" being the mast bracket, so in theory I could take her through with 6ft4" showing on the gauge. 'B.A' is 40ft x 12ft. She was constructed in 1966 by Jack Powles. Like many boats of that era, the boats were designed and constructed for the Broads and Broads bridges, the holiday maker adapted themsens to the boats. Nowadays sadly this has changed. The boats are constructed / designed for the holiday maker and the boats have to adapt themsens to the Broads
Hope this helps
Griff
Hi Griff, I would be interested to know that when they give an air draft of a boat, I assume this is on it's own and when fully laden with people, fuel, water and goods so to speak, how much can this affect the air draft?
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11 hours ago, grendel said:
yes, clean with acetone, light mist of water, and then glue, clamp firmly, the gorilla glue migrates into the structure of the wood and absorbs water to bond, thats why the cleaning to remove surface oils.
Gorilla glue, is that American? I would of thought that this build would solely be built on English tradition and not include crappy import nonsense.
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It may or may not interest anyone, but when I was viewing the Barnes cam today, I did see an otter enter an exit the web cam in the top left hand corner in the photo shown.
Well it peaked my interest.
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Congratulations Rick on your award, so I assume with this merriment, NBN members can assume 50% discount.
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On 11/2/2017 at 19:01, BroadAmbition said:
A experienced helm (One of our Lads Week crew) who has been afloat every year since about 82 took us outside the marked channel as he got confused or just plian and simple wasn't paying attention. I was in t galley as I mistakenly assumed I could trust him, just goes to prove assumption is the mother of all cock ups. I came up to wheelhouse had a look round, it seemed to take ages for my eyes / brain to compute that we were outside of the marked channel, in reality eyes / brain just would not believe the information they were receiving. I didn't know whether to faint or have a canary fit. As it was, once said sensors had confirmed my worst nightmare, muscles sprang into action, grab engine control bring to dead slow, swing helm fast and hard over to a direct course back towards marked channel, then commence prayers to Neptune. We got away with it, once back in safe water, me and the helm had a 'discussion'
Griff
I'm sorry Griff, but I had to laugh
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I must admit, I think it is the privateers that are most likely not to wave, but I'm sure NBN privateers would never sink that low. Sorry for the pun.
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7 hours ago, Londonlad1985 said:
Thanks Andrew. It was my pleasure.
I'm sure on a "Lads week" it was very much a bit of a blur.
Oh my head!
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Hi Andrew, the broads are open for anyone to enjoy and as long as you have one or more people on the boat that are capable to steer and moor, disabilities don't come into it. I know some disabilities of a person need a boat to be kipped out specifically, so as long as you are an able bodied seaman for the broads, no one is exempt.
But when you see a bunch of drunken lads on the broads in charge of a boat, they are disabled in a different sense.
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10 hours ago, grendel said:
Quite possibly.
I'm glad you said that, I thought Windows 98 was still giving me problems.
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1 hour ago, SwanR said:
I found the whole programme very disjointed. I didn't really feel that it gave a sense of why anyone should go to the Broads ... but perhaps that's not really the aim of the series. They did rather jump from one place to another which we only recognised because we know the area so well. Makes you wonder how much of the same could be said for all the other programmes they have made. It was a shame that they didn't take out something much more like the boats that most of us hire as holidaymakers.
Basically the programme is about Tim and Pru and where they visit doesn't really come into it. If they done a version of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Norfolk Broads" it would be Miss Scales, with the rond anchors, in the galley.
How many other people have we seen use the rivers to get their faces back on tv?
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51 minutes ago, vanessan said:
I can’t imagine Robin doing/buying anything without going into it all as thoroughly as he possibly could, particularly when he plans to live on the boat. No doubt he will reveal all in due course although, if he tells us where he will be moored, he will have folk queuing up for a cuppa (or a beer!).
Wherever he is going to be moored, I'm sure he has looked into direct routes for the BA owners club to take, for when they need to arrive with their tools.
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On 10/28/2017 at 09:59, Snowy said:
I’m sure I read somewhere Robin planned to moor at Waveney River Centre, I may have dreamt that
Ipswich has a few good marina's and good routes out to sea. Also if he plans to live aboard, I think I heard that he may be in the legal profession and since it feels like solicitor city around here, I doubt very much that he would have trouble in getting a job.
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If the camera is only going to show this one angle, it is that uninteresting that they might aswell remove it altogether. Time to move on to my next favourite cam which is the Wherry.
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53 minutes ago, Ricardo said:
I went on it earlier today and it was fine but seams like that its been taken off line now , heard elsewhere that's the case too , maybe they realised that it was sometimes pointing at the .such complained about development and could well be the reason why they have moved all the boats imposing on the river from the new Mooring's , to me just desert's , stick to planning or get your fingers burned after all everyone else has to abide by the rules !
I must admit that I did view the plans for the development and when I saw these boats sticking out towards the river, it didn't seem right. But I naturally thought that I had viewed the plans wrong and Barnes wouldn't do something they weren't supposed to do. But because the camera doesn't swing around enough, you can't really come round to a conclusion.
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I love the Brinks webcam as viewing in real time can be quite amusing. I know that some of the angles of the camera have been removed, but it would be nice if the camera on one of it's angles would view the new moorings again like it use too when some of the boats/houseboats were there.
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There seem to be a few intelligent boffins on this site. Lucky for me in my job it's basic math of add, subtract, divide, measure twice and cut once and check the bank balance to make sure the money has gone in.
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14 hours ago, Maxwellian said:
I bet Gracie saw the word proposed and rushed in to see if she was first.
Now I don't know very much about Gracie, but the feeling I get is that other female members on NBN must lock up their husbands if she is about.
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40 minutes ago, Philosophical said:
all the male VW owners seem to be arrogant little ****s.
Don't worry, these men have moved on to owning an Audi.
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3 hours ago, KingfishersTime said:
No and no again, so here's a larger picture that will no doubt give it away, but only if you've managed to find this place before.
Looks like Frodo's mansion.
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If the measurement had to be close, it was always referred to as "being within a gnat's cock".
Hopefully I haven't broken any rules with this comment.
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I always use to wave, but it got to a stage where I wait for them to wave first as it seemed like you are back on the road, you know the ones. It's your right of way, you let them through and they drive past without making a simple acknowledgement. Myself and some of my crew would wave, but sometimes the passing boat would look at us as if, do we know you.
My favourite was a young couple, I waved first and this bloke simply looked at me and gave me the death stare, really strange. The only thing I think it could of been was because I was on one of Barnes finest, and he was on a crappy private boat.
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For some it seems to be rocket science to stay between the posts, unless the wind got the better of them, which is unfortunate if it did.
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1 hour ago, Wonderwall said:
Also, like most things in life , I'm sure there are many hidden downsides ,
For me it would be the cold weather. I used to love riding a motorbike in the warm sunny weather, but when the rain and cold came along, the fun soon disappeared. I love the broads, the sun(British wise), warmth and time away, makes it so more appealing for when I return.
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I don't get it, Soundings has been a member since 2010 and this comes out. It's either been bottling up inside concerning a certain issue, fell out of the wrong side of the bed, or has had a bad day.