JohnK

I’ve got an (none road legal) LED lightbar on my Land Rover. If I turn it on it’s like daylight. When I turn it off I can see very little for a few seconds. It almost completely destroys my night vision. There’s something about red light preserving your night vision isn’t there? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks for all the feedback folks. Very useful. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think the rules are that hire boats may not navigate on the Broads at night. Private boats with the right lights can. Is that correct? Has anyone done much night navigation on the Broads? I was thinking it could be very interesting to see some of the nocturnal animals and birds. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks, I didn’t know that. I want it to soak in don’t I? I just give it a light spray when I pass. So it will get plenty of coats. Luckily my wood working skills are so c**p I’m unlikely to make anything that’s allowed in the house so the smell shouldn’t be a problem [emoji57] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m not promoting this as a good idea for boats! I was messing in my shed and did a comparison of Danish oil (which I like using) and WD40 (which is dead easy to spray on) Very little difference on a scrap piece of wood. And I’m quite happy with the way this is coming up. Two coats so far. I don’t do much prep so it could be a lot better. 60 grit on a belt sander is as far as I go and no sanding between coats. I like to think that’s because I like rustic. But it’s more likely I’m just lazy [emoji57]. Has anyone else tried it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You can get smartphone apps to do colour analysis if that helps? Like this: Color Analyzer - Get info from image with camera!! by Satoshi Nakamurahttps://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/color-analyzer-get-info-from-image-with-camera/id1160206848?mt=8 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Bump. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Respect to you for putting a real effort in Steve. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Done. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Does that apply to every subject? Once the enlightened few have spoken there’s never a need to discuss it ever again? That sounds more like Wikipedia than a forum. [Posted very much tongue in cheek] I keep koi and use a couple of forums. Every year the same subjects come up over and over again. Some people choose to get involved, some choose not to. I think it makes new people feel welcome when they can get their questions answered. Things change too. Good advice / right answers five years ago may no longer be good advice / right answers today in my experience. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Actually, it was resurrected yet again because I was interested to learn about the situation. Sorry. Here’s me thinking a Norfolk Broads forum would be a forum to discuss the Norfolk Broads [emoji57] (JOKE) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don’t doubt that it is important. What I’m saying is that when you first ask what the issue is and you just hear that it’s a lie it seems petty. The issue isn’t that someone may be lying. The issue is that someone is potentially trying to sneak legislation through by lying. Perhaps I’m alone but when I kept hearing “they’re lying” my thoughts were “who cares?” It’s only now I understand a little more what may be happening I care. Do I care someone is being dishonest? Not really. Do I care the Broads may become a “real” National Park? Too bloody right I do! To be blunt only saying it’s a lie and refusing to discuss it further is going to alienate people who are new to the issue but might actually care and help. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s really informative thank you. It’s good to hear an option of why or why not rather than “it’s a lie” which superficially sounds petty (I’m not saying it is petty, just that unless you hear the back story it sounds petty). I think you’ve convinced me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not by me which is why I asked. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What’s your view Bill? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Apologies to everyone who thinks we shouldn’t have had this discussion. But I have to say as a newcomer to this without hearing the reasoning behind it arguing just that it’s a lie does sound quite out there. It makes perfect sense to object when you find out a little more about what’s happening. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was looking back through some old BBC stories about the Broads and came across this. Norwich: Safety warning after Broads boat hits railway bridgehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-32958732 At the bottom I see related stories (I tell you this because it’s possible different people see different related stories). The first one is Broads mapped from ducks eye view. Fair enough. Quite well related in my opinion. The second related story is woman killed by whale in Mexico. Related? Really??!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I found this on Wikipedia. Do you think that’s a reasonable description of the state of affairs? If the BA did make that statement do we believe them? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Couldn’t agree more. Isn’t there a danger that if the only people talking about it are for it the perception becomes that everyone agrees? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You’re right there. That was my point really. Keep telling the same lie and it becomes a truth is in my opinion what got the other their current leader. Xxx is fairly scary but Xxxxx scares me a lot more. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I hadn’t come across that term before. Assuming this is true.... http://www.nationalparks.gov.uk/students/whatisanationalpark/aimsandpurposesofnationalparks/sandfordprinciple That is scary. Fair enough for a true nature reserve but for man made waterways? Sorry to have dredged it up again (bad pun intended) but now I know a bit more I’d say it’s worth discussing at every possible opportunity however boring it gets! There must be a lot of people like me that know nothing of what may be trying to be done and the potential consequences. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Surely it can’t be true. If that was the case any idiot could become leader of the free world just by saying over and over they’d be really good at doing it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I did do a search but could find very little other than some people saying it shouldn’t be discussed and a few saying it isn’t an NP so it shouldn’t be called one. If it can be called a NP in marketing how’s that different from calling it an NP in public? What I was hoping to hear was people’s opinions on why they think it’s either a good or bad thing calling it an NP I can understand concern over it actually becoming a NP. So is the worry over it being called a NP just that someone is trying to sneak it through? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fair enough. Sorry for the post. I’ll shut up and use google in future. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

MorningSwan. Yeah, sort of. It was your post that prompted me to ask but I’ve seen many other people post the same thing. I’m not trying to provoke an argument (I seem to be saying this a lot recently but I’m honestly not). I just like to understand stuff. I still don’t really understand the problem. I completely agree people should be honest but I don’t understand the harm in this case. Is the worry as SpeedTriple (biker?) says that boats get banned, skiing stopped etc? Or is there more to it than that? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk