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Exactly. So a pair of batteries rated at 100KWh / 375V would probably be enough. But not when they're £40K each.

I think we'll see a Broads cruiser with the powertrain from a salvaged electric car before too long, but the battery technology has to come a bit further before it's ready to put into hire. Those Tesla fast chargers are designed to give you a top-up in around 20 minutes hence the huge current draw - But a Broads cruiser could be plugged in for 12+ hours overnight so wouldn't be pulling that sort of ampage. A top-spec Tesla car has around 780hp, and a 100kwh battery that gives circa 250-320 mile range. I've tried to do the maths to work out what that would equate to in a boat with a 100hp motor, fridge, bilge pump, lights, toilets etc but failed miserably as there are so many variables. I suspect a couple of Tesla batteries in an RC45 might do quite nicely but they're about £40K a piece without the control systems, and there are quite a few engineering challenges involved in doing it. Sent from the Norfolk Broads Network mobile app

Mostly, but yeah the later hardware revisions had some issues. They even had issues with some PS2 games. Doesn't look like that particular game is one of the problem ones... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_games_incompatible_with_PlayStation_2

That's a PS1 game I think? Should be able to get hold of a copy on eBay though....

Anywhere with a soak dyke..... Sent from the Norfolk Broads Network mobile app

The website isn't a lot better...

Just looked on the BA site versus Strowager's one and yes, they're miles out.

I think some of the hirefleets use that site and publish the times in their skipper's handbooks, as the BA / Broadcaster ones are not so good and have been known to be out by as much as an hour and a half in recent years.

It's getting harder and harder to get under Wroxham... I've hired several centre-cockpit boats in recent years which used to go under Wroxham Bridge all day long and not been able to get them through. The other big indicator I would say is that a fleet you're fairly familiar with used to be based just the other side of Wroxham bridge, and in the last ten years that became completely unviable as they were having to weigh the boats down with oil drums full of water on deck, open the seacocks and all sorts in order to get them back in to the yard. We all know that river levels have risen, the bridges may be sinking etc etc but it seems quite a large shift in just twenty years when those bridges have been around for hundreds of years and used to fit wherries through easily just as they did in the nineties.

I'm definitely not qualified to speculate why, but certainly a lot more used to be able to regularly get under both of the troublesome tonnage bridges on the North and now no longer can.

Oh yeah they weren't building Alpha 35's in the 1960's! Just an unusual reg.

Yeah and I think this one does look nicer with the lighter laminates, too. A lot of yards were still using very dark stuff at the time (Alpha had previously) and it hasn't aged well.

I would guess they date from around 2002? That seems to be when she left the fleet. The reg is a bit confusing as a 'T' which was originally 1960's - But she was obviously built around the time the new system came in (circa 1993) when the BA were using up old unallocated numbers.

Here she is in 1996 in Alpha's livery...

Looks like she was built for the fleet, but has been private for a long time - She left the fleet long long before it all came off the rails. http://www.broads.org.uk/wiki/index.php5?title=Boat_Details&BoatId=7101&BoatHistory=54166

All of the examples in hire are for sale for the right price.

It's generally pretty quick, but the web server is in the USA while the photos and other pictures etc are here in blighty. If the internet is a bit congested then you can see problems.

Yeah, Full Members are set to unlimited disk space for attachments. Couldn't remember what I set them up as...

Do you mean attachments in PM's or in posts?

That was 1987, would you believe..

I remember it well from the time, so no digging. I think it's generally understood that McLaren advised Lewis to distance himself from his father as his way of doing things had begun to hold him back. Actually, I have often pointed out to critics of Lewis that he is a multiple world champion (and now into very exclusive territory) and that you don't get there with two different teams without some real talent. In fact I'd say that unlike the also pretty talented Vettel, his best may be yet to come. There are very few F1 drivers who have got all the way to a driver's championship without any real merit. Can you think of a journeyman pay driver who has managed it in modern F1? Probably the only contentious one in recent years was Raikkonen, but in reality he is also pretty quick when he can actually be bothered and ultimately he won because he'd earned enough points.

I wouldn't feel sorry for Anthony Hamilton... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/10502035/Anthony-Hamilton-admits-lying-to-drinks-company-about-Paul-di-Resta-sponsorship-deal.html I suspect Lewis will have been advised to get rid if he wanted a long career in F1. Sent from the Norfolk Broads Network mobile app

Yeah, shame as she's a great boat. Really spacious and sociable for a 37ft boat, and handles like a dream.

https://www.richardsonsboatingholidays.co.uk/boats/contessa/ She seems to be available for easter? It is a reasonable height from the stern though.

Yeah it is quite a difference. One thing to note on the Bounty 40's is that the single beds are usually pretty narrow. Shouldn't be an issue for younger kids, though.