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Congratulations Ray. Hope Danni approves. Please post pics of her lounging on the sofa (if she’s allowed!)

What I find frustrating as just as we get to the point of trying to do more cosmetic, prettying up type things, something else goes wrong that costs a fortune , i,e new fuel tank, calorifier , batteries etc and you cant see where the money has gone apart from that its left your bank account ☹️

I’ll carry on the theme of dog avatars but with a bit of boat

Happy Birthday Kate x I have no sense of direction whatsoever and would have been panicking getting lost out there!

Selsie would like it if its still available

So that explains our confusion last week mooring up at Stokesby. We moored with the tide (safely thank goodness) having checked Aweigh thinking we would be against the tide. Will compare different tide info next time!

We were tempted to go to Ranworth today but decided on Stokesby . On our own , hooked up on the electric but pub is shut until 10th Feb. :(

Warm welcome to the forum:)

Warm welcome to the forum :)

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23265890.norfolk-broads-will-potter-heigham-bridge-reopen/

Brrrrrr.

Saw that some boats must have crunched through the ice on the main river. Despite the glorious sunshine, the marina is still frozen over

But if these two popular moorings are going to be chargeable then there will be no stopping the rest of the free moorings being changed to chargeable so there won’t be plenty of free moorings at all

A very chilly night. Woken up to marina and main river frozen over

Nice and toasty with the diesel heater on. Just been pouring with rain so assume that ice will have gone/going

Warm welcome to the forum

Just taken Desmond for a walk around Broadsedge and could see the main river has ice along the middle. Thin ice in places in the marina so glad we made the decision not to go out this weekend

Knowing how clumsy I can be, even tripping over thin air, I know I’d step out and trip over the fenders if we kept them on deck and …… sploosh! We often make a last minute decision to moor and cant be doing with extra trip hazards and prep

I haven’t got a massive issue with the toll this year, although would feel differently if they add the same percentage or more next year. The issue I have is free moorings being turned into chargeable moorings. If it happens at these two places, it opens it up to happening to every mooring.

We’ve only moored a couple off times at Ranworth as we need the side on (taxi rank ) because of the dog , so only choose out of season to see if its available. We certainly wont even attempt to go there if we have to pay. How would fee collection work out of season anyway? Would our tolls be paying for a ranger to collect the money for the few boats that come in? We have worked our socks off to get a boat and maintain it. We’ve had a lot of expensive outlay 2022. We can tolerate the increase in tolls this year. We all knew they would increase considerably but the loss of one of our favourite moorings (Barton Staithe) and now the likelihood of everyone having to pay at Ranworth, where does this end? All free moorings will become chargeable? Other moorings will be lost? The amount of days we are aboard a year, would cost us a huge amount which isnt in our budget. Our contingency fund is for maintenance issues, not additional mooring fees. Before this thread, I had been thinking of selling the boat and maybe changing it for something with rear access for the dog so we can stern on moor but If this is the way things are going, it will become very likely we may as well sell and take our hard earned cash somewhere else.

Thats where i meant. I didnt know it was for unpowered craft only. Is this a new thing?

I’d be interested to know too. I thought the dyke by the ‘waiting for the pilot mooring’ on the left hand side (nearest the road) was a public mooring and the side nearest the hotel isnt. Ive seen on Robin’s vlogs he’s often moored there.

I saw that item too. They ask for a small donation to collect the tree then that money goes towards buying trees to plant. Great scheme

Im exhausted just reading your account 😂 I realised how unfit myself and Desmond are last weekend. My version of a long walk is in no comparison to Kate’s! We only went on a short walk (for Finlay and Kate) but for us I could tell Desmond was starting to flag towards the end, whereas Finlay was still just as energetic as at the start. Kate kindly kept Finlay on the lead which must have been annoying for him but I cant let Desmond off the lead as if he sees something, being a sighthound, he will be off into the distance in a flash of ginger but we did discuss the advantages of a whippet being a quick wipe clean dog!

Its ok, I stopped him as he was about to make the move 😉 Lovely photos, finally some blue sky