Smoggy

That was my terminology Griff, the charge is only for the river port from haven bridge downstream. There has always been harbour dues but it's always been officially waived for vessels leaving from the broads or entering into the broads.

I just spoke to peel ports ops who confirm there is supposed to be a £20 charge as of this year for transit either way regardless of bridge requirements, this is another one sneaking up that needs objecting to. Not an issue for hire craft or river only craft but still another blow for the broads as a haven.

Just seen elsewhere that there is now a £20 charge to pass through yarmouth to sea and visa versa even though no bridge lifts may be needed, has anyone heard anything about this?

Sorry to hear that Alan, never a nice choice to have to make but remember there's no reason to feel guilty about changing your minds about treatment, your last line sums it up but I'm no believer in miracles. Best wishes to you all.

A good run up and a ski ramp.....

Those clamps look very hi-tech, this is how they do it in woodbridge.... Looking at the build so far a winning lottery ticket should be in the keel not a 50p coin, gotta admit I'd never heard of that.

He's behind you!... Trouble is with the last 3 or 4 years supply I doubt there will be many available this year.

Now I have a horrible image..... Oops I'm in trouble again.....

Yeah sorry about that, but Egyptian cream is such a lovely stout. Yes it was mine!

Would those flooded fields be the marshes and flood plains that were pumped out for the farmers in the first place?

RIP Young George, a true gent indeed but only met him the once and very glad I did, ramsholt arms closes too early for me and a run back up to waldringfield yealds a pub brekkie as long as there's a mooring free.

You mean sewage outfalls?

Because a regular maintenance dredging program doesn't get any one the kudos of an expensive flood protection scheme and no one gets their piccy taken and printed in the paper, these things are important you know....Far more important than just getting the job done in a way that prevents flooding and helps maintain navigation at the same time, you appear to have mistaken them for a useful government appointed body for the interests of a navigable water course.

Harwich tide data shows a 0.78m negative surge with levels dropping below chart datum, hopefully that will help get some water drained from the whole of the broads system. https://hha.co.uk/live-data/tide/

Greetings and welcome, I'm not an angler in any way but I've never seen a problem with fishing for the pot, my old man was always into shooting and hunting but if it wasn't going to be eaten he'd leave it be, seems such a waste to yank something out of it's natural environment with a hook through the gob for fun, if someone got me out of a pub like that I'd be proper grumpy.

Maybe that's why they didn't make you captain...

cheers pesky.

Could have been old age, nobody finds a wooly mammoth puppy. (how cute would that be?)

But can be matched by the same surge coming the other way, it all depends where the cause of the surge is. Tides generally meet somewhere around harwich.

Best of luck! Be nice to see activity there again. Shame about your neighbour, a good pub beside would help I'm sure but you have him.

Very tactfully put Ian, I'm sure you thought something else at the time....

There's also a chemical marker added, the dye is just for roadside checks but the chemical marker is what you'll be prosecuted on.

I bet most are made in china, if not the components probably are.

There's more graduates than proper knowledable folk at the EA these days so don't hold too much hope, on the great ouse my uncle was with the EA but started in the days of great ouse drainage board and then NRA before the EA came into being, when they did a load of work on St.Ives lock they had loads of trouble with concrete cracking and couldn't work out why things were moving when it should all be solid, my then retired uncle knew full well the surrounding mooring edges couldn't be tied into the lock and weir structure as it was built on a bed of elm and effectively floats on the ground water pressure so the whole structure changes elevation when the water level changes, similar when St.Neots lock was refurbed and they took a crane in beside the pen during the work, the rest of that season the lock had emergency patches holding the side up until a full rebuild could be carried out the next year, as soon as he saw the crane there he said it would collapse the pen, the poor blokes in the bottom at the time had a get out quick when it started moving, no-one had spec'd the max crane weight for ground that had been waterlogged since the lock was originally built. Very little dredging happens at all now only the shoals that build below locks and then it's dumped in the river just downstream as it's hazardous waste and can't be put on land, the land floods with the same water that runs over the river bed so how is that less hazardous? Of course if you spend a fortune on a previously un-needed flood defense you get to stand beside it for photos in the local paper and claim credit for it, that doesn't happen with routing dredging that saves the need for flood defence in the first place.

Mine has never shown anything above 0, I think most with a display can show highest level since activating as well as current level but can't remember how. What model is it? Does it have built in battery or replaceable battery? Answers on a £20 note to smoggy c/o pub. They should all chirp annoyingly if there is any problem or batteries going flat and should have a test button on them, a tin of that test stuff is your best bet if not sure but vent the area afterwards, failing that a cold petrol outboard on choke should soon register if you hold it by the exhaust.