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Smoggy
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How can you say this is the friendly forum and then say "If you dont like hire boats why have a boat here . Go some where that hire boats dont exsist." ?
Hardly friendly talk from a moderator is it?
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Theres nowt to appologise for Cal, your original comment said "errant hireboats" not "hireboats".
No generalisation was made.
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1 minute ago, Bound2Please said:
The broads are the broads, this is the height of the season, you have to expect these things.
So what you are saying is it happens all the time and we should all be afraid, make your mind up.
Whatever happened don't start stiffling facts in case it offends or scares someone, that is when forums become pointless clicky clubs.
In fast running areas I'll always try to find a sheltered mooring from hireboats just in case, same as I don't step out in front of cars on zebra crossings.
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Can confirm haven bridge, came through this morning and not only did it open but it closed again too.
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The boat model alone may not help as it may have been re-engined at some time and had a stern gland changed at the same time.
You can't beat a vernier across the shaft, metric and imperial can be very close but not close enough to keep a rope cutter clamped.
A stripper should be matched to number of blades too (although mine are not).
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Bread Is Not Harmful To Water Fowl!
So if a duck gets run over by a hovis truck????
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I think freedom do use a security deposit rather cdw.
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There were stories of excess alcahol and crashing into something, not sure where the initial report came from.
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CG came by car at ferryhouse, the pub had a call from freedom not long after to ask if they'd seen it.
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The coastguard turned up at ferryhouse last night with blue flashies going looking for the second boat, one of freedoms I believe.
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I tried cold turkey but couldnt get a fag paper round the drumstick.
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15 minutes ago, dnks34 said:
Will any businesses set the bar and make a claim against Network Rail for loss of revenue?
Its surely affecting the WRC, Oulton Broad & Beccles for mooring fees at the very least not to mention pubs & shops etc who will no doubt not be getting the business.
I wonder how many large boat owners/hirers just havent bothered with visits this year as a result of it.
The hard bit would be proving the lost revenue.
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kings head is highly likely as it's a sporty pub, close to the river too.
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8 minutes ago, Jbx5 said:
replaced with people who have not got the hands on experience or common sense to sort these problems out.
You mean people with degrees then.....
There's nowt worse than a 'engineer' that has never picked up a spanner.
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I was thinking about a less energy intensive way seeing as there is a river below topped up by a cold north sea twice a day, seems a shame not to use a resource that's there, they don't need freezing just knock the temp down a bit.
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Or they could read my earlier post in the other thread about water spraying and give it some serious consideration.
QuoteHow about a narrow rectangular tank clamped (like a NB skin tank) to the side of the rails with water flowing through cooled by the river via heat exchanger? The heat exchanger doesn't need to be any more technical that a coil of plastic pipe in the river ( like ground source heat pump), no salt water goes near the bridge as it would be a closed system with anti freeze mix, and it would only take a fairly low power pump to circulate it.
Boaters happy
Bridge happy
Low cost
I don't suppose there's any way the inside of the rail could be used like that but why not the outside?
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And nothing more technical than half the boats going under are already using....
And no rusty water dripping too.
The other option is to use rubber rails and tie a knot in the middle when they expand.....
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I'm sure B2P will have a reason why this won't work but here goes anyway.......
How about a narrow rectangular tank clamped (like a NB skin tank) to the side of the rails with water flowing through cooled by the river via heat exchanger? The heat exchanger doesn't need to be any more technical that a coil of plastic pipe in the river ( like ground source heat pump), no salt water goes near the bridge as it would be a closed system with anti freeze mix, and it would only take a fairly low power pump to circulate it.
Boaters happy
Bridge happy
Low cost
I don't suppose there's any way the inside of the rail could be used like that but why not the outside?
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" Kind regards,
TomTom Waterfall"
That name must be a wind up.
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Had I read this before leaving I would have given you a tow, left rockland broad 11.30ish heading for thorpe via the downstream cut (as it's deeper that way), didn't see you at all so I assume you were round the corner towards the beuchamps.
Could have easily given you a tow to brundle, no use now as back home 100 miles away.
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2 hours ago, Meg said:
where has the other £1 gone?
BA put it towards their next pointless vanity project!
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Spot on idea ECIPA as long as the info is forthcoming from the bridges, it's an issue we can whinge about as long as we like but in reality it's not going to go away anytime soon so we may as well do what we can to live with the situation as best we can (I await the barrage of "but we shouldn't have to live with it").
I've just done myself a little spreadsheet of times when I think I can get under haven bridge for my next 2 week holiday as I don't expect I'll get any lifts and don't plan on being trapped on the rivers, but I'm lucky and can fold down to 9' when needed, just means I won't always be able to pick my tide as well.
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1 hour ago, grendel said:
perhaps they should fit the summer rails
Maybe if they fitted a winter sun it would help.
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Be aware that july is the main season for sea monsters and dragons on the southern broads and the tides run at 20 knots at that time of the year and don't follow the tables, sometimes it even runs sideways into the bank.
Far better and safer to stay north.......
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Naughty-cal Heads To The Broads Again
in Holiday Tales & Blogs
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It's not about hire vs private at all, it's about idiot in a boat vs rational person in a boat, we all make cockups but a small minority don't care how badly they cockup because they've paid a waiver, not with me or my insurance company they aint!