Smoggy

Last time I saw reedham ferry close up there was a few bits of wood fendering hanging off and long bolts hanging out ready to take out your grp.

Any excuse eh mm.

I doubt you'll get a refill on them as calor are discontinuing them along with the 4.5kg butane, or have you found supplies?

Anywhere along the river deben is good, very pretty.

Woodbridge is well worth a visit, some lovely medieval buildings (some pubs so you can nose around the inside with an excuse to be in the pub) and the tide mill, the replica of the sutton hoo boat down by the quay and sutton hoo itself of course just outside, and the angel had woodfordes albion stout last time I was in.

That would be a hell of a route, and a swim. If you like a good walk you can moor at st.benetts and walk to the dog at ludham bridge.

And if you are not used to tidal water try and moor against the tide if there's much flow, it will all happen slower with better steering. More important for southern broads but worth knowing.

My boat needs 8'8" minimum and I've been under ludham with 8'2" showing on the board and still had clearance.

What Gracie means is "take an IV line and dripstand for the wine"

There's not many hire boats that can't get under ludham bridge so you should be ok for the ant, neatishead is nice with a good pub and you can drop a weight on barton broad if you fancy it. White horse at upton is good. What boat have you booked? It will give people an idea of where it can go and how it will turn in the dykes.

I do have a faceache login but it's not my name or anything like and date of birth is way out, I just don't trust the social media sites with my info, check out the birthday list on any forum on jan 1st and see how many 100+ year olds are there, on a bike forum I wished somone a happy 168th birthday last year. I may have a peek but I won't be putting my name to anything, I'm happy to put my name to my opinions but not to hand it to the tech companies more than I have to.

Shame it's on faceache, there's a lot that care about the broads but don't care for faceache. It's not much hassle or cost to setup a web address and a forum these days.

I assume you have a decent battery charger for when on shore power in which case just hook tv into 12V and let the battery charger deal with it, there's not that much draw from a tv. As for aerial try it on what you have before spashing out on something you might not need, I have an old glomex omni directional aerial on my radar arch and it had a booster in the system which I took out, most of the time it does fine without the booster except rockland and loddon where everyone struggles and phones say no.

The point is that we've already paid for it in the toll. It will cut the pubs trade for sure and many pubs can afford that these days.

Wierdo! I guess nobody is perfect.

That's not stamped, that's a bloody sticker! I'll get a load printed and only charge £20 a go to fit them, bargain or what.

I've not yet seem marine stamped on any regulator on any of the boats I've had, all passed bss. I also have some stamps.....

I assume that means "yes it has". I wonder how many 4.5kg bottles calor will find amongst the broken glass in their head office foyer over the next year.

As clip on bottles are going to become the only option for so many boats they'll either pass or the rules will change to suit.

Greetings.

Sound like a no brainer for your usage, we only have the cooker on gas and only usually do coffees and a bacon roll for brekkie on it, the pubs deal with the rest and diesel does the heating, a 4.5kg bottle does me about a year generally.

You can always ask for something written that shows the charge is legal when they ask for it and see if they walk away, I can see quite a few challenging it when asked.

I look forward to seeing the potterhamoid meteor shower every spring for years to come as the remains orbit the earth.....

Looking at the cost of the gaslow bottles it would take me many years of gas use to break even over the actual gas saving so I think flogas will be my way out, I have a spare empty calor but even if I see a full one available I doubt I will part any more cash to calor, I'm fairly sure the height restriction in my gas locker is a grp moulding edge that can fairly easily be cut by an inch to allow for the base moulding and just resin in the moulding to flat, at least a clip on regulator will be easier and I can ditch the rusty spanner. I suppose 40 years after the boat was built is a fair time for the same bottles to be available, others will have a harder time changing in tight gas lockers, many boats were fitted out specifically for those bottles back then. I have a nearly full bottle and a spare full so I doubt it will be a worry till 2024 for me. I look forward to seeing all the 4.5kg bbq's over the next couple of years, got use the bottles somehow....

Fenders dragging in the water is another matter, I have fallen foul to this when dropping lower for a low edge and forgetting to lift again but try and avoid that, mine are on spring hooks that go around the lower guard wire normally and keeps them clear of the water but can be hooked around the stantion bases when needed lower. Each to their own but I don't think it's good to advise folk to go out on deck everytime they move or moor without any knowledge of their boat or experience/physical ability.