chrisdobson45

We have a Sunquest 34 moored at Brundall (Cove) and with 15ft 11 inches with the arch up, face similar bridge clearance challenges to you with your Broom 42. You are correct that the trowse Swing Bridge is our effective limit up river. We often cruise west from Brundall and then turn around at the second rail bridge over the old river at Thorpe and then head down river. I don't believe that there are moorings available at Whittlingham Park. Commissioner's Cut has moorings, and is not too inconvenient for accessing Norwich via a shortish walk and then bus. The train from Brundall is really excellent and is about 11 minutes...

This was Cove yesterday at 6am, first hint of Autumn in the air. Back home now (just north of Nottingham) and a misty start to what looks lke being a smashing day. The leaves are just starting to darken on the Acers in the garden which is usually a sign that summer is drawing to a close. As a kid, autumn's arrival was heralded by the lovely smell of coal fires, we called it Goose Fair Weather (traditionally first weedend in October)

Just eaten supper at The White Heron, the chicken burger & loaded fries were both excellent, service was great. We were lucky to get a table without a reservation. The sports bar was busy, we had a drink on the way out. The moorings we’re empty so punters were either local (like us) or had travelled there (the table of 12 near ours had journeyed by train) The White Heron has become our regular haunt when we fancy supper, the new menu makes a change from pub grub norm.

We encountered a couple of hire craft on the Yare between Brundall & Thorpe, very quiet…

For the first couple of weeks in August I was able to work from the boat, moored at Cove, Brundall. The marina WIFI was good enough for Teams calls and my mobile (O2) was fine. However, last week saw the marina WIFI become unusable (even for web browsing and emails0 and the mobile reception gave up the ghost completely...

We use them far too often, as they are very convenient. We've never had bad service from them....

I may have a similar problem, first came to light over the weekend in the middle of the night. I was awoken by an intermittent noise from under the salon floor, which turned out to be the water pipes exiting the water pump flexing as the pump momentarily activating. After having all the hatches up in the salon and cockpit at 2am I was able to determine that there was no water leak anyehere so the pump or pressure relief valve could be the likely culprit. I'll have another look at the pump to see if there's any signs of a leak. It's a Jabsco Par Max 4 which looks to be in fine nick. I'm down again for a couple of weeks on Thursday so a trip to Brain Wards is on the cards, for a water pump and a toilet service pack (although Kath is keen on a new toilet, especially as brian Wards has a discount on the model that would be a direct replacement for ours. At least Brian Wards is only a couple of minutes from Cove...

We have a pair of Mercruiser D636's, the workshop manual is at the boat, we're there on Saturday if you can wait until then I'll photo pages for you...

That's a blow, we've used it regularly when about Wroxham as it's easy to access. We lost the last bank in our home town a couple of years ago (Lloyds) and now there's plans for a banking hub to be established but as the high street now comprises mostly vape shops, charity shops and Turkisk Barbours, there's no suitable premises available....

I salute you, I haven't the courage to attempt to repair the boiler when it stops working. This reminds me of the hot air balloonist who was having difficulties one morning. He had to bale out and so leapt out of the basket and pulled the cord of his parachute, nothing happened so he pulled it again to no avail. He sees, amazingly, a man travelling upwards, towards him at high velocity and shouts "Do you know anything about parachutes?" to which the man replies "No, do you know anything about gas boilers?"

1977, I was 11, my dad hired Golden Arrow from Pearson Marine, Reedham. My mum wore her lifejacket all week (even when we were sitting down for a meal onboard). I'm sure she wore it in bed. We came back every year until I was 21, with Brister Craft, Aston Boats & Harvey Eastwood VIP. I then relocated to Norwich and my fiance became friends with a work colleague at Norwich Union whose family owned a boat building concern at Brundall. We spent many fine weekends afloat until I left UK for a period working in the Middle East. I had abreak from the Broads until about 2016 when I brought my family for a holiday and we returned, and returned... Fast forward to earlier this year when we purchased our first boat, a Colvic Sunquest 34 (not ideally suited to the Broads but a lovely boat nevertheless) which we keep at Cove Marina and use most weekends. We love the peace and tranquility, and we are making memories...

It’s become our “go to”place for supper if we get back to Cove and are in need of supper. The food is usually fine (apart from the vegetable lasagne, this was pretty dire, cheese sauce had split and there was a distinct lack of vegetables).

All the very best Ian, it looks like you have the best of the best looking after you. I am undergoing radiotherapy at present, 10 months after surgery as "it" has returned. The worst part of my treatment was the fitting of the rectal spacer last week. Why is it that every time I'm in theatre, on my back, with my legs apart, there's a few young nurses around?

We are berthed in Cove Marina. We have found that pretty much anywhere south of the railway station & The White Heron into the Riverside Estate appears to have pretty poor reception on both Vodafone & O2. There are a few small random windows of reception, including at the end of the old ferry jetty opposite Coldham Hall but even then its only good enough for making & receiving calls and texts.

It was a cooked battery. The engineer from Horning Pleasurecraft said he could smell a cooked battery when he was in the engine bay and had the battery box open. We had the entire domestic bank replaced and since then all CO alarms have behaved.

We cruised through Bargate on Saturday afternoon, a few boats mudweighting in the breeze

What a day, my ears feel like crispy bacon, despite lots of factor 50…

Today's diagnosis, one cooked battery so I've bitten the bullet and replaced them so hopefully no more being awakened by a CO alarm...

We’ve been out of Cove this afternoon, all four CO alarms have behaved themselves, even the one in the engine bay. Our neighbour has remained in the Marina so we’ll see what happens later tonight…

We’ll have the batteries checked, they seem to be performing ok but we have little idea of when they were installed and what their performance was prior to us purchasing the boat. All alarms have been “normal” since 12.30am, the digital alarm in the mid cabin is reading “all clear”. I’m waiting for our neighbour to awake, to see if he has his heating on. There is an engine bay vent and another through hull fitting on his boat close to our mid cabin porthole, no idea if his diesel heater exhausts on this side of his boat…

It’s been blustery all day but has calmed somewhat now. We are moored at the western end of the western basin at Cove with a shed to our stern so the wind tends to swirl around and push us to starboard. We’ve had nothing running today that would generate CO. To port beyond the finger quay there’s a Broom 30 and we haven’t seen its owner since the weekend. To starboard is a boat which I suspect has had its blown air heating on earlier this evening, and probably also this morning as the owner and partner are in residence (I believe they live aboard). This could be why the CO alarm in our fore cabin was sounding when we arrived this morning. we’ve ventilated the boat and it’s now cold but CO levels are lower (12 - 13ppm). It’s going to be along night…

We opened up Mystic Lady this morning after a few days away to find the CO alarm in the fore cabin was going off. There were three CO alarms fitted to the boat when we purchased her earlier this year and all appeared to be working when tested. All had a date of manufacture in 2017 so we decided to replace all of them, just in case they were reaching the end of their useful lifespans, and we how have a digital sealed unit for our main sleeping cabin (mid cabin), one in the salon, one in the fore cabin and one in the rear cockpit, above the engine bay. This evening, the alarm in the mid cabin went off, followed by the one in the salon. We immediately vented the boat by opening windows and the door to the cockpit, the digital alarm was showing 36ppm but has dropped to normal now. The curious thing is we haven’t used any pathing that could be responsible for producing CO. We do not have gas on the boat, the oven & hob are electric and we haven’t used the diesel heating for a week. We haven’t fired the engines up since they were serviced last week. I wonder if our neighbours have had their diesel heating on and the exhaust fumes have been drawn into our boat… The digital alarm is now in the main salon and it’s showing a slowly increasing value of 17 - 19ppm… very worrying as we can’t determine where the source of CO is

Did you say coasters?

Pulls Ferry, Norwich I was able to identify and one of the few photographs containing people, including my grandparents (front left) and my aunt (at the back) she’s the only surviving individual of this group, which includes my father’s brothers