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Cheesey69
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I am well doom mongered, until the next time.
Great news.
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who provided helpful suggests for winterization.
So I open the door to Forever Autumn filled with trepidation and what did I see?
Nothing.
A bit of mould on a wooden chopping board, shower curtain a little spotty but nothing I could not handle.
I was told to leave all vents open and I did.
A bit of aggro because someone had removed the quick connection from the fresh water tap and filled the tank up.
On with the water pump and it worked first time and no leaks.
Opened the engine hatch, replaced weed filter lid (with a touch of silicon grease on O ring)
On with all the thru hulls and on with the diesel tap.
A bit of pre heat and the mighty BMC 1.8 burst into life first turn.
Nice to see the 150 pound battery charger performed nicely for a 131 days
Rush to see the blue marine safe anti freeze flow out of the exhaust.
Thanks to freedom boats for how to properly anti freeze the system.
The only downer was I forgot the washer so a happy 3 hours with mop to clean the topsides.
And the ropes are home for a pillow case wash.
right I'm off to untangle 20 meters of rope.
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5 hours ago, BroadAmbition said:
Day trip to Norfolk today to check on boat / outlaws / parents, all of whom live within 5 miles of each other and none of whom I've seen since October. Home tonight. 340 mile round trip. 😴
Please don't take this the wrong way or get 'The Hump' but just how is a 340 mile round trip classed as 'Staying Local'?
Griff
Read minimise not stay local.
Been changing the motorway signs to "Minimise Travel"
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yup, that's the hand out I mentioned a few weeks ago.
Its very clear. Although mentioned, its asking you to minimise travel, its not telling you to stay local. Hopefully it will put that issue to bed.
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Service or work on the engine and said security of engine.
But set that against the increase of space with an outboard.
As always in boating there is a compromise somewhere-
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For me it seemed that the boating world in particular is geared toward diesel as the fuel of choice and in particular for the Broads.
so that ruled out a lot of boats that caught my eye.
But the advantages of an inboard Diesel engine far outweigh any advantages of a petrol outboard.
From increased power generation to hot water and heating.
And don’t forget BSS is less of a headache for diesel power
But the compromise was that we had to have a bigger boat and that costs -
Day trip for me too and I gladly do it in a day
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38 minutes ago, floydraser said:
Can't do the 140 mile trip until after 12th. Unless of course, someone would like to get married onboard the Denham Owl next Tuesday? Ok a funeral? Damn, I thought not.
Or I could join the list of confused people by claiming to be very confused over the issue of whether or not travelling 140 miles accross 3 counties could be counted as staying local?
Looking at the weather forecast for next Tuesday I reckon all the rules will be chucked out of the window. Brace yourselves seaside towns! What do you mean the toilets are closed?
Once again with the local thing.
They would like you to stay local but no one’s going to fine you for not.
so I’m doing the 300 mile round trip for a day to get her ready for the 12th.-
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Overnight from the 12. Travel from the 29 March.
Thus is the law and governmental advice we have been provided with by the cabinet office-
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The bureaucracy is expanding to service the bureaucracy
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Yes now but what about a future government?
Ive got a government ID anyway but you give a little now but to what end?
freedoms listed above are optional but once you agree to carry an id backed by fines. The law of unintended consequences applies.
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3 hours ago, Mouldy said:
I’m in favour of carrying an ID card. If you’ve nothing to hide, what’s the problem? As has already been said, there are already so many methods by which personal data is collected, an ID card really is not much more.
Do you have curtains or blinds at home? If you have why? You have nothing to hide
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So some people hated the idea of Identity cards.
Might as well have them now and be required to carry them.
One card holds your id barometric details, drive license and vaccination.
£100 fine if you cant produce it.
Are we a free country or just a controlled country pretending to be one?
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I guess it depends on how you see the Broads.
By water, special.
On foot and car not very impressive.-
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Happy birthday.
I just want to be on my boat.
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Two different things happening here,
One is protest and the up holding of the common good in times national emergency and does the government have the right to suspend your rights.
The other is the extension of the policing and protest bill.
The first I agree with as long as there is a need. The government are proposing to extend for another 6 months which makes me wonder.
The second is a much more serious thing that could stop you protesting at any time deemed inappropriate by the police or government for something as trivial as being too noisy or an inconvenience to the public.
Say, for instance, they decide to weld shut the swing bridges on the Broads and you decided to stand outside network rail holding a placard. Someone inside sees this, decides your being too noisy or possibly causing an obstruction. The police will have every right to move you on.
The right to peaceable demonstration has effectively been removed.
still you could always write a strongly worded letter
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Call me a leftie but how quick do people wont to revoke our rights?
Oh yes, until its your rights to do what you want to do then you'll moan!
like say, right of navigation.
very easy to revoke.
rights of access.
hmmm
I dont agree with them, but I agree to their rights of protests.
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Just how far is our concerns up the BA's agenda?
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From my small standpoint and my experiences within outposts of government bodies, you have got to dig for the underlaying tendencies of those that lead the executive.
Human nature makes people lean toward one opinion or another.
Or to the path of least resistance.
I have the feeling that the BA seems out of touch with the landowners or with the EA or whomever.
We need more wins, mooring and facility solutions because a Broads without free moorings is in a death spiral.
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As always it’s the boater who suffers. As has been said before, the BA has got to beef its self awareness up and start striding for those it’s supposed to be supporting.
moorings are getting critical but hey we have a great visitor center.
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18 hours ago, JennyMorgan said:
Wrexham, that is well North!
Bloody spull ceecker
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Tides, longer between moorings, less wild moorings. Less Towns that are built around the boater eg potter and Wrexham. Less water points and the big one, fear of not getting back to yard
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16 minutes ago, FreedomBoatingHols said:
This issue of having to stand in a centre-cockpit cruiser to get a view is true of many such designs to be absolutely fair. Because the canopy rises and falls on a sloping track so that there a flat(ish) roofline to be able to navigate bridges. The saloon is raised inside too (to accommodate the engine and provide a further raised helm area so the captain can see over the forward roofline), but the rest of the saloon seating is lower and provides hardly any view over the rising sides.
The early Alpha centre cockpits got around this with a raised helm and bench seat, with the galley off to starboard at a lower position, but most other designs suffer from this issue.I've since learnt that in all forms of boating, compromise seems to be the word.
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13 minutes ago, RS2021 said:
Has anyone on here hired one of Richardson's new boats like these? To me they have always seemed to look good, but I'm not sure about their practicalities. I moored next to one once and saw that the occupants had to stand up to see out of the boat and enjoy the view. They look as if they are great on top when the weather is good, but have no view when its raining. Wondering if anyone has been on them and can confirm if this is right or not?
Broadsman. great boat, modern tech coupled with electrics and a total lack of wardrobe space and those little Knick knack cubby holes.
And those showers that wets the floor for ages so you get wet feet every time you use them.
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Times, They Are A Changing!
in The Broadscot Lounge
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Remember visiting it when it first opened. There was a wimpey around the corner but the old man said lets try it.
Afterward he said it would never catch on as fish and chips was the only food fit for fingers.
From that moment on poor old wimpeys was doomed.
I miss the Big Bender {not the old man!} and knickerbockerglory