[Investigations Into Speeding Vessels]

Bloody noisy as I recall

[Virgin Boater Here]

Bath tub or flat boats can’t be beaten for space and ease of mooring everything on one level. 
Keep an eye on size and think 34 foot boat for four and a 34 foot boat for 2 there’s the space right there

shore power

bow thrusters

and your golden. 
and a personal bit , I hated cramped boatyards where it’s a faff to moor when bringing it back

[Another Sad Day.]

As was taught to me, my instructor noted that any activities around water seem benign, safe and calm. 
when in fact water is not a happy medium and is always trying to kill you and can easily do so in many ways. 
I don’t know the circumstances of this tragic event but when you sit think of the many ways things can and do go wrong and sometimes, more scary, do so slowly it’s worth remembering that it’s trying to kill you all the time. 
Ive seen drunk people on the quayside, kids with no life jackets sitting in the bows,  crew jumping onto the bank, walking over nests of ropes, trying to control 8 ton of boat with a rope and the list goes on. 
what’s worse? I still do stupid things I main about. 

[Thank You Nhs ..... ?]

Gratitude? Sense of entitlement?

you do realise this service isn’t provided but payed for?

Its a service payed for by workers in this country to be used by those in need and sometimes by those who have yet to contribute and those who need it more than most. 
NHS isn’t a gift it’s a paid for service. 
that said, bad behaviour is bad behaviour and no excuse  

[Who Is The Leccy Fairy?]

3 hours ago, CambridgeCabby said:

I still fail to understand why when all of these new posts were installed the payment method was not set up to the use of debit cards instead of the need to purchase electricity cards and the inherent expense involved in this .

 

Oh the security risks! Card reader anyone?

[Where Have All The Ducks Gone?]

What must be considered is that The Broads is no way natural.

After reading the many interesting posts in the archeology section plus history and personal memories the only conclusion you can draw is that humans must regulate and control the area.

Whole courses of rivers have been made or straighten out to suit. I was amazed to find out that the bit that goes in front of the Abbey was in fact, man made.

Trees growing right up to the bank? Not back in the day.

Its like we are talking about the landscaping around the M25   

Reminds me of the time we aggressively cut down the the trees on the side of the rail tracks. Got a letter complaining about the wholesale destruction of habitat until it was pointed out that in the days of steam, no growth was allowed due to fire risk and in fact , teams were employed to keep the sides bare of growth.

   

[New Member]

Staggering to think how times have changed. 
My first hire still had gas heating and that was in early 1990s

[Dear Microsoft]

As a side note, a lot of the time it’s simply the tech is old and out of date. 
You may have a graphics card that’s worked well for the last five years but is no longer supported by its manufacturer and it’s drivers are out of date. 
same with software, still works but it’s 3 generations old

I run a gaming pc. Nothing is more than 2 years old, Windows gets reinstalled every year, never had a problem 

the problem with Microsoft and Apple is that people hold on to their tech a lot longer now and keeping everything current is getting a serious problem 

If your keeping a proper back up of data then a reinstall will work wonders

[Broads Authority Financial Position.]

Up go the red flags for the future. 
As usual many thanks for reporting this. 
Your on my Christmas card list🙂

[Bruce 2 : Hireboat 0]

Tricky one. I’ve seen anglers boats in all sorts of positions, pushed in the reeds, double weight moored at funny angles on the rivers and one swinging on a mud weight in the upper Ant near the split to Sutton. 

[South Walsham Or Malthouse To Mudweight?]

It’s all down to those bloomin electrons init?

[Can Anyone Help]

Also, and this is only from own experience, your going for 2 weeks count on a pump out. 
when I last did a fortnight and this was back in the day, I came very close to running out of diesel. 
For me and i really like cruising, 2 weeks was overkill and I visited places more than once and on the south side that’s a lot of distance.

I think I calculated it was about 1.5 litres to a mile but this was the days when you had a dip stick for the diesel. 
Oh and towels. Always more towels than you think

[Can Anyone Help]

Toilet paper-the ladies must eat it. 
 

run

[Bruce 2 : Hireboat 0]

6 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:

Weight and momentum perhaps? 

Your right!

8 ton of boat is still 8 ton of mass moving either on land or water

[Bruce 2 : Hireboat 0]

Hmm personally I think learning in a bog standard boat teaches you the fine art of control 

when I first started out the boat was the holiday if you get my meaning, destinations was where you moored up at night.  
so I spent hours cruising and learning each and every boat I hired

Because I knew I was going to own one, eventually 

it’s the end goal that counts, I wasn’t running mooring to mooring, pub to pub just messing about on the water

[Bruce 2 : Hireboat 0]

Homework at least for me it was. 
there was a book published back in the early 90s that describes every inch of the broads and had a section on steering and mooring 

plus I was a forklift driver and understood the rear steer principles. 
still made cock ups but it helped I went in off seasons at first

[The Broads Is Not A National Park!]

Ok ok, in a nutshell so I don’t have to read pages of arguments what is the objection to a national park?

i only day this as a toll payer and a long term holiday maker. 
My stance is I’ve been coming here since 1994, on and off and to be honest things feel stagnant and Indeed getting worse

[Can Anyone Help]

Hi

Its my home berth and I’ve left my car there without a problem as there is always someone around as it’s a mixed yard with privateers down one side and hirers on the other
It’s a very large boatyard well covered by cameras 

we used to shop for the week as you can always bring it back again also it gives you the option of staying in that really nice spot

[The Broads Is Not A National Park!]

Probably wrong here but won’t raising The Broads to National Park level help keep the area in the public eye?

I mean I work less than a hundred miles from it and most of my colleagues haven’t heard of it or know about it vaguely. 
However ask about the Lake District or exmoor it’s a different story

Because if those funding cuts come it’s going to be easier to cut money from places without National in the title

[Bruce 2 : Hireboat 0]

Made the mistake of mooring at how hill. 
Got hit several times but the most annoying was from a privateer who used a boat hook to fend off. 
Still, I could surround my boat with Bruces.  ......

[Calorifier / Engine Heating Up.]

Been there done that. 
so I stuck a micro switch on the lever and a red led on the dash. 
But what people don’t realise is that your exhaust is made out of rubber and that too melted. 
I also bought a cheap aquarium alarm that was set for 65 as 70 was melting point for my water lock. 
But above all, I do a visual. 

[Calorifier / Engine Heating Up.]

As above, raw water cooling separate from your hot water heating. 

The heating loop will convey heat from the hot water back to engine as it’s on the same primary circuit before the thermostat 

Your impeller dies then you really need to inspect your heat exchanger if you can’t account for any bits that are not in pump housing. 

I consider the impeller as a service item and it gets changed every year
 

[Back In Burgh Castle...]

I used to get a strange disconnect when I used to drive my artic to Great Yarmouth going past Stokesby on the A47 then around the yacht station 

it’s like two different worlds 

[Swt Carlton Marsh Reserve.]

I feel it’s the general trend to turn the clock back to before humans came along. 
Call me strange but acres of flooded land don’t do it for me. It moves nature away from me so I can’t stumble upon it. 
I used to love groups of water birds flocking  around  the boats but I don’t really see that as much as I did. 
How long before humans continued rubbing up against nature on the broads gets more erased and buffered and, here is the point, our boating activities starts to get really relegated in the interests nature welfare?

Mooring spots removed, rights of way not maintained and wild moorings restricted by a very powerful lobby?

[Day Boat Hire And The Disease]

From personal experience it’s not the army you need but distribution experts. 
The supermarkets. 
Sad fact the army is relatively too small now and when the supermarkets allowed cross stocking it really flowed.