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1 hour ago, marshman said:
I wonder how often they are sanitising buses and trains between stops? Are they sanitising outside tables at pubs between customers? Are they sanitising play equipment i in parks between each usage?
I know you will all shout me down but I would suggest if you worry that much, you don't actually go out and use these items. These are by and large outside items and whilst I agree a day boat is often partially enclosed, I would rather use a day boat, than sit next to someone on a flight which many people are doing!!! Unquestionably washing your hands remains the best safeguard!
Totally agree.
Our briefings at work state that outside exposure risks are very low. Ultraviolet and atmospheric conditions really hurt the virus as with most other. There simply was no spikes after the mass meetings and beach sunbathing.
However enclosed gatherings are highly infectious as again, with other infectious diseases.
so as we humans retreat from the cold expect the infection rate to increase-
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14 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:
For all too many hirers it is all rather baffling. It is all very well telling newcomers to face into the tide when mooring but what is 'tide', what is a mooring? Obvious to all us clever Richards, but I have spoken to hirers and many don't moor, they park their boats. As for tides, errr, what are they? Yarmouth & Reedham could do with a few arrows saying 'park your boat facing this way', the arrows being adjusted by the rangers as the tide changes for example. A few 'lifejackets MUST be worn when mooring/parking' notices wouldn't go amiss either.
Great idea
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It’s a bit like learning to drive from reading a book.
There comes a time when you have to do it.
sure, the handbooks handy when you need to know where the gas shut off valve is or fridge operating instructions.
But that it ain’t going to help you moor. Not the feeling of itThe thing is, your on a massive boat and the pressure is on to go somewhere, to do something not inch around practicing stopping
I started out at the very start of the season in the smallest boat my family could fit in and over the years gained experience and moved up the year and boat size because I knew I loved boating and my goal was to own one on the sea and here.
To others, it’s just a holiday, no need for homework or serious thought because that ain’t a holiday that’s work-
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When learning to sail, my instructor taught that water was always trying to kill you.
I have since learnt that water is devious, gets you into a false sense of security, looks inviting and makes you forget.
So, in offshore sailing you quickly learn that going in may be fatal but here cause you can see eiter bank it seems more safe.
see what i mean about water?
When going along, my hand is never for away from the throttle considering how many paddle boarders there are not wearing hi viz lifejackets
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Personally, I go and follow my nose. Less like a tour more exploration.
Then if I see any pub I particularly want to be at, I book -
This government wants to build more houses
you can’t just keep breaking into existing services and adding on
one that is struggling is sewage treatment. The extra cost of returning fully treated sewage is huge and the companies are behind in their efforts
never mind when a large downfall makes them open the overflow gates
this could release a bit more slack in system at the river’s expense
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No way anyone should fall in by hitting wall unless mooring. Hope this turns out alright
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Yup and I see people sitting on bow and Stern with their legs over the side.
Hate to see what happens in a collision especially at how hill and LudhamI think the water has this friendly reputation. Lies, it’s always out to kill you
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7 hours ago, MauriceMynah said:
Perhaps someone can correct me here, but I understood that any livestock that attached itself to a boat below the waterline, would be either freshwater or seawater but could not live in both. thus a boat normally moored in freshwater going to sea, would loose all Zebra mussels etc and on return would loose any barnacles. A free bottom scrape as it were.
True or fiction?
But it’s the body shells they leave behind when they die is a pain.
my experience is the slime dies but the shells and foot attachments remain-
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I know it sounds odd, but for us it was too hot.
Being a privateer, we are waiting for the weather to ease off a bit!
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Maybe not the future but....who are they upsetting by not fixing things and/or saving a bit more budget by not calling in emergency works?
what pressure are the general public going to put on them in these times when only a few boaters going to suffer?
14 hours ago, Turnoar said:Moor up in Yarmouth and wait for the bridge to open, plenty of room in the outer harbour. It’s the authority’s problem and they need to fix it! The least they can do is give them a berth foc until they do, slacking and not keeping their house in order is tantamount to denying the navigational right and if they get away with it for too long then there is a risk complacency might set in and one day the bridge is opened rarely or altogether shut permanently. I presume a third crossing is not too far off now, trust that will be reliable!
Surrey canal where I was born was filled and turned into roads much against local opposition and even one pub had converted itself for a canal side view. Experts even predicted the up turn in canal living.
All ignored, The right of navigation rescinded. Canal filled.
That bit of south london really would have benefited
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To the owners of boats on the Broads.
“Woodpecker”
A really fantastic kept wooden vessel and really friendly owners.
Cant tell you how nervous I was as came in to moor, felt like I was doing my class 1 again.
Sorry no pictures as I did not want to appear as a fan boy.
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I think the lack of keeping the water outside of the boat maybe the root cause a bit like you can never have too much fuel, except maybe when your on fire.
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The need to be visible. The reed edge makes great camouflage to a lot of colours. I notice the amount of dark clothing worn.
on main drags stick to the rules of the water as regards to stay in on the right
Make clear after dark you need a light a bit like a dingy light-
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Fun until you meet one in the dying light.
Moving along How Hill, low light conditions, Nav lights on.
See a flash of white, emerging at that bit at the end of the mooring that's reserved, thought it was a swan. It wasn't.
Turns out to be a lady cut down white shorts. Lucky I was creeping along at 3 knots or not? she may have heard me.
Fella behind her shouts, "what are you doing cruising at night?"
The Enemy replies using navy terms explaining we can.
one day there will be an accident, will boaters be made to pay?
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that's going to cause a stink
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Ok here it is
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1 hour ago, BroadAmbition said:
Sigh,
it’s obviously a Scrinsen Doodah
All boats have at least one in one form or another
Griff
I thought I saw BA on Barton Broad this morning, mud anchored . Either way the boat looked magnificent
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Hole to Chuck money
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Boat built in 1974.
At the back of the boat above the prop tunnel I’ve got this large metal cylinder with about 12 bolts around it.
It’s got a reinforced clear pipe going into it and I think it’s my bilge pump but I’ve never seen the like before.
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The equivalent Byelaws to the Colreg you mention are these ones I believe. A sort of catch all avoid collision at all cost and applies to all vessels.
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Thank you.
One rule in the col regs I didn’t know still applied was the one that’s says any master of a vessel shall do their best to avoid a collision, I may be paraphrasing that a bit.
Or as my instructor said “Don’t be dead right”-
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Does the BA rules out weigh the col regs?
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Just to add, if running the motor in weed keep an eye on your water intake and weed strainer.
sometimes you won’t know you have a problem until you ask the engine to work hard and that’s when you need it the most and that overheat alarm sounds
Day Boat Hire And The Disease
in Broads Chat
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Point of order here.
sweating sickness
Spanish flu
two outbreaks that came killed and disappeared and we have no real idea the makeup of these outbreaks.
covid is not unusual.
throughout time we have been battling virus and bacteria winning here and losing there (herpesvirus) most we can’t cure and humanity over time develop herd immunity.
Also this was forecasted. It was a matter of when not if.
Because this normally happens to those countries far away we forgot to be wary.
Don’t forget without penicillin we died of toothache.
This is the normal state of affairs for most living things on earth and I think covid has reminded us that we still have not conquered nature