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Thiswan
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So sorry Alan , Sincere Condolences .
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Yes, thanks I thought it strange can't imagine it with no boats.
My daughter and I moored overnight a number of years back and my daughter woke me in the early hours "There's a gang of Girls on the boat Dad " so there was on the roof! by the time I got outside they'd gone (Thank goodness what could I have done?)They'd thrown the lifebelt into the water and pinched the mop which was kindly replaced with a spare from the attendant the next morning. thankfully the belt was still attached!
No, I'll stick to the day in future. sure we'll make the best of it next March whatever.
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I'm having a week on the southern Rivers in March next year and had thought of stopping off at Norwich Yacht Station but I now understand your not allowed to moor during the winter months.
I wasn't expecting it to be manned or anything but it seems odd that you can't just moor for an hour or so.
I know we could moor outside the city but it would be a bit difficult getting in as we have a dog.travelling with us. my fault for being a cheapskate and going out of season I suppose.
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7 hours ago, freespeech said:
What a hideous magazine cover.
That's inforced PC getting a bit OTT now.
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As regards bridge heights Potter, Wroxham and Beecles etc may be iffy in the future if levels continue to rise What about fitting ballast tanks to future cruisers like a submarine (Not so drastic of course) but enough to lower the craft just enough to get under the bridge then a rapid pump out and back on your way, no idea how practical this would be but unless something is found the Broads range could shrink to most boats eventually.
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On 02/12/2018 at 22:51, C.Ricko said:
Rickos have a 2019 version, to be fair, the majority of bookings are via the Net but we have a shed load of other info in the brochure and other literature which when you consider the cost of the other publications we do it makes sense to combine them, hopefully our customers and the wider broads users find it useful
The 2018 edition is the best General Broads guide I have excellent!
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Chrome suddenly won't play some videos properly ( Really Zoomed In) . I haven't been able to find the problem so I've downloaded FireFox just to get around this this.
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On 27/11/2018 at 15:04, grendel said:
well my day started off badly, half way up the M2 heading for work, a warning light came up, battery warning, and a message electrical service required. at this point I also noticed the steering was heavy, oh I thought- broken alternator belt. I safely pulled into a service station that happened to be handy, upon checking under the bonnet, there is the alternator belt, its not broken, but isnt on the pulleys. hmm why I wonder, closer inspection revealed the alternator pulley way off alignment with the other pulleys.
well I carefully drove home, no electrics or power steering, then it was a two hour tussle to swap the old alternator from my old car into the new one, this achieved, it was time to look into the reason the pulley had failed - this pulley has a clutch in it to stop the alternator being overrevved. this one was freewheeling in both directions, when I removed the pulley the centre was allowing the outer to spin around it, the actual clutch part had seized. so car once again running, this is the second time my old car has saved the day by donating spare parts.
On 27/11/2018 at 15:04, grendel said:well my day started off badly, half way up the M2 heading for work, a warning light came up, battery warning, and a message electrical service required. at this point I also noticed the steering was heavy, oh I thought- broken alternator belt. I safely pulled into a service station that happened to be handy, upon checking under the bonnet, there is the alternator belt, its not broken, but isnt on the pulleys. hmm why I wonder, closer inspection revealed the alternator pulley way off alignment with the other pulleys.
well I carefully drove home, no electrics or power steering, then it was a two hour tussle to swap the old alternator from my old car into the new one, this achieved, it was time to look into the reason the pulley had failed - this pulley has a clutch in it to stop the alternator being overrevved. this one was freewheeling in both directions, when I removed the pulley the centre was allowing the outer to spin around it, the actual clutch part had seized. so car once again running, this is the second time my old car has saved the day by donating spare parts.
Now if that had happened on my car with an otherwise excellent Volvo D5 engine the loose belt would have taken out the Cambelt and wrecked the engine completely a few years back that is, in fact, what happened only the bit that started it all was the clutch/pulley on the A/C compressor. thank heaven for small mercies
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I hope Richardsons keep theirs I found the 2018 edition a great read with bags of broads information.
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If I've got this right this particular ship had further adventurers off Colchester it caught fire and the crew abandoned ship! she had her name change to "Carme"l after she was refitted I'd have called her lucky
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3 hours ago, webntweb said:
At the junction of the Bure and Yare August 82.
My wife was at the helm of Admiral 7 through Yarmouth. Immediately after I took the first pic I saw the bow of another coaster appear in front of the moored boat.
I said to my wife, are you OK with the other boat. She replied what boat - Oh I thought it was a wall.
She handed the wheel to me and I headed for the stern of the second boat (in the second pic).
As we passed through it was obvious the second boat was aground (third pic).
Since then, whenever the subject of the Broads comes up in family conversations, the usual comment is "Do you remember when mum ran that ship aground".
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What a wealth of infomation ! big thanks to all who replied I bet the people at the time could not imagine what would change in the future. I wonder what we have instore? Best not to think aye,
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1 hour ago, SPEEDTRIPLE said:
I remember back in the end of the 70s, or early 80s, we hired Kingfisher from Maffett Cruisers in Loddon (well, technically in Chedgrave as they were on the North bank), and saw Pacific Cruisers DC30 in Pacifics shed being refitted. It turned out a coaster hit that too on the Yare at Cantley. I think it happened more often than people think, as there were a great many hirecraft in those days constanatly on the Yare, and coasters going to Cantley and Norwich were quite common. In fact the first time we cruised into Norwich, i can well remember seeing a coaster moored outside one of the factories on the West bank of the Wensum in Norwich itself.
That takes me back to my first ever hiring in the early 70 ties "Angelina Bee" from Brundall first time out heading for Norwich coming past the old Power Station I looked behind and what seemed like a massive coaster was barring down on me I had no experience at all but knew I couldn't outrun him so I pulled over to the right didn't seem like a lot of room against the Power station mooring and prayed ! he went passed I went up and down again all ok what a welcome to boating . It obviously didn't, put me off though.
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Either my old memory is playing tricks or an identical occurrence took place at Reedham some twenty years apart.
One time in the early Nineties I remember mooring for the evening outside the Pub (Red House?) alongside the Sugar factory at Cantley it must have been around October as the factory was belching out stuff from the chimney. I noticed a Coaster tied up at the plant, in the morning the Coaster had gone and as we watched breakfast tv there was a report that a Coaster had damaged a hire craft at Reedham from the report I could see it was an Aston Boat and the family sleeping on board had had a lucky escape. Ah,I thought it must have been the very same vessel that was moored in front of us. Today I found an old report of the incident but it said it happened in the Seventies and the damaged boat was the Aston Penguin could two Aston boats be that unlucky at the same mooring spot. Tell me I'm not going mad
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15 hours ago, eddybear said:
http://norfolk.broads.org.uk I have often used this site when researching the history of various boats I have been interested in including my present boat, unfortunately, the site no longer seems to work which is a pity as it Contains so much information on so many boats which can be searched for by name/registration number etc
Does anybody on the forum know what has happened to it is there any other way to contact the owner of the site?
I'm glad you posted thought it was something wrong my end.
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3 minutes ago, grendel said:
( 6) toes that is
That's not one of those Norfolk jokes, is it? nothing to do with me
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Thanks, I'll take a look at the fleet nice and nostalgic if I remember right :)
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3 minutes ago, grendel said:
hire a boat from Martham boats, then if you cant get under the bridge - you are the right side to explore those quiet waters anyway (the number of days a Martham boat cant get under that bridge can probably be counted on the toes of one foot
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Sorry, what a can of worms I've opened on this my first post, perhaps I should have just asked what could be done about getting through the Potter Heigham bridge. Oh no, I think I,'ve done it again! sabbatical for me I think
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Vaughan- What you say seems logical I appreciate your views.
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have regularly hired on the broads since the early seventies but haven't been much lately just booked for next year the lure is too strong.
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I was thinking if any thought has been given to having some sort of control lock/barrier at Great Yarmouth to limit excessive tides as it seems that craft that could normally get under Potter Heigham and some other bridges can no longer do so and I believe some people are also experiencing more flooding than ever before. It would have to allow vessels to pass in and out to the sea of course. How such a scheme would be funded I have no idea ;) I suspect this subject has been broached before but I haven't been able to find any details.
Lpg Induction Hob, Anyone?
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Like the idea of a cooking hob that doesn't normaly get hot with no pan present but what if you get over familier and put your finger with a ring on too close. silly I know but!