On our recent hire with them we were very impressed with the company. The boat was as you describe - looked like vinyl flooring and indeed berths. The beds could have been more comfortable but it didn't seem too cold even though the weather got a bit chilly. The heating was most effective.
On our last visit we went from Acle to Wroxham on a rather breezy day. They must have kept the day boats in during the morning because of the weather then at some point decided it was OK, because we suddenly hit a wall of day boats heading South...
Fascinating. I'll have to wait for the one we were on to come out then.
I thought it was in very good condition, particularly considering it will have been on the go all season.
Before hiring this year I was a good boy and watched all the Broads safety videos.
I'm pretty sure at some point they mentioned that it is a Bad Idea to sit with your legs on the outside of a moving boat.
In any case it doesn't sound like a very good idea to me.
So maybe photos of boats for hire shouldn't show someone doing just that?
I think there might also have been something in the videos suggesting that life jackets are a good idea when on the deck of a moving boat.
When we were there the week before last there were very few boats in the yacht station. I was a bit surprised given that everyone seemed to have all their boats out.
I presume everybody was clogging up the Northern Broads (as we were later in the week).
Absolutely.
I'd walk past a row of boats looking rather the worse for wear then think that the next one looked pretty **** and span. Then realise that it was ours.
I was very impressed with Bridgecraft on our recent hire - they seem to be a very friendly lot.
I expect after the season they've just had they will have a busy winter, though there wasn't anything obviously wrong with our boat apart from a rather stiff throttle.
Yes that all makes sense. But based on engine hours and what we ran from the batteries, they shouldn't have been lower at that point than others when we ran the heating.
Unless we left the inverter on by mistake maybe.
And we didn't have any neighbours to notice or complain about a little light engine running....