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43 minutes ago, Paul said:
I've been trying to determine a method of working from home, though as a takeaway food delivery driver you'll understand it is not so easy. I have designed and built, in CAD at least a trebuchet which is theoretically capable of projecting a large egg fried rice, special curry, sweet and sour king prawn, two pancake rolls and a bag of prawn crackers to any location in the village.
The problem we still have to resolve is accuracy, our so far one and only test "cyber" firing delivered a set meal for two intended for the Old Vicarage to a meeting of the young mothers in the parish hall next door. They were not too upset but apparently a meal for two didn't go far with thirteen ladies in attendance.
That's cheered me up! A good start to the morning.
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On 17/03/2020 at 12:54, Regulo said:
So will Rene and I. I am not (quite) in the "vulnerable" age group, but Rene definitely is (don't ask, she'd kill me if I told you!). She insists we carry on, supporting our usual lunchtime haunts. This virus is out there, and can't be stopped, unless there's troops on the streets. I understand the reasoning behind the advice, but I don't see how it will help. If I get shopping for someone, I have to leave it on their doorstep - contaminated with whatever I've picked up in the shop. If I touch ANY public door handle, I've got it. If I sit indoors, it will not help one bit in the overall spread of this virus. Our economy will be decimated, with businesses going under, and great loss of jobs. So, we will carry on, as we always have, come what may.
While this virus is spreading very fast, one person infects on average only 2.2 people. Going out and touching a contaminated surface in a shop is not a guaranteed way to catch it. As someone else said, it is important to wash hands and avoid touching your face though. It's not as contagious as flu, but nastier to have.
I'm generally in the keep-calm-and-carry-on category, but this is very different. If everyone carries on with a stiff upper lip, this is going to spread far faster than the NHS can cope with, and the death rate will shoot up. Everybody has to do what they can. It might feel as if an indvidual's actions make no difference, but altogether how fast this spreads, and how deadly it is overall, depends on what we all do. Sitting indoors certainly does help the spread because you're not going outside contaminating surfaces, and coughing over people. People in Italy and China aren't being kept near prisoners in their houses for fun.
On 17/03/2020 at 13:23, MauriceMynah said:I'm with you Ray (Regulo), I'm 65, type 2 diabetic and at the moment, gout ridden, BUT, I shall go to Tesco either today or tomorrow, I shall visit my normal haunts and if I get the bloody thing and snuff it, the rest of the world can shout "I told you so".
The problem is that the NHS will do their best to save the life of anybody who gets it, and resources are limited. So anyone who decides to carry on and take the consequences if they get it impacts other people, not just themselves.
I am not an epedimiologist (I can't even spell it) but I am a scientist and have read the work Imperial is doing - and sobering reading it is too.
(I also realise that it's perhaps a bit rich to have ignored this forum for months and then come back only to criticise people, but this is very important and I couldn't leave it be)
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1 minute ago, SwanR said:
We were in something of a similar position on Zircon Emblem recently. I'm sure that boat goes under Ludham Bridge a lot of the time, especially at low tide, but we knew there was a chance that if the river levels were high, we wouldn't get up the Ant. It seems to happen frequently in October. We've also hired both Silver Emblem and Moon Beam (when it went from Horizoncraft at Acle) and we stayed along the Bure and Thurne on both of those. It's fine when you're on a short break but is restrictive when you're out for longer.
However I would never encourage people to try any bridge thinking that the gauges are inaccurate and you've probably got more room. To me, as a hirer, it's not worth the risk.
I don't think it's that hard to sight along the top of a boat and see if you have clearance for a bridge (i.e. can you see the underside?)
Whether the tide/current/wind will let you abort by the time you realise it isn't going to fit is probably another matter.
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On 29/10/2019 at 14:25, Cockatoo said:
No wonder she didn't want to be named. I wonder what she does consider "something major"
Something that would directly affect her?
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6 minutes ago, Chelsea14Ian said:
For some years we have had long ropes,a pain at years but very useful at times.
When we hired on Lough Erne we got two short ropes and that was it. Presumably to reduce the chances of us wrapping one of them round the prop. But it made mooring very difficult at times.
Having four decent length ropes on the Broads this year was luxury, because normally once we had one rope on there was no trouble getting the other one on land to pull the boat round - which is why we got caught out when for once the stern had swung out so far that the stern rope didn't reach.
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28 minutes ago, Chelsea14Ian said:
Moored at Thurne, far from.easy very windy.Took us a few attempts to moor.Called into the Lion for a drink.Marina and I spent a fortune in the Ramblers as always Just help three boats to moor, being so windy.Off early tomorrow crossing B/waters.
We had a bit of fun in Thurne dyke on a bit of a breezy day. Got on shore with a rope at the front, but the stern swung out across the dyke and didn't want to come in. The stern ropes weren't long enough to reach the shore.
It took longer than it should have done to think of tying the two stern ropes together to make one longer one so we could pull the stern in....
Nice place for the night though.
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2 minutes ago, SPEEDTRIPLE said:
I did put an NBN window sticker in Lightning, but one of the other owners removed it. So i can only fly the burgee off the stern grab rail. I`d like to make an A4 laminated placard thingy, but don`t know how to do it, plus don`t have a laminater.
Can't you use the "static cling" hire boat versions?
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Having spent a couple of weeks on the Beam of Light recently, I'd say that the Diamond 43 is an excellent design.
Goes under everything (OK, probably not Potter), roomy inside, easy to get in and out of, excellent visibility from the upper helm (not so much from inside, admittedly), split canopies so you can have it open on the non windy side or away from the quayside, decent sized kitchen. And you don't have to open the canopies and get everything wet if it's raining to get under low bridges.
I wouldn't want to hire anything else, and if I was looking to join a syndicate, I'd want it to be Thunder (or Lightning).
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I saw this on a trip to Bristol at the weekend.
I don't recall seeing anything quite like it on the Broads, but the canopy design looks quite Broads-y.
Does anyone know if this is an ex Broads boat? Just curious...
Not the best of photos, but it was a bit of a way away.
We were visiting the SS Great Britain, which is well worth seeing if you're in the area.
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3 hours ago, Gordon said:
I have on many occaissions felt very sorry for hirers, to the point where I believe they really haven't been properly informed as to the true nature of the lack of mooring. Many is the time I have sat on the boat at ,say How Hill or St Benets at dusk and watched a hire boat go by in either direction and thought where on earth are they going to moor?
Have they really been informed of the situation? I don't believe the hire manual helps in this situation, and certainly the Broadcaster does not make it particularly clear how dire the situation can be. The lovely glossy hire brochures that show the
Hire boats do have the advantage of being able to take refuge in hire boat yards, which made things relaxing for us.
In August it wasn't much of an imposition on the Northern Broads to look for somewhere to moor while leaving enough time to make it to a boat yard before dark if we didn't find something.
As it was, we didn't have any trouble, but it meant we didn't have to worry.
Our manual said we should aim to be moored an hour before sunset. It didn't offer any advice on how easy that might or might not be.
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10 hours ago, DAVIDH said:
I can remember mooring at Yarmouth between the bridge and the actual Yacht Station - the part that's now reserved for yachts, many years ago. We would always aim for a mooring there as it avoided paying the £10 charge to overnight. Of course, there were no rangers to tie the ropes for you so you had to guess the right amount of slack on your ropes. This particular night, I awoke and distinctly felt as though I was leaning to one side. I poured a glass of water and stood it on the table to see if it was my imagination - I had after all just awoken in the middle of the night.
The spirit level glass told me it was not my imagination. I quickly got dressed and expected to see one of the ropes holding the boat tight against the mooring post. It certainly was. The boat wasn't out of the water but it had tightened the rope so much, it was difficult to untie. When I did eventually manage to loosen it, the boat dropped down about a foot, then bounced back up again, which must have been a shock for Doreen inside. I had to tell her all was OK and not to worry. I retied the rope appropriately, and retired back to bed, heart thumping and vowing not to make the same mistake again. I often think now that the £13 I pay to overnight at the Yacht Station, is the best value mooring on the Broads because of the expert rope tieing!
Curiously enough, this is where the boat I was referring to had tied up.
We were at the upstream and of the yacht station. The offending boat passed us after sunset, and we did go to try to warn them about being careful to tie up, but couldn't find them.
The next morning I discovered them beyond the yacht station.
They must have slept through the whole thing, or maybe not even made it back to the boat that night?
Seeing the boat at such an angle to the horizontal was quite an impressive sight.
The rangers aren't just useful for tying up - advice/help on untying is good also. On our way back North, we passed a cruiser where they had made the mistake of taking the wrong rope off first, and were having great difficulty sorting themselves out.
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6 minutes ago, YnysMon said:
Yes it was. It's lovely and peaceful (that's a term I've been using a lot on this trip). We like being on a pontoon too, no worries about rise and fall of the tide. The only thing is that the guard rails in the middle of the pontoon make things a bit awkward. It would have been better to have been moored either end.
Yes pontoons are good - but seem to be extremely rare on the Broads.
I did get a bit paranoid about leaving enough rope for tides - I think I tended to rather over-do it.
Then again I saw an excellent example at Great Yarmouth of why it's important to get it right - someone came in after the yacht station closed and tied themselves up. At low tide early the next morning the boat wasn't exactly horizontal, but at least they didn't rip the cleats out.
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3 hours ago, YnysMon said:
We had another lovely quiet evening. There was a small amount of credit left on the electric post, and we plugged in so that I could use the microwave to make us a quick supper (not the greatest – tinned burgers, tinned veg and instant mash - but at least it was filling and quick).
Must be a nice spot for the night.
We called in there during the day to visit the mill. Unfortunately there wasn't enough wind for it to go round, but it was still very interesting getting to see everything inside.
We didn't have a wherry for company though.
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1 hour ago, Kron said:
You've most definitely got the bug ...... you'll be back, of that I am certain!
It's interesting...on the train back from London this week we briefly ran alongside the Thames, and I realised I was seeing the river as a way of getting somewhere, rather than something that looks pretty but gets in the way when you want to be on the other side...
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15 minutes ago, SPEEDTRIPLE said:
Very knowledgable, but maybe he should get out more?
Maybe he's another fan of Diamond 43s?
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10 hours ago, SPEEDTRIPLE said:
. I often phone the YS to get their advice if unsure.
I was quite impressed by the ranger at Great Yarmouth knowing the air draught of the boat we were in just from the name.
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6 minutes ago, YnysMon said:
l our next turn on her. The weather was certainly kind to us. We managed to go to Loddon, Beccles, up north and generally pootle gently around the Yare and all for £58 in fuel...which was a lot less than I’d expected.
That's pretty much half of what we used in two weeks.
Most days we didn't go very far, but towards the end we did rather up the pace.
8 minutes ago, YnysMon said:Mentally, I’m still on the Broads...chilled.
I've discovered that just looking at a nice picture of a boat on the Broads is quite relaxing...
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22 minutes ago, tim said:
Friday 12th July
Well, here we are the day I always dread, its hand the boat back by 9 ish, where did the time go?
Funny - when we got to our last day this year (after 2 weeks), it was a shame to have to hand the boat back, but it felt as if we'd been living on it for at least a month...(in a good way).
23 minutes ago, tim said:We had done all the packing the previous evening to make it simple to off load from the boat and into the car at the boatyard, my window vac wasn’t easily accessible and whilst Mandy is now happy to helm the boat, she wasn’t going to do it down the Chet, so we needed to clear the screens with tea and kitchen towels, it wasn’t easy steering and leaning over the screens but I managed it and wow, I could now see!
Actually we found it relatively easy - it bends a lot, but not many other boats around, and currents/wind weren't a problem when we did it. And no sailing boats tacking backwards and forwards!
There were places that were reserved for Mrs Coryton's superior skills and experience at the helm, but the Chet wasn't one of them.
25 minutes ago, tim said:If you can take another week of my ramblings I might just have another go next year, I just didn’t realise how long (well it does if you witter on like me) it would take to write
Oh please do, if you have the time.
I don't think you have to be someone who posts all the time on the forum for people to enjoy your tales.
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23 minutes ago, KaptinKev said:
Personally I think I might be one of the only one on the broads that love it when a boat passes by full steam ahead, with a nice rocking on the boat that is the pleasure that is being on the broads. Also at night when you get a slapping on the hull from the gentle waves is also for me a love of being on the Norfolk Broads.
No, you're not.
Something that surprised me on my first boating holiday was how stable the boat was most of the time - it was as if it was somehow running on rails.
Of course there were exceptions - fast boats going past (no speeds limits on most of the Lough Erne system) and being on the lower Lough on a windy day - that was less a nice rocking and more like being at sea.
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54 minutes ago, vanessan said:
Hit the nail firmly on the head there I think! I have no idea what the handover instructions include these days but it should be part of them surely? It wouldn’t really take too long to explain to a customer that waves breaking over river banks or rocking moored boats should be avoided would it? 🤔
You wouldn't think...
The skippers' manual we had was in a few places a masterpiece of vagueness.
Don't moor in the "lower reaches of rivers, where the current is very strong and the rise and fall of the tide is very large".
Where are the "lower reaches?"
"Watch your wash, especially when passing moored craft."
Watch for what? What shouldn't it be doing? (And for the really inexperienced, come to think of it, what does "your wash" mean?)
Elsewhere under Byelaws it says "Don't make waves" which is perhaps a little more useful but not much.
"Life Jackets are provided for each member of your party. Make sure that they fit properly and make sure that they wear them AT ALL TIMES."
In bed? OK I'm being a bit facetious but instructions like that aren't terribly helpful.
"Always reduce speed when approaching a bridge"
Doesn't that depend what speed you were going before? Reduce to what?
I'm being unfair because manuals are not easy to write, it is comprehensive and has a lot of very useful information in.
But it could be better in places.
Some pictures of what your wash shouldn't look like would be very helpful.
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3 hours ago, ChrisB said:
It is one of the best Broads posters I have seen, given my interests
And there's that 200 miles of waterways claim I mentioned recently in another thread.
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2 hours ago, Poppy said:
'Suitable GPS equipment' isn't what's required - except for the visually impared perhaps.
All that's needed is the goo old Mk 1 eyeball ! Keep an eye behind you. If you can see a significant wash YOU ARE GOING TOO FAST !
Some boat designs make it easier to see what's behind you than others.
And if my experience is anything to go by, when hiring a boat you are given no warning to watch your wash, or any way of knowing what counts as a 'significant' wash. Of course there is a warning in the skippers' manual, and everyone diligently reads through them, don't they?
I agree that ground speed isn't everything, but I don't think GPS speedometers do any harm.
If we had gone by the rev counter we would have had a very strange view of our speed, no matter which of the two different sets of numbers given at the helm we chose.
After all the different speed limits across the Broads are given in mph, not wash levels.
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19 hours ago, VetChugger said:
"Latest news" from 2017...
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2 hours ago, JennyMorgan said:
The Railways Act is quite clear on this matter:
Fascinating.
This one doesn't seem to have been repealed:
"For the greater convenience and security of the public, the company shall erect and permanently maintain a lodge at the point where the railway crosses on the level the turnpike road or public carriage road; and the company shall be subject to and shall abide by all such regulations with regard to the crossing thereof on the level, or with regard to the speed at which trains may pass the level crossing, as may from time to time be made by the Board of Trade.
If the company fails to erect, or to maintain, such lodge, or to appoint or keep a proper person to watch or superintend the level crossing, or to observe or abide by any such regulation as aforesaid, they shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding [F2£50], and also to a penalty of ten pounds for every day during which the offence continues after the penalty of [F2£50] is incurred."
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It looks to me as if the reason the upper graph starts where it does is because it's only showing actual measured results, whereas the bottom graph covers a longer time period because they've added reconstructed measurements from before people were doing measurements.