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In the interests of the environment and fuel use how do the forumites feel about a pontoon mooring somewhere around Breydon Bridge for boats to moor at low tide to await a following tide to whisk them up the various rivers thus saving fuel. I am aware of the small pontoon below Breydon Bridge for boats awaiting air draft through the GY bridges but this should not be used for the purpose I described. Personally, I just run my boat's bows into the sand/mud around Breydon Bridge and perhaps do a bit of fishing or have a bit of lunch to await the tide but this is not viable for large cruisers. Obviously a shore connection would not be allowed to stop people mooring there to visit GY.

Does MM still run his boat on homebrew biodiesel?

I think the main aim of lowering speed limits is to encourage motorists to move onto the main arteries where they can.

I believe some boatyards already run their boats on biodiesel, however I could be corrected on this issue. As getting a discount on your fish and chips, pigs may fly.

In the eyes of this beer holder I have been fed up with football all my life. It has been shoved down my throat when at school and it the ball came anywhere near me I would just kick the damned thing any way, just as long as it was away from me. Now, cross country running, cycling, badminton was ok for me but not to the extent that it took over my life as it appears that it does with many people with football and I was pretty damned good at all of them. Having been bored out of my box at work, in the work's canteen and in the pubs with everybody assuming that everybody is interested in football became annoying. I remember one person at work who started up a conversation with me regarding football and I told him that I did not have the remotest interest in the sport. Apparently he was deeply insulted by my comment, not that I cared anyway. Another chap who was known a "sooty", nothing racist about the name but people said he looked like one of Harry Corbett's puppets would have the day off next day if his team lost. What a sad man to let football to affect his life like that and let his work colleagues down as they had to take up the work that he covered between them. Football is boring, seeing the players performing stupid little dances, sucking their thumbs and cuddling each other for just kicking a ruddy ball into a net and being vastly overpaid for doing it just amazes me.

As a person who finds football the most boring subject in the World, who gives a damn anyway. . 22 overpaid blokes kicking a ball between two goalposts. What? Yawn!

I'm not worried, I am quite aware how long standing members of forums of any subject tend to talk down new members with condescending comments. Water off a duck's back mate.

Sorry but I am unaware of that thread.

By all accounts the top of the wreck at Sutton Broad has been removed and paid for by the land owner. Although that was one of my favourite overnight mooring spots it is no longer possible to use it due the boat's concrete hull which remains there under the water so do take care there. Thanks to the land owner for tidying the spot up and I don't blame him for not removing the hull as that could be an expensive task. No doubt it will over the years fill up with silt and be overgrown with reeds.

Thanks Robin for the information.

At the outset I will say that I am totally uninformed regarding this what was once a very valuable crop. What does the team think about the possibility of reviving the harvesting using modern equipment as is done in Europe?

MM: You do not need vacuum bags to store booze.

Perhaps using the duck tape on the cats might improve things.

If the boat was put in the dinghy moorings where the other boat was it would probably obstruct the dyke and cause problems for mud weighters using their dingies to get ashore. Also it would certainly cause problems for dayboats that use the dyke.

Yep, there is Black Shuck, an horrendous hound that haunts the banks of the rivers on cold windy winter nights and the ghost at Acle Bridge who was apparently a local bully who was set upon by his neighbours and had his throat cut and his tongue pulled through the hole giving him a "devil's necktie" and he was hung over the old Acle Bridge. Apparently he hangs around the area.