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What type of cable is the 240v side? T&E, white or blue flex? On the 12v side, you might find the chassis was being used for grounding. That may cause issues with BSS and 2 wire checks (Section 3.7). That aside, BSS is mostly just checking connections are firm, everything is fused and batteries are secure, so nothing else obvious springs to mind. As a former auto-electrician, my initial gut feeling is, it's probably making work for yourself - and potentially using material which could be degrading due to age.

That's exactly where I was thinking. The big concern for me would that water would then channel in behind the dunes, rapidly overwhelming a lot of housing.

1953 in particular, as I've heard first hand from family members who experienced it, but yes. Been a while since I've been to Hemsby, but from what I can remember, there's not a lot of margin to the north of the currently affected area before you start to see a major risk of influx in a severe storm or tidal event. I presume justification for the works at Sea Palling was along similar lines, despite its fairly small permanent population.

The fundamental issue with planned neglect is the risk of a major catastrophic event. Sooner or later, erosion is likely to result in a sudden and unexpected event, which carries significant risk of fatalities. If that happens, the cost will very rapidly make £20m look like pocket change. Given the scale of fatalities in '53, local authorities ought to be more than aware of this.

Happisburgh area and to the north has always had major issues (including Shipden and a big bit of road around Trimingham). When I was at school in the mid 80s, we had field trips there and had longshore drift explained to us in great detail. Hemsby and further south seems to be a new phenomenon though. Something has obviously changed, but I suspect it's more likely to be Great Yarmouth harbour, or the offshore wind farms than climate change. It's very easy to see how Sheringham Shoal, Race Bank, etc could be pushing tidal energy away from the coast and down towards Yarmouth. The trouble is now, we're changing so much of the natural environment in such a short space of time, without studying the effects that ultimately no-one really knows the truth.

Depends how far back you're talking. Belaugh Broad and Norton's Broad could probably be categorised as such. Hudson's Bay possibly, through abandonment of the staithe - but that may be hard to separate from the land grab which closed Hoveton Great Broad.

It was very evident that recent storms brought levels up everywhere. Locally, the Great Ouse was extremely high. I also noticed videos online from Rufford Ford up in Notts showing record levels of water. What's notable now though is that the Great Ouse has come down dramatically and is actually relatively low for this time of year - currently about 2ft below the level where it causes flooding. That does tend to suggest a specific issue such as dredging worsening the situation on the Broads. Have BA done some or all of the planned dredging work below Yarmouth yacht station now?

RGO licences covers the Nene as well though, so the overall navigable distance is slightly more. You're also paying for the maintenance and power costs for locks, plus staffing in some cases. To be comparable, BA would also have to provide 48 hour free moorings, DIY pumpout facilities and long-term moorings from £116.68/m/yr. If they did, people would probably be less complacent about the cost of tolls.

The current job ad for the Head of Planning shows 6 direct reporting staff.

Conventional wisdom is replace at 50% and expect them to last 12 months - but that's in salt water. In fresh water, zinc develops an insulating coating, so the anode stops working and never erodes. Magnesium is best in fresh water, but pretty much dissolves in salt water. Aluminium is best in mixed or brackish conditions. I'd probably have said go with aluminium, as the river's tidal as far as Brownshill Staunch so there's potential for brackish water (it's not unusual to see seals at Earith). You may be better off taking Smoggy's advice though, as it's based on 1st hand experience. Looking at your image, I'd say just clean them up and see how they look. Believe it or not, my dad's Broom 30 actually came with a short mast and a small sail. The previous owner was a boatyard owner, who'd opted for all the coastal extras. I presume the sail gave some stability benefit in extreme coastal conditions, but I've never quite figured out how or when you'd use it.

Did they say what metal type are fitted? I'd probably be less concerned about replacing them, unless you plan on spending a lot of time on the lower tidal sections. Dom Buckley recommended fitting them to the boat I planned on buying recently, but he has also commented before now on the fact that most hire boats don't run them and don't suffer significant corrosion even after 20-30 years. Assuming your electrics are in order, corrosion should be pretty minimal even if your anodes are gone. If you have an earth leak issue, even new anodes can be gone in a matter of months.

That's really sound advice. Tides marine ones are also worth considering. Not cheap, but they include a couple of replacement seals in a holder on the shaft so you can pull and replace a seal whilst in the water.

Renogy RBM500s are worth looking at. £50 for a shunt and LCD display is pretty good value for money.

People need to start challenging his ability, rather than just complaining (that comment's not aimed at you personally Smoggy). I think the easiest way to start eroding the footings of his ivory tower would be making FOI requests for 5 and 10 year budgets and flood risk mitigation plans. If they don't exist, it highlights a lack of foresight and planning. If they do, inaccuracies and poor forecasting or planning will soon start to come to light.

The main saviour with the Great Ouse is the washes between the Old and New Bedford Rivers, which are basically just huge sinks for flood water. It's not perfect though. The wash at Earith Bridge regularly floods, leaving us cut off in Ely direction for weeks, or even months on end. Welney has similar, but worse issues. Flooding issues used to be a lot worse and I can remember back in the late 90s there was one year when the river came over and flooded half of the road on The Waits in the middle of St.Ives. Low Road past Jones' Boatyard's entrance through to Fenstanton also flooded. A mate of mine drove it in his Land Rover and the water actually came over the bonnet. I lived in St.Ives at the time and communting was a nightmare for months on end. After that issue, the road around the entrance to Jones' yard was raised and drainage improved. More recently, the river was subjected to heavy dredging around Earith Bridge, which seemed to make a big difference and reduced the level of flooding across the flood plains around Holywell. Which is why I wonder whether the dredging in Great Yarmouth might have an effect on the current issues on the Broads. Ironically, the Fens in general actually have the opposite problem. They're drying out and dropping substantially due to shrinkage of the land. In the mid 19th century, posts were hammered into the earth down to ground level at Holme Fen. When they first went in, the ground was dropping 9 inches a year. They're now 4m above ground level due to peat shrinkage as the land dries out because of the drainage schemes.

His construction techniques seem more appropriate for the challenge than Longbow's, but you have to question whether he'll ever manage to take to the water with it. Must be 10+ years now and it seems like progress may have stalled a bit?

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My grandfather was a bomber pilot in WW2 and involved in one of the raids which was instrumental in stopping Germany, so not suggesting anything remotely along those lines. It's just abundently clear to me that population growth is out of control and that something needs to happen to slow it down, otherwise all of the lesser things we try and do like recycling, etc are largely pointless. I think it's in the film "Age of Stupid" (but might be Fahrenheit 911) where they point out that developed countries are using something like 4 times as many resources as the world can sustain. There's a lot of left wing propaganda in the green movement, but I'm more right leaning and can still see there are a lot of truths within the narrative. The big problem is it needs a unified, global and unselfish response to address - but modern society seems incapable of behaving in that way.

The big concern with these things is what happens to the materials as they degrade and microplastics. There are already pretty shocking levels of microplastics in a lot of our rivers and it's fairly self-evident that they're significant carcinogens. I went through a big eco-friendly phase, growing and hunting most of my food, composting everything, etc. I gave a lot of it up in the end, as it's fairly clear that recycling, etc is all pretty pointless until we realise and accept that the only way to mitigate damage to nature is to curb and possibly reduce population numbers.

I was just about to say something along the same lines, as your earlier comment about the lack of path puzzled me slightly. Hoveton primary school (which must have been closed 40+ years now) used to be on the left just before Palmer's Lane coming from Hoveton. I think the pavement probably exists because some of us used to walk to school from Hoveton and others from Horning.

That's just brought back some memories. I had a couple of RC boats in my youth - one built on the Classic 27 hull, one the Powles 53 - both taken from original prototype testing models. They both had Enya engines. I'm sure the Powles was 25cc.

Well produced and informative video. Only thing slightly offputting for me, as someone who grew up in the area was a few mispronunciations. Antingham seems to have gained an L in the voiceover. Honing is pronounced Hone-ing (hone as in bone). Everyone I know also pronounced Ebridge as Ebb-ridge (like the ebb of a tide), but that may just be a local variance (I went to school in Stalham for a while with people who lived in Dilham, Honing, etc). It is a shame the NW&D hasn't been restored by now, even if just as somewhere accessible to smaller, or unpowered craft. The fact it only took 100 navvies 2 years really highlights how easily it could be done. They're dredging fens near where I live at the moment and based on their rate of progress, I'd imagine you could probably achieve the task in a similar time frame, but just a couple of men with modern excavators.

The last one sold at Jones' definitely wasn't a 5 cylinder. It looked like it was a 4.220HE, but was described as a 4.150HE exactly the same as Bikertov's.

I saw a group of young rowers down by West View Marina. They certainly didn't seem to be having any issue with currents, sat not moving in the middle of the river. The road at Earith regularly floods and the EA have a hand in whether the road gets closed or not. If that's anything to go by, their hours of work are strictly 9-5 weekdays, which seems ludicrous to me. Must be really frustrating for you!

I'm really surprised the SSA is still in place. I biked down to Earith over the weekend and the river is high, but not especially so. Only one of the Earith sluice gates is raised and even then only slightly. If the SSA is still in place, I'm surprised Earith isn't wide open to try and shift as much water as possible before we get more rain.