marshman

Despite the fact that some people blame the so called Bure Hump on the situation at Potter, I am not sure that it convinces everyone! If the Bure Hump does exist can anyone explain why it does not hold back salt incursions? Salt incursions continue to come further up the Bure year after year - some 15/20 years ago the furthest they came upstream was Horning Hall Farm, then it became Horning Waterworks, this last year I think it was Swan Corner. Meantime comments on the dredging above the Bridge as if it doesn't happen - they have been dredging for some long time above the Bridge. Heigham Sound, Waxham Cut, Catfield Dyke, Horsey and the channel in Hickling have all been done, and this year above Martham Ferry, particularly around Dungeon Corner has been done as well. And for those with long memories, I can assure you Wroxham HAS got a lot worse. It is a wider arch which helps but 15/20 years ago there was hardly ever an occasion when I could not get under, often with a foot or more to spare, but it seems a lot closer these days! Perhaps it is all just about rising water levels? There is plenty of evidence all around Broadland of general water levels rising, and on threads some people have posted just how much they had risen over the last years - or do none of you actually believe it? Just why have they had to increase once again the height of the defences around GY - or is that due to the Bure Hump as well?

Andrew - I wouln't get too stressed about what is being said in some of the " Press" about cold weather at the end of the month just yet! It will get colder there is no doubt as currently it is unseasonably warm, and it is certain to get colder as it is still winter, but there are plenty of forecasts not predicting what you seem to suggest - it may well happen but there are plenty of other outcomes possible!!!!!

15 m length or have I missed something? Clearly I have because 4mm rope is string and 4 m is nonsensical. Could it be 4 strand but don't you need to know the diameter? Or am I just showing that I am suffering from having too much drink?

Try Buckenham - the nearby church of Hassingham is usually locked. Also out my way is Hemblington, a beautiful round towered church surrounded by open fields, immaculately kept and always open during daylight hours. These days, I really don't like going to funerals but I always go up to Hemblington Church and sit inside, or out as they have a lovely churchyard with a great bench, and have a period of reflection. I prefer to do that on my own, and not with others, and there, I can find myself at peace with the world. Its on one of my walks and I find it good to often pop in and reflect on things now and again.

Worthwhile sentiments but practically you do have to put the silt somewhere when you dredge, don't you? But as I say, talk to the Rivers Engineer - doing something proactive is positive!!!!!

The MN does say it all - repairing the steel piling and refurbishment of the timber work, but not closing the navigation up to and beyond the Staithe. I suggest the BA have read this thread and have now put a notice up saying the Staithe itself is closed - if not tell Broads Control and I bet it will be done. To be fair if they closed the navigation for the two months you lot, and people like the Nancy Oldfield, would be up in arms - although it is not enormous, I have never had problem turning in the turning area. Of course the ground is muddy, its marshy and muddy, and its winter - better now than closing it for two months in summer when its probably drier. And the walk from Gayes Staithe will give you an appetite and thirst and you had a chance to look in the gardens of those poncy houses and the opportunity also to nip in and view the Wherry Arch under the house! I doubt they are doing any dredging as it is probably not possible to get a mud wherry up there - I am sure they would like to just chuck it on the ground but that would make it more muddy! Thinking about it, where would they put the spoil but I suggest if anyone wishes to, ring up the Rivers Engineer and chat to him about the issues. In the past I have found him a very pleasant and approachable chap!! Trouble is, dumping a load of mud into a tipper would create more issues as it would all run out!!

You can buy a synthetic hemp equivalent called Polyhemp or Hempex - it has a similar feel but a much higher breaking strain neither will it tend to rot or discolour. It really is very good stuff and you would be hard pushed to tell the difference. https://www.ropeservicesuk.com/product-category/store/rope-products/marine-ropes/ In another life, always used to use these people and have purchased and used Polyhemp by the reel and without issues - its good stuff,and although synthetic, not hard on the hands either. Coils nicely too!

Shhhh - you will have the Mods taking you to one side!!!

When you are working the tides out at sea, it actually ,usually, gets easier less complicated. Broadland tides as your extracts illustrate, can get a bit complicated and as has been pointed out, whilst tables help, bubbles help more!!!

Depends what purpose it will serve - I have many different lengths and sizes and all come in handy although nothing is more than twice the length of the boat!!! Helpful that!!!!

Those Italian jobbies were fitted to many of that type of boat - must have been a bit thirsty!!!

Yes exactly! The incoming salt water comes in under the freshwater so the bottom is running one way, whilst the top another!! Simples really!! (I have always the Shore base tables, adjusted by my brain to account for Broadland idiosyncrasies!)

FF - I think you will find they have rationalised all the areas! In other words broadened the areas they now broadcast about - Look East now covers Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, and Essex ( and also repeats items just talked about in the main news!) which means we are getting reporters and news readers from these areas. What interest to someone in Corby is a bomb in GY? Its of little interest these days and I often just turn it off - bit like their weather forecast I am afraid!

The Aweigh app uses a 12 hr period with 6 hrs of ebb and 6 of flood i think - for what its worth, I don't think that is what actually happens in Broadland - neither can you apply the twelfths rule!!

On that well respected news channel Look East, that confirmation of allowing people home, was not given but merely hoped for! Apparently bits were still burning and now they have to go and check, after the fires have died down, that the gas mains are safe - they were unsure when this would be!!

Boys toys or just "Toys, boys!"

Local news now includes Cambridge and Northampton, such is the geography of the BBC's masters!! If it were to detonate and its near the East harbour wall, GY will have a new and pretty large boating lake by the morning!!!!

Going back to anodes - I know, wake up - most would recommend magnesium for the Broads I believe.

Its actually only a very short walk from the station - although trains stopping at Buckenham are limited I suspect!! Despite it being under the care of the Redundant Churches, it is quite dilapidated again to the untrained eye like mine - my chief interest at the time was seemingly discovering perhaps, the connection with the pubs name, as I was unaware of that. If you do get there, I guess you might appreciate the building more than I!!

Interesting really how many churches there are hidden away - only the other day whilst wandering north of the Yare, did I "bump" into the church of St Nicholas, Buckenham. Now in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund, it is interesting not just because of its location tucked away not far from a terrace of about 5 cottages and accessed only by a footpath across a field, but because it is probably one of the best examples of just 5 (in Norfolk) of a church with an octagonal tower - we have lots of round towers but octagonal are few and far between. It was a surprise when I found it tucked away in a little wood ,situated above Buckenham Railway Station. There was a little stand with some very old booklets and they contained another discovery, especially to those who may have wondered, of the origin (probably ) of where the name Beauchamp Arms. I have always thought that a strange name for a pub sat in the middle of nowhere but, others may know this too, I guess it derived its name from a Rector there, between !814 -63, the Revd T. W Beauchamp, who carried out considerable restoration during that time. He clearly had access to funds to do this and it may well have been connected to Buckenham Hall demolished some 60/70 years ago. At best the village seemed tiny, as it still is, but there was a ferry there, so some people must have used it - if I recall hidden in the reeds on the north side of the river, is the remains of the ferry jetty but I guess it was originally a fully fledged ferry able to carry carts etc. Someone somewhere will have a picture of it - I bet Pete Waller knows of one!!! The church is not entirely "barren" but still interesting if you are ever that way, if only for the splendid tower - someone knicked the bell many years ago, unquestionably to melt down, but that was noted for being unusual too, being from pre Reformation times!! The ignominy of it all having lasted so long, only to fall to a tea leaf!!

Perhaps in reality you are looking for something to prevent you actually buying a boat! So what if a window leaked - get it resealed! And that is unlikely to be the only thing in an almost 30 year old boat - you cannot get perfection in a boat! Bit like buying a house - there is always a compromise!!!

I am sorry - we only have ourselves to blame! Who amongst you lot go down the pub for a drink on a regular basis - I would suggest most of you are happy to buy cans or bottles in supermarkets and quaff it in front of Netflix! Although some of you eat in pubs, I guess not often. Same old same old - use it or lose it!!

If its that close to you then Ray, you would probably know a man who could possibly throw some light on the darkness!!

I think I might get a black mark from the Mods......!!!!!!

Vaughan - it has only ever been open one a year. I don't think it is a deliberate policy to exclude people - after all there is only grazing marshes to see and oh, Blackfleet Broad. And FR, it boat being cut in half was done ,allegedly, at Somerton, which is immediately adjacent to the Horsey Road - hardly remote at all. Having said that there are people who "guard" the access to some of the local marshes which they use for reed with a degree of hostility to outsiders - odd lot in that neck of the woods - allegedly! Access to Heigham Holmes though is not especially easy as it across the floating bridge at Martham Ferry, which is now electrically operated - at least they restored that! I don't think the general public have access to the opening/closing mechanism for perhaps obvious reasons - leaving the "bridge" closed effectively closes the navigation and I know you wouldn't want that Incidentally it was been suggested it was home to an SOE airfield during the war - difficult to track down any real evidence about that. You can make your own mind up about that one!