marshman

Ian - you can easily do what is required i.e make up and print off your own exemptions, armbands or otherwise,so I do not understand why you should not. Why should anyone else bother to do it and if they do, so what? There will be very very few who want to go down that line just to cheat the system, so please do what you want to do and not expect the Dr's or anyone else to do it for you.

Albion shares her wet shed with Maud, some would say a proper clinker built wherry! She was dragged out of Ranworth Broad, not Malthouse, and restored over a long period by Vincent Pargeter, the well known Norfolk/Suffolk millwright who sadly died a few years ago. She is now run by his wife as a small charitable Trust - see here https://wherrymaudtrust.org/ Albion's own site is here - https://www.wherryalbion.com/ Sad to know but public sailings have been put on hold for this year for obvious reasons but Albion, and Maud too, will be out and about for Crew Training until the middle of September - cannot let the old gits lose their quanting skills!!! ( Sorry Ian - topic drift again!!!!!!! )

Liked the tale - sadly Albion is in fact Maud, the other black sailed trader remaining!! Hope you don't mind me pointing that out!!!!

Oh I see - scared then!!!!!

So why are they over PW? Can you no longer see them????

Did anyone, including Mr Horrocks really expect a different outcome? Its all part of the longer term aim to get change of use i suspect!!!

I don't think so PW !!!! Not the same - I walked the beach between E Runton and Cromer yesterday and although there were quite a few people either end - in between? Very few!! Stop alarming people like Ian!!! The comparison with Spain is inappropriate!!!

Ian - do you want every action you take in life to be approved by Government? I certainly don't so the least edicts they issue the happier I shall be! It was easy for them to issue instructions for lockdown - but much more difficult to issue precise instructions for everyone asking for them now on how to open things up. I think you should bear in mind their instructions as generally issued, carry out your own risk assessment and proceed as you feel necessary and appropriately. Incidentally I was in Cromer today and whilst it was busy, I thought how well people were coping! Bit like speeding on the Broads - all a matter of opinion and perception!!!

Sorry OBB - it wasn't you!!!! NN's right - the market is pretty lively and would be more so if more boats about!

You try and buy a decent secondhand motor home at the moment - the secondhand hand boat market similarly is alive and well despite OBB's fears. NYA have hardly any decent stock left and stuff is flying off the shelf as the post indicates NBS in Wroxham have just sold a well worn Diamond 35, an old Benmore which has been for sale for many a long year - oK BB might have needed the cash to tide them over but it was pretty fully priced!!

Sprucing up did not seem to include the apparent "hand" signwriting of the names!!! Always looked like a bit of an afterthought - indeed the whole running of the company seemed a bit like that! Strange really as if I recall correctly, they sold a business in the Lakes to start BBC.

Oh just remembered - the Lord Nelson, Horsey!!!!

Must admit, the two times I have been to Rocky Bottoms, I have been less than impressed!! On the other hand, it could be me....!!!! I would however endorse Bure River Cottage - but don't ask for a steak!!!!

Surely the very nature of the name Broads Beat, suggests that their job is exactly that!!!! Patrolling the Broads - or had I missed something?????

The only carpets justifiable on a boat are Floatex carpets - which can be washed and incredibly hard wearing Mr Buttifant has two sets each for his yachts - one on one off and so replaced fresh weekly. But its £30 a sq metre!!!

Personally I don't think you will ever wear the wellies at all!!! If you have to wear them in the boat, then forget comfort and try and find where its coming in!! I used to use a pair when sailing so if you got caught out in a shower you could stick your wet weather trousers over the top but your not doing that! All you will need is the windscreen wiper switch! Its May so unlikely to be that cold and most moorings are dryish even if its wet weather!! Try an old pair of trainers or even sandals that will dry!!! Or if you must wear wellies try a £10 gardening pair from everywhere!

JM is of course quite right! They would soon have shifted over a bit if they had seen a boat or two coming the other way!

'Fraid I cannot answer that on their behalf - although I suspect if one doesn't want to do it, the others behind may well take a similar view.

I am sure all those boats wanting to could easily have got through and did not need to wait for the Navy to clear through!

Its not one way is it? 54' width enough for a boat each way and a couple of cyclists as well! They come round the bend and see people fighting for a place on the bank and think they would like to join them - shame there was not a privateer with enough gumption to just go on through, and like sheep they would then just follow and avoided the need for a silly picture!

Its been in the fleet a long long time and might be looking a bit tired which may be why its not gone sooner?

If you have any size hole, it won't be enough!!! But what it might do is cope with the normal flow into a bilge, such as a dripping gland ( yep we all have those - its an age thing!!! ) and also if you have a well at the back, that almost certainly will cope with that draining into the bilge!!! To be honest I would expect even a modest bilge pump to be rated at more than that but having checked Brian Ward, thats about par for the course. On balance I might opt for a bigger one - dont forget its your pride and joy! Shame to spoil it for a happorth of tar or whatever the expression is!

Hunters day boats are in fact out and in the dyke! But its is the skippered sails I guess that are not available - not the boats! If you want a sail in one and wander into the office with your card and ask Vicki nicely, who knows! I suspect its all about the cleaning regime on its return, but the dyke looks to be full of its fleet and if the dinghies are not available its probably that as they are pretty busy, they have not got around to establishing and organising a workable routine!!!

Andy - whilst I have many times in the past admired your contribution to the Forum and indeed the help you have given people, you do depress me a bit these days! You seem to look for the very worst in almost every situation and I cannot help feel that the this whole pandemic issue has got to you, perhaps more than others and unquestionably with some justification. This pandemic was none of our doing but even you must see we have to look forward and not try and see negatives constantly? I don't actually believe we won't pull through this, as we have to, - some like yourselves will no doubt have more difficulty than others but surely there must be a plus side and some reasons for being optimistic? You are after all still a yard proprietor and surely almost everything Maurice has said is right? I really find it hard to believe that you have not come across kids or adults, like this - or more to the point, worse? I suspect if this video had not emerged, and the boat returned in the normal course of events, no one would have been any the wiser - you listed all the faults and dangers, but in fact the net result was nothing happened that had an adverse impact on the boat as far as I am aware? Or am I wrong?

Of course you can drag - but only in exceptional circumstances! My only real advice is go up the the windward side of the Broad to get some shelter if necessary, but don't be tempted to leave the aft mudweight down overnight ( if you have one and you are using it to keep the boat steady whilst fishing) - just move it to the front and then you will have two down - unlikely to shift with two down I promise you!!!