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  1. marshman

    Flooding

    Add to water levels rising, and the fact the south east is slowly sinking, not much hope for the low lying spots is there? Still, wont worry me - will be long gone!!!!!
  2. marshman

    Flooding

    Dredging is never just the answer - trouble is you need to be able to release water from the whole of upstream areas at a slower pace. Dredging merely allows the incoming tide to come in further, thereby often restricting the outflow when required. Thats exactly whats happened in the Somerset Levels around the River Parrott I believe. The last thing you want is more water arriving in Yarmouth at the wrong time - they have only this year finished raising the harbour walls to prevent overspill. Some people around the rivers emptying into the Wensum in Norwich have been calling for the sluices at New Mills to be opened more - thats ok if the water has anywhere to go,not if its already high tide the other side. Its a delicate balance to be maintained I guess.
  3. I see from the EDP that following complaints, they will be reviewing the licence for the pub. Perhaps if the Authorities cannot stop him one way ,they will try another - although to be fair that has nothing directly to do with the BA!!!!!! https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23892439.beauchamp-arms-norfolk-broads-facing-licensing-review/
  4. French Marine in Brundall stock a lot of impellers, including Johnson ones, so if you are in the area pop in - always found them very helpful and for anyone's info,stock Perkins spares.
  5. Possibly - although from what I have read, there have been issues for sometime which have been outstanding. Sadly we have to have rules, planning or otherwise, which we have to abide by and perhaps a much earlier consultation with those at the Planning Authority, the Parish Council, and the Highways Authority, all of whom objected to the proposal, would have clarified issues which brought about this action.
  6. Whilst I know its not very relevant, can anyone remember when the DEFRA grant was cut? I expect that Pally will tell me! Again not very relevant, but it does show how pernicious inflation is and how it can impact all manner of things. Please don't think that this is meant to justify any action whatsoever but leaving the EU will unquestionably have reduced some of the grants available although I think they still get some. As Chris Dobson pointed out in an earlier post on here somewhere, the BA like many other similar institutions finances never look good apart from tolls, purely because their income sources are pretty variable and vary greatly. Yes I know I no longer have a boat, and its easy for me to say!!!
  7. The last posts just show how difficult it is to predict inflation in advance - its a bit of a guessing game not helped by the B of E not having a clue! You might as well pluck almost any figure less than 10% out of the air. For what its worth my view is it will remain higher than expected for longer as it usually does here in the UK - or am I no longer either able to have a view or perhaps even post, now I no longer have a boat? What is good to see hidden away is that they are giving up more space at Yare House so less rent to pay - anecdotally I know someone at NCC who only has to be in the office one day a year!!! Down further south there is an increasing tendency around more people being expected to be at desks more often, than more recently.
  8. Griff - not sure where you are living but the early part of this year, inflation around here was, I think over 10%?
  9. The only similarity of the NWDCT boat to a traditional wherry is the colour scheme methinks.
  10. Doesn't take much working out does it?? After taking the obligatory 50% mark up off, and freight costs, would you trust your life to an 11yr old kid turning out out 50 a day in his old mans garden shed?
  11. Not convinced - Chinese heater without the correct markings showing it met European standards, would almost certainly get your claim thrown out IMHO. Cannot see that a BSS negates that - why do you think Trading Standards confiscate so many? Dom - I wish you well in your defence. I bet no hire yards fit them!!!!!!
  12. And for those of you who have insurance, you can almost certainly take for granted that any request for a claim with those installed, will be an easy get out. As I mentioned on another thread, they refused a small fire claim where I had not had a wiring check throughout the boat, in the last five years. And it was one of the main insurers as well!!
  13. People have always equated "space" with luxury!!! Many many years ago, well about 25, we were out in Turkey with Sunsail and 2 people turned up for a 51 footer!!! The bloke said them, "don't forget your ball of string" so you can find one another - some people just have no idea how big a 51' sailing boat is!!! It did have in mast reefing but I would like to bet they didn't even put the sails up and just motored around - cannot imaging how much sail it could have carried! Frightening!!!!
  14. What you all seem to forget is that most contributors here have a wealth of knowledge of the Broads, either because they are regular hirers or, more probably, own their own boats - indeed I cannot think of anywhere, over all my years, I have not been!! And as a result we know what they are missing!! However, persons hiring such boats have no idea, or probably the time. What many here overlook is the fact that many boats are often only out for a few days - long gone are the days when a week was the minimum hire period! In my early days, they would not even hire you a boat for a few days- I remember going to yards, sometimes with plenty of boats lying unused and asking for a short hire, and I was never successful! "No - we don't do that" was an oft repeated phrase!! Now its probably the norm! So these hirers will probably be very happy with where they can go, just because they just do no have time to cover the backwaters many of us crave for! ( Well, not me anymore - past all that now!)
  15. Unfortunately we had quite a lot of rain, by Norfolk standards - I recorded well over 2 " over a 24hr period and a lot of it has to go through Wroxham and/or Ludham Bridges!! Tides at sea look pretty high too so we could have a blocking situation for a few days.
  16. Officially NBD have never allowed private mooring in their basin as far as I am aware so if you do get permission to stay then that must be a bonus. Its nothing new!!
  17. If I recall, its a piece of steel piling and an actual piece of the old flood defences which is still doing its job and which was not replaced when they they put in the new flood defences. The other side of the river they put in a new soke dyke but that bit has always been there and as I said left to fulfill its proper function - its one of the few bits left and may have something to do with Neaves Mill. P.S. Pipeline is the discharge from Horning Sewerage Works around the back
  18. Beware the rule of unintended consequences - set yourself as a separate organisation looking for moorings and the landowners will be rubbing their hands with glee! Two competing sides and the price will go up even higher - also as M and P suggest, formal moorings will require planning consent I guess. Cost of constructing the moorings would have to be taken into account, and you may need someone to maintain them? How many ladders are replaced annually and mooring posts as well and then you have to have a maintenance/replacement fund as well I guess. The EA would also want their sticky fingers in the pie too. Set up a charitable trust and you will need people to run it - it won't run itself! Why do you think the Wherry Trust is run by volunteers - start paying anyone and it would become a veritable minefield. Who is going to collect the "subscription"? No easy task! I think I would just settle back and enjoy the Broads - I have been around them for some long time, and IMHO there is not a lot wrong. Others think differently of course but I still like them as they are - we all have niggles with those in control, like everyone likes to blame someone for everything, but I can think of a lot worse places to spend my days!!
  19. Without even thinking too hard, Vaughan, I can think of at least triple that!! Any one who uses the rivers will know of them. Having said that i guess many holidaymakers seem to prefer the more formal moorings these days. Which is good as the privateers can then grab the "wild ones"!!!
  20. Pike have been overfished on the Broads for about the last 10/15 years - whilst they are still about I guess they don't exactly jump on your bait. Years ago nobody even fished for pike until October ( yes I know its nearly that !) and on average in the river at Horning you might see one or two people fishing for pike over the winter period - now I have seen 20/25 people fishing for pike over about 1/ 1 1/2 miles. Not only that almost everyone fishing of a hire boat, seems to have at least one pike rod out all the time, irrespective of whether they are watching tv or not! Add to that the mishandling debate such as just dragging them out of the river onto a boat, and its not really a surprise!! As for perch, perhaps you should try using them red wiggly things which abound in my muck heap, but thats probably the old fashioned way! Equally I doubt How Hill is the best spot on the Broads - its certainly one of the busiest......!!
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