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marshman
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Not going to stop me sleeping!!!!!!!!
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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?
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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!!!!!!
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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!!
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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!!!!
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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!)
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Electrifying stuff!!!
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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.
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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!!
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Or even their clothes!!!!
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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
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Dilham??
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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!!
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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"!!!
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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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Griff - keep at it! You are doing a great job - wish I was fit enough these days to do such things!
I think you have better things to do than answer the questions of idiots like me - keep digging!!!
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Griff - I am no statistician and perhaps someone will come back and question the figure just out of interest! Incidentally did you use the RPI or the CPI?
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Think Mouldy is right - that went with the changes a few years ago at Whitlingham.
You can get a few hundred yards further upstream to Trowse Eye where the Wensum and Yare join, just by Carrow Yacht Club - plenty of room to turn there as that is where the bigger coasters used to turn.
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Riverman -actually there is plenty to do in Wroxham ,and with respect, you can have little imagination! There is a train station you can use to get into Norwich, one of Englands nicest cities,or go the other way and you can get to Cromer or Sheringham the latter which is especially attractive. Wroxham is also the terminus of the Bure Valley railway - get on that and you can get to Aylsham, another attractive little town. There is also a bike facility hire you can use to explore many quiet lanes and some stunning scenery - aha you will say but I expect this all to be free if I have hired a boat. Only in your dreams!
You could also get up of your boat and go into one of the largest model railway exhibitions in Europe - but then you would have to pay for it and whilst you seem to want people to invest and not get any return, is that realistic
Did you you into the Information Centre and ask what you could see? Walk up to Wroxham Barns, a craft centre not too far away? You could also take the opportunity to sail a Victorian pleasure wherry.
It seems that you want people to invest yet your expectation seems to be for free entertainment handed to you on a plate . I am afraid life isn't like that.
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Can I double like that last but one post??
One of the worst things about being old, is having to listen to other old people moaning about prices, cyclists on pavements, other peoples driving, and worst of all, their pensions. Regretfully the average person no longer contributing to a pension, has absolutely no idea what they cost to fund - I read somewhere the other day you would need a cash fund of over £360k to fund the equivalent of our current state pension if you were to retire today. I wonder how many people discussing their "entitlement" have made contributions of anywhere near that amount?
The other favourite moan is of course migration - but thats too political for this site today!!!!
On TV's I remember my first colour tv - you could not even buy it, you had to go on a waiting list just to rent one!!!!!
You are right we do have a lot to be thankful for, but you would not think so earwigging in any half decent garden centre restaurant at lunchtimes!!!!!!
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MM - The mudweighting charge at Salhouse was always a scam - it has always been free and if you paid up, you were diddled!!! At various stages in the past people have been approached, but it was usually enterprising lads, or perhaps old lads, from the village!
Don't forget too, there has always been a charge for mooring on the Island at Ranworth - if he bothered to row over and collect it!
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Well that shows how people people can make the apparent situation worse - as you say I too cannot speak for pubs but lots of those places have always charged. Even the pubs I have some sympathy for - people forget that moorings still have to be maintained, and thats not cheap by any means these days!
And why do people have to moored up at night,i.e. tied up? What's happened to mudweighting? There always used to be boats mudweighting on places like S Walsham, but whilst you see a few occasionally, they are becoming rarer - thats free, or always was!
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Vaughan - the Broads still look the same to me and I can remember them as long as you. Of course there are fewer hire boats and now more private boats, but NYA will tell you, and there is plenty of evidence to support this, that quality secondhand Broads boat still sell well! Now if you don't believe it thats up to you, and at the same time, I do not see masses of boats moving to other waterways, nor evidence the BA intend to shut down the rivers!
Of course there have been changes over nearly 75 years, or would you rather the Broads are taken back to the 50's? That would attract less people I promise you!!
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The broads hire industry has always been cyclical - and things are no different now.
Perhaps its nothing to do with the weather but more to do with foreign holidays seemingly buoyant and I expect fewer people are taking short breaks, in addition to their main holiday.
I expect it will survive very much as previously - are tolls on the Broads higher than elsewhere? I doubt it! Yards have always sold off boats at the end of the season, but don't expect bargains - that never happens and come the spring they will be back out again.
There is still a reasonable secondhand market for quality Broads boats and this is kept alive by the continuing lack of new boats being built. Few yards, or indeed firms have the skills and ability to do that.
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Would You Hire A Boat Too Wide For The Ant And Chet?
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Maid of the Mist up at Wayford still afloat????