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And as for lifejackets. Well, they are only for the 'Titanic moment' when the boat's sinking, aren't they ?
Sadly not, as recent events may have proved.
Are hirers instructed on their proper use ?
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4 minutes ago, annv said:
Perhaps they can deregulate boat refuse to private so removing the cost for councils to provide rubbish collection at moorings, it was the eu that put a charge on boat rubbish that caused the councils to stop collecting from moorings with the house hold collection service as they collected from houses, it had worked well for years until the eu put there oar in. John
Interesting claim. Can you provide a source for it ?
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6 hours ago, tonplus said:
I wouldn't take to much stock in anything the guardian reports. I don't think there will be any major changes.
I guess you'd prefer the Mail or the Express !
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I have double moored without asking on more than one occasion. Each time it has been for long enough to lower my mast to pass through a bridge - usually Potter Heigham - and the offended craft has been moored on the YACHT MASTING MOORING !
I shall continue to do so when necessary.
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So if I come back from a trip to France, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands and a number of other countries I have to 'quarantine' for 14 days.
However should someone from the 'locked down' parts of the UK are seemingly free to visit anywhere in the UK , potentially infecting people in the areas where they are staying ! Wht the difference ?
Worrying for those of us in holiday resort areas of the country . Here in Norfolk we have one of the lowest incidences of Co19 in the country. If we see a spike we will know why .It's them coming OUT that concerns me , not Visiting them. Why would you ?
Whilst they are supposedly locked down, many are crtainly ignoring the restrictions and taking holidays !England's coronavirus hotspots
Blackburn with Darwen, Oldham, Leicester, Bradford, Calderdale, Pendle, Trafford, Manchester, Rochdale, Tameside, Salford, Kirklees, Stockport, Burnley, Bolton, Bury, Hyndburn, Preston, Rossendale, Wigan, Luton, Swindon, Northampton, Peterborough, Sandwell, Bedford, Wakefield, Oadby and Wigston, Eden.
Source: Public Health England-
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1 minute ago, MauriceMynah said:
It's staggering that ANY of my posts get through really :-)
It's not what you post.....
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This should be a Sticky at the top somewhere.
Am I honestly expected to remember in detail these 12 points in detail - that I signed up to when joining over ten years ago ?
I would have found it helpful to have been able to refer to this list following some recent unpleasant experiences, where decisions appeared to be somewhat arbitary.
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Where are these 'Terms of Service ' to be found? Despite searching the Forum I am as yet unable to find them.
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Can't get any masks ? Here's how to do it - but best you wash 'em first
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An old friend used to work at Brooms in the years when they were big in the hire business. He once told me that they kept one man fully employed in repairing, replacing and building replacement windscreens when they had been smashed by going through bridges without folding them down.
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BBC Look East have just been interviewing people shopping . Universally 'a good idea, Includong those who weren't wearing a mask ! Knob of the day was the bloke wearing a mask with his nose uncovered.
Still, it was in Ipswich .....One thing of concern is that I've already noticed that people currently wearing masks appear less botheredabout social distancing, ignoring even the 1 metre advice if using a mask ! I bet this will get wose.
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Isn't it interesting how the decent folk who live aboard, both part time and full time appear to feel that they are the subject of this thread. They are not.
Well, as the OP I can honestly say that they were nowhere near my thoughts when I posted. I would have thught that my reference to Pelican as an example would have made that apparent. I was going to use the term 'water gypsies', but in this PC world I wasn't sure how that would go down !
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What's the biggest boat Sold on Amazon ?
I want next day delivery. Shouldn't be a problem because a nice lady has just renewed my Amazon Prime for me, even though I didn't know I had it
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11 minutes ago, Cheesey69 said:
Had same talk to a boatyard owner here in the Medway.
there is just no money in it.
Sailing vessels have money in fittings but the plastic hull needs to go through a shredder and, I think there is a scheme for a certain kind of plastic but I bet it’s cheaper to make new.
I guess even less money for cruisers because by then every thing has gone thats worth it.
At least wooden boats had a natural life spanWhere there's a will.... https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/perhaps-were-getting-closer-to-fiberglass-recycling
"Their Seattle-area-based company, which has been recycling fiberglass since 2008, has invented a way to transform the old blades into products like manhole covers, building panels and pallets."
But of cours there is probably
a costan impact on profit !
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They can now have housing benefit for their Tolls .
"The boat licence fee if living aboard is rent. Specifically, the boat licence fee is a payment in respect of a licence or permission to occupy a dwelling and thus it qualifies under Regulation 12(1)(b) of the Housing Benefit Regulations."
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2 hours ago, SteveO said:
Even the Archers has gone "pants" recently. Endless right-on "political" storylines, token ethnic minorities and lately, under the smokescreen of Cov-19 it seems to have lapsed into a series of boring monologues. This is what happens when you have a captive audience. I've given up on it - better things to do with my time. Still paying though, which I resent.
There is no charge for radio . You don't need a TV licence to listen to or download radio programmes from BBC Sounds or BBC iPlayer Radio.
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Of course theissue isn't with all liveaboards. I'm sure most recognise the type I am refering to, of which 'Pelican', frequently commented on here is/was a classic example .
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Most of any 'thumbs down' for me I suspect would come from Mods
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7 hours ago, FarmerTerryuk said:
Hi,
I have had holidays on the broads periodically over many years and we are planning one for early September.
We have a boat hired from Silverline in Brundall, and I am trying to plot a weeks trip, working round the tide tables, but that week (Sept 5th-12th) I am struggling.
Now, I know this is an impossible question to answer definitively, but I’m just looking for a bit of guidance.
The tide runs very fast at Reedham, for instance, and it would be silly to battle against it at it’s fastest so –
1. In relation to high / low /slack tides, when do the tides run at their fastest? And
2. by Brundall, where it’s weaker, is it sensible to plan to travel against the tide?
Thanks for any hints, tips, or advice.
This is best answered by reference to 'The rule of twelfths '.
During the first hour, the water level rises by 1/12th of the total tidal range. In the second hour, it rises by an additional 2/12ths of the total. During the third and fourth hour, it rises by 3/12ths. Then the increase begins to slow down. In the fifth hour, the water only rises by 2/12ths, and in the sixth hour it rises by 1/12th. The pattern is 1,2,3,3,2,1.
So the middle period of the (approx) six hour tide cycle is when the run of tide is at its strongest. Tru for any tidal affected area.
The tidal range at Brundall is anything from very little to a metre or so. Punching the tide there shouldn't make any appreciable difference I should think.
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35 minutes ago, vanessan said:
Can’t speak for ‘most women’ but for me it’s boats!
On the rare occasion I watch anything on BBC, I really enjoy it because there are no b****y adverts. Having said that, BBC is spending more and more time these days advertising itself both on tv and radio.
We've had Sky for a good number of years now. Apart from the vast choice of channels, the ability to record (which we do for almost everything we watch) means that we almost never have to lokk at b****y adverts, being able to fast foward through them
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The problem of unsightly boats moored on the Broads by liveabords is one that has been an issue for a number of years, and gets no better. There is one in the dyke at Upton that has allegedly been there since the winter, and has spead 'stuff' across the bank!
It seems that the problem is not limited to our part of the world.
The council in Elmbridge have escalated their problem to the top.
https://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/moorings-unauthorised/letter-to-environment-agency/
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16 minutes ago, rightsaidfred said:
OK as one who will now loose the privilege of a free license but will not be to badly affected financially I have taken time to digest the various views expressed here, my view on this may well appear controversial but here it is anyway.
If the free license was still payed for out of the public purse I would have no issue with it being means tested although I am not sure pension credit is necessarily the right benchmark.
As it is now coming out of the BBC coffers I think it is time for the compulsory license to be done away with and for the BBC to finance themselves along the lines of ITV etc.
Sadly the BBC is no longer the institution it once was, its sports coverage is no longer of much consequence, the so called comedy is largely niche, some dramas are good some unintelligible, the documentaries and news programmes all carry a PC bias added to which the large number of repeats, personally I doubt the BBC makes up 5% of our viewing time, if you don`t want to pay for subscription TV there are still a large number of free to air channels some of the them showing the same repeats as the BBC, the only thing the BBC does well at the moment are state occasions and while they are important I wonder how much of that is because they have a virtual monopoly on them.
Fred
Unfortunately you still need a TV licence if you watch or record 'live' TV or use BBC iPlayer.(That's not just BBC !)
If you don't do any of these, you don't need a licence. So you don't need a licence to read anything on the BBC website, or if you watch clips on the BBC Sport app or website (though if it's a live stream, you will need one).
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Apparently there's approximately a one in four chance of finding a decent one(as much as that ? ), only to find that, a few weeks later, the manager has moved and the pub has dived.
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Beccles Bound..
in Broads Photos
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Exactly how thety should be used on a cruiser. As has been mentioned, on a yacht, somewhat different, they need to be worn all the time except when moored.