MauriceMynah

Fair enough! This seem to be another bad mark for DRL/Anglia Boats. It's sad but at least you have your dosh back, even if rather delayed. What are you going to do now?

Tell them that THEY got the name wrong and you want compensation for that too.

It's back now

Well, rather as the title ask..What's happened to the NBF? Does anybody know? It seems to have been own for a couple of days.

Hiya Tim, nice to see you here. Pull up a picture of Queen Victoria and sit down.

But...but...but...I'm in love!

Now, I might be wrong here as I'm yet to follow ny of the links, but I can see two reasons why spammers of this ilk might do it. 1. The link is to a virus,, or 2. The link is to a website which contains adverts and the spammer gets paid if his website gets sufficient hits. If it's "2" then the spammer just needs taking on one side and given a slap. However, If it's "1" then the spammer needs taking on one side and given a slap, then horse whipped and after that he should be beaten to within an inch of his life. then hanged drawn and quartered, then his naughty bits fed to pike and his bottom smacked and then... well I guess you kinda get the picture.

Yes, I received a quote. Not too bad but I'm putting feelers out to see who else and how much. Not going to give figures until I can offer comparisons.

Strow, can you please e-mail or PM me with details of those small hatches, they look just the job but I'm trying not to de-rail this thread.

Those little round dinghy hatch things... Does anybody know if there,s a cabin floor version, one that could be stood on? They would be ideal for reaching into the bilgies to clear weed filters.

Well, I've made an enquiry for a full external clean once a year, I'll be interested in their quote. My guess is that it'll be too rich for my blood, but I stand to be pleasantly surprised!

I write this, disregarding all that I have heard, purely based on your original post. It looks to me like they have offered you the best boat they can, but have not thought through your requirements. Rather than e-mail them, I'd phone them to find out what options are available, then confirm the conversation in writing. Fine time looks very nice and looking at the layout, I wondered if "Free time" might be better suited for you. Phone 'em up! Try to sort it that way. They might have thought the up-grade was doing you a favour.

Too many "unknowns" here! What did the hirer tell the boatyard? We Don't know! Perhaps they told the boatyard that it was your fault, that the damage to your boat was there before they had the bump with you and that, in their opinion, you were going to "Try it on" to get a bit of damage to your boat sorted without paying. In a litigation mad society, they might have said lots of things to shift any blame from themselves.

The guy filming was doing the best thing for the trawler owner, useful for the insurance claim.

Please don't let this thread descend into an "Owners v Hirers" bitching contest. There are morons in both camps. It stands to reason that a novice is more likely to have a bump than an experienced boater, though we all make mistakes. It stands to reason that a novice is more likely to be on a hire craft. Not all novices have bumps and not all hirecraft skippers are novices. From the above one can reasonably deduce that statistically if your boat is hit, it will be by a novice in a hire craft. I don't want to sound harsh but LIVE WITH IT, or move your boat to the Thames where novices are taken out and hanged if they so much as look at a private boat.

I think I got my sim card in either 92 or 93. Not doing badly either way ! My first phone was a nokia 101 back then with a battery life of nearly 20 hours in standby

I apologise Paul, I really should have included in my post that the fact you are having to resort to legal action is indicative of totally unacceptable behaviour from whichever boatyard is concerned.

I don't think that this coment is going to be wildly popular, but here goes. The Norfolk broads, generally speaking, is a holiday area where most people learn how to handle a boat. It follows therefore that there will always be a great number of novices about. Novices get it wrong quite often. They hit boats, sometimes quite hard. That's the way it is! You don't want your boat to be hit? Well take it somewhere where the novices are few and far between. Try the Caladonian canal where novices lose a day of their holiday for training. If you keep a boat on the broads be aware it WILL be hit, sometimes quite hard. Now, as far as the people who "Hit and run" this is a sad sign of the times! They'd do the same if they were in a car! One final observation though. I was in the cabin of a boat that my father was taking upstream under Ludham Bridge. I'm not sure what happened, but dad clipped another boat. The chap onboard the boat first hurled abuse at my (83 year old) father, then demanded that we moored up to have a "chat". He stormed up as we were coming in to moor. That's when I came up onboard to step off with a rope. Suddenly he lost interest, and went back to his boat. By the time I'd tied up ours and walked towards his, he had untied and gone! He was more than happy to take on a Private Godfrey lookalike, less so anybody any younger.

Any info about coverage in Hickling??

I have several jobs I want to do, but whenever I get on my boat, I tend to just eat, drink, cruise and chill. Is there a cure for this?

Hylander, I had to say this to a member of NBF a while back, and I hope you take my point in the spirit it is given. You have views, and those views are important. Sometimes they will not be agreed with, and sometimes you will receive replies you will not like, but they are still your views and they are still important. If you stop posting, your views will not be heard, and so cannot possibly do any good. For all you know, this thread may lead to someone instructing their child to wear a lifejacket when playing on the roof. You will never know! You may have saved a life. you will never know! The price you pay for your views will always be the risk of ridicule, only the risk mind you, rarely will it be a price you actually pay. The possible rewards you can reap are inestimable. Sadly you may never find out if you have been paid. In my opinion, nothing has been said that has born the intention of any ridicule whatsoever (but that is just my view). Keep posting and don't disappear in a fit of peek. That does nobody any good.

Of course you are right Paladine, but telling somebody to stop worrying, is one of those automatic phrases, like seeing someone immediately after they've had an accident people say "Are you alright". I find my life has become so much easier to live now that I have accepted that I'm both arrogant and patronising. Being condescending comes naturally to me. Now, you do know what I mean by "Condescending" don't you.

Damned if you don't, damned if you do! Can't win! If I had been moored next to that boat I would have been far too angry about the parents, to be worrying about their kids. Of course I'd have reacted if one of the kids had fallen in, but by all that's holy, I'd be arrested for what I'd have then said to the parents afterwards.

I'm just racking my brain to work out who you could possibly mean there Strow

The water from your shower tray goes up a pipe and reaches the first of the "Diverter valves" What is this valve exactly? what options does it have? and have you seen one? I'm just wondering if you've done something I have done quite often. Work out what you need and then assume it exists. Also, the input to the black water tank should never be the output from that tank. You have the shower water going into the tank in the same pipe as the pumpout sucks it out. I'm reminded of first lyrics of "Let's face the music and dance" "THERE MAY BE TROUBLE AHEAD"