FlyingFortress

Shame really as I quite liked The Maltsers pub RIP The Maltsers

This makes a mockery of any and all groups that are supposedly representing boaters on our Broads.😫

Correct 👍

And with the size of day/picnic boats these days. Where is the line drawn?

That's a point. Is it still going to be free for a dinghy?

Thanks for the update expilot.👍

Can't help you locate anything. But I am prepared to join the long line of folks willing to help you carry the stuff 😁

Far right of the pic. Just the stern. Should have gone to Specsavers 🫣

Can't see your boat in that pic MT 😳

Don't remember them Vaughan only seen the pictures like above. But you do have a point 👍

But only if you take the blooming bridge with it 😜

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Squat is a function of the square of the speed so at 4 MPH , squat will be minimal. The only way your steering will be effected is by shallow water effect which has nothing to do with speed hence not squat. Squat, a very misunderstood and while quite real, effect. Squat, perversely sucks down your vessel to a deeper draft when you navigate in shallow water. Shallow water effect interferes with the flow of water around the rudder and happens regardless of speed. I can explain more but it is rather complicated 😳 Bank effect caused by narrow rivers is something quite different although the hydrodynamic causes are very similar.

Good point Fred. Just couldn't help adding my opinion to Griff's. I can't see anything being done about that blooming bridge except for shutting it off permanently to road traffic. 😣

Thanks MT 👍 As you say there was plenty of clearance going back through. I have another pic I took coming the other way which shows us almost totally filling the arch and with less than an inch at the top corners of the housing. A boat like mine and yours has the corners shaved off in the design to allow passage through arched bridges just like the picture above. I have no doubt your date of 2006 is correct so it could have only been 4 or 5 years previous that we were through there on our Calypso which was much higher and had square corners. 😳 In fact I think we bought our Calypso in 2000

Yes that was the last time 😫 And it's been the screen saver on my PC for many a year the second one. In answer to your question. I don't know but would like to 🍺 Trouble is now just look at how many less visitor moorings are available at The Pleasure Boat compared to then. Sorry I said Ferry Boat not Pleasure Boat last night 😳

your going to build a dam either side put a lock type gate in it, bring the boats in, pump enough water out to get them through then then refill and away you go, sure the BA would consider that. No need. Just demolish the old useless bridge 🤞 Can't find a tinhat emoji

I for one would be glad to see the back of that bridge. It must be 15 years or more ago my boat which BTW was designed to pass under PH Bridge last went under. Maybe just Maybe pubs like The Ferry Boat at Hickling would have a better chance of .😳surviving. Edit to add at 6'6" air draft and probably a good bit less than that at a flat bridge we had no issues at the newer by pass bridge.

Yes Vaughan I was deliberately using a JM term as he was one who was involved in my failed attempt to set up our Toll Payers group. I still believe that there is a requirement for such a group.

Point taken Fred. Maybe it was just the cynic in me revealing itself.

I also fully agree with this.

Vaughan Please. I am not trying to stifle debate. I am trying to encourage, cajole, provoke some form of action. IMHO the best form of action is for us Stakeholders ( see I can use current buzzwords) to get together and have some sort of representation within the corridors of power at Yare House. Some representation that reflects the true feelings on The Rhond and not the Poodles that are supposedly representing us now and have been for years. Not fit for purpose. By all means please write to The BA and express your concerns I am just afraid that it will be filed away with all the other like-minded correspondence.

I think that's what I said earlier.

So there is no appetite to actually do anything except moan about The BA. This is why the organisation I set up failed. Lots of moaning but no action. Over

I suppose one good thing could come of the decision to charge for moorings is that if you wanted to spend a week at say Ranworth then £70 a week to park your own luxury accommodation on the Staithe has to be cheaper than hiring a cottage.👍😁😂