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FlyingFortress
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5 hours ago, Smoggy said:
Just spotted this on Roger Gaspar's east coast weekly ntm roundup.
In theory the wood involved could find it's way up to breydon (although more likely will go out to sea).
Wonder what hit it 😳
The skeleton works hide sheet piling below the surface that can be lethal to ships as when they hit something they then roll towards it ripping through the hull like a knife through butter. Never experienced it myself but one of my company ships was very badly damaged there a good while back. Thank heavens all watertight doors below deck were closed 😥
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Now that's a Fox Red Labrador
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We still had Barley our big Ginger one when BA was commissioned
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30 minutes ago, BroadAmbition said:
Macie would have been about three
Griff
No you are quite correct.
We lost Treacle this year and she was 14 so she must have been about 2 in your pic .
She always was just a little un
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8 hours ago, BroadAmbition said:
Here you go FF. Dated 02nd Jan 2010
Griff
Nice pic 👍👍👍
Yes that's how I remember it with my little horror being the last one standing. Gosh she looks really skinny there. I suppose she was around 9 months. But then Maisie was not much older.
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1 hour ago, BroadAmbition said:
Never done a Christmas afloat but I live in hope ('Hope' must be a great place to live btw)
Have done a New Year afloat, did a night nav from the wetshed to Acle bridge in on New Years Eve, arrived in proper dark and during a snow storm, getting alongside and the mooring lines set was pure joy and glee - not
Then we got iced in at Malthouse Broad morning of Jan 02nd, fortunately a H.W's hire boat did the ice breaking thing so we followed their route out to the main river.
Came proper unstuck a few days later however attempting to get back to the wetshed as from Broads edge it was frozen solid. Took us hours and hours with maximum physical effort from the deck crew, me on the helm with concentration levels to the max to get her back into wetshed without inflicting damage to her hull. An experience I vowed to never repeat and avoid at all costs in the future and have largely succeeded
For quite a few years now though we have had mild winters on the rivers and not seen any real ice problems for what seems ages
I have a weekend planned afloat later in November and am confident the rivers will be ice free. There maybe an opportunity for a few days onboard late December too, we will see
Griff
Now that was a night and a half . We had spent NYE at Horning but we had a great night in The Maltsers with that big roaring fire going the next night.
It was the next morning that was most magical for us. Frozen Broad, snow covered green, bright sunlight and horrendous hangovers.
4 big dogs just chasing round and around the green 2 labs and 2 retrievers plus one little Yorkie as we stood around nursing coffees and waiting for someone to make a move. Thankfully it was the HW boat that did the ice breaking across Malthouse.
I must admit I was quite greatful for your ice breaking efforts up Stalham dyke and ours ended up in the wet shed as well as we could not make it back to our mooring.
Must be 15 or more years ago as our dogs were just pups then.
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Just attach it to your ensign post.
How much harm can it do???
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22 hours ago, marshman said:
They must have known about it - even I did!!!! But my guess is that 2025 will become either a cut or pipedream and if its anything like N Burlingham, they will defer it time and time again!
And then of course the Bicycle Party will get involved to delay it further - which they have promised to do!
But the traffic lights will be in place by the weekend 🤔
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Blimey
Hope you get better soon 👍
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Nice in Nantes but a bit of a b####r in Beighton
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On 17/10/2022 at 18:51, Regulo said:
The signs on the Yare at Reedham stating "No Mooring - Danger of being hit by coasters" were still there until very recently. May stiil be?
I do remember them but I can't recall them being there for a while now.
I think it was before 2000 when the last one went up to Cantley.
So now the residents of the villages leading up to Cantley have to put up with multiple large tankers driving through their villages evey day. As opposed to one river tanker a month.
Progress eh?
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If, like my father, you had two of your hire boats crushed and sunk while on pub moorings on the Yare in those days, you would not have thought it quite so funny. The nature of the journeys made by these ships meant that they always came either upstream or downstream with the tide under them. So if a 1000 ton collier approached a bend too fast, its stern would simply wipe off any boats which were moored on the bend. Not funny at all if you have seen it happen. Holidaymakers were actually terrified and rightly so.
At Thorpe, the bank outside the eastern bridge is made up with steel campshedding and reinforced concrete. It looks like a nice mooring these days but it was built to stop the coasters undermining the railway embankment when they ploughed head first into the bank by going far too fast on the bend.
When a coaster (one of many) hit Reedham swing bridge in the 60s, they closed the bridge again afterwards and the railway lines had been forced out of true by 4 inches.
They were very badly handled - whether or not they had a pilot - and were actually a dangerous menace to the navigation.
Maybe they should have used a boathook 😁
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3 minutes ago, FlyingFortress said:
Although it was before my time offshore there were tales of Offshore Supply Vessels being laid up somewhere on The Broads.
They had great fun using their PA system to ask passing holiday boats either " Anyone seen an Oil Rig?" or "Which way is the North Sea?"
Another tale that comes to mind.
To get where they were going they had to be at very light draft and therefore props and rudders were only partially submerged making them very difficult to manoeuvre.
One approached a bend with boats moored on the outside and they thought they were in danger of not making the bend and crushing the boats. They sounded their horn and used the PA to warn the occupants and one man in his PJ,'s came out and armed himself with a mop to fend off 😳
At least it wasn't a boathook 😁
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1 hour ago, Vaughan said:
Which in fact, we can see moored there in the film.
For quite a few years there was a business in Reedham that re-fitted offshore supply ships, as well as at May Gurneys on Griffin Lane, which is now the site of the BA's "temporary" tented encampment.
Although it was before my time offshore there were tales of Offshore Supply Vessels being laid up somewhere on The Broads.
They had great fun using their PA system to ask passing holiday boats either " Anyone seen an Oil Rig?" or "Which way is the North Sea?"
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I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong but the last coasters to run were the likes of The Blackheath that took fuel to Cantley.
The Blackheath got stuck in the ice at Reedham in the late 90's and caused a bit of embarrassment for the Captain.
Nothing to do with his navigational skills 🤔
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Is this guess the location?
If so first pic Fisherman's at Burgh Castle and second Kings Head/Armes Ludham.
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3 hours ago, Hylander said:
When I read this I immediately thought of my daughter-in-law, no children , not by choice, but two schnauzers, little ones and she refers to them as her fur babies....
A picture of innocence if every I saw one.
As Griff will attest he is a proper thief.
But he does look like butter wouldn't melt doesn't he.
He may be a hooligan but he is our hooligan 😁😳😁
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1 hour ago, kpnut said:
This might sound harsh, but swans succumbing to bird flu and dying a relatively quick death might be better than the inevitable slower death by starvation of quite a few over the next year or so anyway due to the noticeable population explosion of swans this season.
It’s not sustainable for a pair of swans to rear up to 8 cygnets to adulthood, each of which needs to find food and territory for itself. Increases in wild populations normally lead to population crashes at some point down the line.
Although I’m not knocking the hand feeding by us lot, (it is and always has been one of life’s simple pleasures and does a lot to connect people to the world outside), the extra food the babies get from humans allows more of them to survive to adulthood.Nature normally dictates that an animal produces more young than can survive in order to maintain, not increase the population.
Well done to the vets etc who are finding poorly ones and putting them out of their misery quickly too.
Very brave thing to say and I applaud both you and Vaughan for addressing the Elephant in the room.
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All I found at Gays when trying to snag my phone was half a dozen rusty tools to open water filler caps.😳
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Thanks Tim.
I will give that a try.👍
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Hi Tim.
Thanks for the Holiday Take 👍
Could I just ask what is that footpath app that you were using?
I thought I knew most of the footpaths around The Broads but that one at Neatishead is a new one on me.
I have always found Neatishead to be a bit difficult for walking the dog off the lead when I have moored there and I do like to visit Neatishead both the main Staithe and Gays.
Ta
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1 hour ago, CambridgeCabby said:
Nothing to do with copious warming Navy teas I’m sure
Otherwise known as Wobbly Coffee or Electric Tea 🍺
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If anyone fancies a dredge at Gays Staithe they will find my mobile phone I dropped in the water earlier this year 😐
But better than that there is the best part of £100 in the case 🫣
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Winter Cruising.
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Never met Candie but I do remember Dusty.