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Very good letter Vaughan 👍

Absolutely fantastic news.👍😁👍 Well done you lot and thanks to Socrates for expanding on the news that Griff posted.👍 I suppose an email of thanks to my local MP would not go amiss. Just let us know when you think the next time to contact our MP s is appropriate.

I must say my answer to that would have been " go buy a Yaris then" 🫣 Adaptive is probably the one gadget I would pay extra for on a new car. It's the one thing that Mrs FF's gadget laden Jeep has that I wish I had on my same age Jaguar. You can keep all the other bongs and bleeps but the adaptive is just brilliant. 👍

It does seem to me that BRAG are operating under the radar at the moment and IMHO that is the best and only way to operate at the moment. If anyone of you are reading this forum I can only wish you every success 👍 To also seem to have lit a fire under the totally useless NBSA' s collective backsides. Well done and keep those fires stoked 😁

I know Mr W's reply above was tongue in cheek 🤣 and I don't know all the facts but I sincerely hope Fred is correct and a spanner is thrown into the works sooner rather than later 👍

I think what Mr W says here is the crux of the matter. The introduction a few years ago of the contribution boxes for water refills must have generated quite an amount of cash for The BA over the years. I always dropped a couple of quid in as I thought it would help with the upkeep of the moorings. Now I feel I am being ripped off by having to pay twice for moorings I can't see me dropping that couple of quid in the box.

Such a shame as the little park when it was first done was really nice. I had noticed the deterioration over the last few years but had hoped it would get a bit of a re vamp and return to former glories. It was such a nice place for both locals and visitors to spend a little while on a nice day.

Not unheard of BTW as I have been banned from Norwich Yacht Station by an, at the time poster boy for BA , who surprisingly now does not work for them anymore. Take from that what you will 😁

They don't and didn't. Well in my limited experience anyway. Just a mere 30 years. I can only think someone must have upset someone.

Must have upset someone MM.😲 I have never been charged for waiting for the tide.

Also good to see you have decent tyres on ZB 👍 It's one thing I will not compromise on. For Jaguar it's Pirelli or nothing. Tried Yokohama on my first Jaguar and they almost killed me.😲

WOTW was one of the greatest concerts I have ever seen. Missed the first incarnation but saw it at the O2 in the 2010's Ricky Wilson played The Artillery Man and Richard Burton appeared as a hologram. There were some thin performances namely Jason Donovan but overall the experience was awesome. We did not get the best seats around a third along on the right of the stage but when a war machine marched past us breathing fire that actually warmed up I distinctly remember saying " well you don't see that everyday" Like you Griff it was the soundtrack of my youth. Enjoy 😁

The forum has gone a bit strange 😥 So please pardon the duplicate post.😥😥 Apparently the good folks of Potter Heigham are to vote on what to do with that blooming monstrosity. Son folks are complaining about the increase in traffic due to the monstrosity being closed 😁🍺😣🤣🤮 The best scenario is demolition. But failing that please please please make it pedestrian only.

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https://www.forces.net/services/navy/sale-ex-royal-navy-high-speed-patrol-boat-pre-loved-machine-guns-not-included-offers Would look good in The Wet Shed

Having a better look at the good photo this morning it seems that my speculation about stability was incorrect.😞 The dock looks dry and the safety netting was rigged. There are still some items on the dock floor and the gangway,or in this case more correctly, Brow is laying on the Dock floor. I think you can see the port side props laying along the dock wall. There is talk if high winds but unless there was some miscalculation it seems unlikely to me to be a factor. But then I have been known to be wrong before 😥

I do worry about my M8 Griff's obsession with making it stop. It has to go before it can stop There is no replacement for displacement 🤪

Sorry M8 I am with Griff here. Not a Scooby and not interested 😥 Now if you had posted something that would make it go faster......😁

Blooming autocorrect From earlier The bell from HMS Hood

I had missed that Griff We as ships officers do spend a lot of time focusing on ensuring stability on entering dry dock. It is much more simple leaving dry dock as you ensure the tankage is the same as on arrival. All entered in the OLB ( Official Log Book) or as near to what you see in fiction as The Ships Log. It is quite possible as you say that the tankage of the ship was different to her arrival and she became unstable on departure. Even on a small ship such as this the difference could be some thousands of tonnes.

Maybe 👍

Looking at your picture Mikey it does look like inadequate intact stability let alone reserve stability. Pure speculation of course.😥 From other sources, The vessel belonged to Paul Allen a co founder of Microsoft and was used as a deep sea research vessel and was instrumental in locating many deeply sunk historical ships , I think the most famous of all for us Brits was recovering the bell from HMS Good. She had been laid up after the Pandemic but had now been sold to new owners maybe hence the drydocking.

Complete speculation. It seems like the ship missed it's keel blocks. On small ships like this the ship ( 74m I believe) the keel has to land on the keel blocks and then is propped up from the side of the dock as the water is pumped out. Yes just the same as in a canal lock. When entering the dock control over the ship is given over to the dock workers and basically bow and stern lines are passed from either bow and quarters (stern) . The ship is then winched into position and located on the blocks by laser measurements and then the dock is pumped out. Very important for the ships officers is that the trim is correct as determined by the dry dock ( usually a small trim by the stern. If this trim is incorrect then the ship will take the aft blocks and as the ship becomes progressively more unstable could potentially slip off the blocks and something like the article happens. Or the dry dock got it's measurements wrong and it missed the keel blocks. In all fairness I have never seen or heard of this happening . Larger ships land on a series of keel blocks and require no propping up from the side. It still has to be right though. The stability of any vessel on taking the bottom is complicated and is more so in a controlled bottoming out such as a dry docking

Impressive 👍