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I agree with most, if not all of the comments posted. But to be fair we have a very biassed audience from folk on the forum. there were a lot of opportunities lost.
10 minutes before the scheduled end of the programme' we had had enough.
Yes we recorded it, yes one day when we get withdrawal symptoms we will watch it again.
To be honest, I preferred the threads and posts leading up to the visit and the pre filming pics etc that we had on the forum, just a few months ago..
We expected more to be fair, in fact, we got more enjoyment when Drew Pritchard visited Martam boats,, in a programme last year.
Richard and Roz
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Just remember, it is easier to take material off than to put it back.
Buy a decent vernier and measure as you go.
What material are the tolerances being measured on?
Richard
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2 hours ago, ranworthbreeze said:
Hi Griff,
He is a little star and at 8 lb a good weight. Congratulations to all of the family.
All you have to do now is work out what you are going to be called Granddad, Grandpa, Gramps.
Regards
Alan
I think I was called Grumpy lol...
Congratulations, welcome to the world of Grandparent hood. Now you can do for your Grandkids what your parents did for yours lol... ice creme or chocolate half an hour before dinner.... course you can... lol.
Our eldest (via daughter) just turned 4, youngest 2 1/2 (son's) with their other on the way in March. Magic.
Fantastic if you are in a lucky position to be blessed in this way.
Best wishes to all.
Scalectric, train set, or model boat coming up for Christmas I guess.
Richard
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Fender bumping is often more of a problem. so we often lift all fenders that aren't required, and change the rope length to suit on the others.
Doing this at 2:00 am in your pyjamas and life jacket is not recommended lol.. especially in a force 6.
Best advice... listen to the weather forecast, and use a flag like the NBN one to indicate the current wind direction.
Richard
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3 hours ago, Gracie said:
I agree with every single comment, the NBN is not just a boating forum, as you say a community I value a lot of members on here as true friends or keyboard pals as I like to call them
I love that we can discuss all manner of things from health matters to posting a joke (ok, so the jokes aint so good, are they Charlie and Pops?)
It's also a support network for so many other things too. Our forum family has given me such fantastic support and a good old laugh at times, it's very much part of my life. My Aunt (the one who hates boats) say's I must be mad to go online and talk to a bunch of strangers, my response is always "They are not strangers simply friends I haven't met yet, don't knock it till you try it"
I thought I new everything about Broads and boating until I became part of this community and gained so much from much more experienced members, even some stuff my Dad didn't know and that's saying something
Have a great day everyone
Grace
I agree entiirely with what has been said, and also during my struggle with my health issues, I have been able to post about my journey, and the support that I have has been getting has been overwhelming. We are a family, we also have a gentle way of keeping things in hand. Great forum, great members, and I have to say a great moderator team, who respond well to member's comments. For example, we are a family group, partners and youngsters together, and I must admit, I am one of the first to pass comments to the mods re bad language. (Very rare on this forum), Who manage to keep things well, on track, and also the odd .scuffle between strong minded members with their own opinions. I like discussions when based on true facts lol...
We the members, are the forum guys, it is our forum.
Long may it continue.
Richard
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12 hours ago, psychicsurveyor said:
I think we need a smug g#t emoji for stinkies who help wind warriors
Can I have a set of 4 please !
Two sets of crew in the river, with boat rescue too.
A half decker in the reeds on the way to Hickling.
A yacht on it's way back to his home mooring at Barton Turf.
They all have one thing in common...
They were all reg and stick.
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14 hours ago, Wussername said:
Go on. Tell us. We won't let it go any further than the forum.
Go on. You know you want to.
It's never stopped us discussing pub names in the past has it?
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I think it is very difficult without going into detail of your personal or financial affairs to give advice.
For example, your age, if still in work, or able to draw down a pension, or are currently drawing a pension or planning to in the future.
Your assets, including shares, property etc
I am certainly not in a position to advise, but we recently changed our wills so our children and grand children could not be bypassed in the event of either my wife or I passing first and remarrying.
A situation that happened to me, my mother died first, then my dad who remarried, he sold his house, spent "his" collateral lived in her house, then he died, then recently she died, there was allegedly no will, or shall we say " No Will found" according to her brother who was first on the scence., so all the assets whent to my step mother's brother, who she was astranged from.
If this was France, legally, her brother would have got half, and the remainder (50%) split equally between my sister and I.
I am not money grabbing, I made provision and monitored it over the years. and people should not expect hand me downs. Good job too. However, I believe it is not the wishes of my step mother that her astranged Brother gets it all.
It is so essential to make sure wills are water tight under all conditions, but sadly people take poor advice or no advice at all.
You might want to get professional support to see what you are entitled to, as you might be classed as " Of no fixed abode" and I wonder if you should take advice before you declare you have a boat that you could live on.
Might be better to be actually "evicted" in writing, then the local would have to home you.
Hope it helps.
Richard
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Our thoughts are with you, as a sufferer myself, you often forget about the people, friends and family around you, that are suffering in a total different way.
For your sister the journey is over, she no longer feels pain or torment. For the family left behind, there is still a long painful journey ahead. Many forum members are still on this journey, but as the long journey continues the travel, does get easier. With fellow forum members supporting you it will be easier, or less traumatic.
I will raise a glass to you and all the family later.
Richard and Roz
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11 minutes ago, JawsOrca said:
We find June and September tolerable, the crews about seem to be more experienced, there's no screaming things, there's less day boats about, it's busy but there are normally gaps, the weather is normally a bit more stable..it's just a bit more grown up. so it's just nicer to be out the rivers really.
All very true, but the last comment mostly... "It's just a bit more grown up"
So true.
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13 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:
Yes. Ideal for decorating your 'man-cave' though.
You are so right... especially when looking at it over the top of a glass of dalwhinnie malt, served neat in a cut glass tumbler.
The above oberservation is currently taking place, and might need a second opinion.
Richard
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My son visited Gibraltar a few years back, and bought me a Red ensign.
However, I said to him, as I was not a resident of Gibralter, or a visitor from Gibralter, it would be wrong to fly this on a GB owned private cruiser in GB?
Was I right?
Richard
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Knowing the mess the highways agency get into on the roads around the West Midlands, I often wonder what qualifications the engineers have who design and build these roads and bypasses.
I have come to the conclusion that some don't even have a degree in Scalectric lol....
That reminds me... I had an Airfix slot car racing system, banked corners the lot ...still in boxes in the loft lol. Probably all the tyres are perished!
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On a similar topic, I once picked up an outboard engine cover from a boat show, to put over the manufacturer's engine cover to protect it over the winter.
Hmmmm...... BIG mistake... The Honda 15 used acrylic paint, and the cover maintained a wet layer between the cover and the paint, so water penetrated the paint and formed huge blisters, under the paint, which when the cover was removed took most of the paint with it.
The cover also provided a sealed but damp environment for rust to build up on the flywheel.
One of my biggest boating errors in 30+ years.
Richard
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18 minutes ago, TheQ said:
Which brings us to an interesting point there must be thousands of people in Norwich alone, using this stuff to clean their driveways . From there it flow into the road drains which are often not connected to the sewerage works but straight to rivers and streams...
Often road and pavement run off is direct to sea, via river, stream, brook, broad or lake.
Together with... brake dust, engine oil, antifreeze, brake fluid, diesel, grease, windscreen washer fluid, salt from gritting, rust, diesel particulates, tyre debris, when your tyres get down to 1.6 mm the rest has gone somewhere.... into the streams and rivers etc. This runoff also gets into the water table, aquifers so those extracting from bore holes and wells can reap the benefits from often untested and unfiltered and untreated water.
Any accidental commercial leakage from trucks etc ... into the gutter, stream then river. hmmm.. some nasty chemicals travel by road.
None of ths is new, it has been going on for decades...
So here is a question...or two.
If you change your engine oil, we take the old to the tip for recycling. I think we are 95-100% compliant on this one.
What about brake fluid, it's only a pint, or antifreeze, just 10 litres?
down the sewer drain, into the street via a grid, into the hedge, or dig a hole and bury it, gets into the water table then. or at the recycling centre? if they have facilities!
Where do you tip yours? hmmm
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8 minutes ago, ChrisB said:
But at the end of the day, in displacement boats it really boils down to waterline length. A 40ft waterline at 6mph will be next to nothing, a 17ft day boat at the same speed will push a wall of water like it were a waterbourne bulldozer.
As said before Square root of waterline length x 1.34 = knots
Hi Chris, I must write that down... but is length in feet?
Richard
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11 minutes ago, MauriceMynah said:
My boat's just been washed.
Were you a "wake" at the time lol ...?
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8 minutes ago, Bound2Please said:
Sorry to hear this Richard, here hoping it does set itself sooner rather than later. One word of advice dont kick it.... as it might then break your foot.
Charlie
lol...
I do tend to not retaliate on inanimate objects, as I will then have to spend time fixing those too lol. OR WORSE... having to buy replacements...
I learnt that from my Dad, he had "Blast and set fire to it moments" as tools and items were put into orbit, resulting in third party damage as well as damage to the tools etc.lol.
Richard
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Thanks for the warning... but too late to stop the last event.
On Friday my mobility scooter attacked me big time.
I was loading the mobility scooter up the ramp into the car, and it wasn't quite aligned right, so I reversed it back, unfortunately the speed control was set higher than normal, and the scooter went one way, off the ramp, and I was catapulted over the scooter, I hit the tarmac with my head, nearly causing concussion, and badly grazed my right hip.
Then I realised I couldn't move my left arm... it was clearly broken.
The break was just below the replacement shoulder prothesis, which was done 2.5 years ago
With osteoarthritis, and damage caused by the cancer in the bone, pinning was not an option.
We were shocked to hear the words...
" There's not much we can do !"
Basiclly treatment is to put the arm in a sling and "hope" it sets itself... no plaster, no support... just wait and see !!! back to the specialist in 2 weeks.
I am not happy.
A serious fall has been on the cards, as I am getting more wobbly by the day.
Richard
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On 1 September 2017 at 22:56, BroadAmbition said:
...Having a 2:1 reduction box, shaft speed is then 1'300rpm which is just about the max a greased gland can take continuously running, any more revs than that on the shaft and trouble is incoming Griff
All these things you have to consider, in the old days I thought you just took a Ford Anglia petrol engine, marinised it off you go, any old gear box, and any prop that would just fit.
Or take the later ford 1.6 diesel or BMC and hope for the best.
Mind you... I recon there are still many boats with the same installation 40+ years on, and still going strong lol. Not that efficient, but with proven reliability.
Richard
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12 hours ago, BroadAmbition said:
The incident with the ranger as we entered Horning went something like this:-
He caught up with us as we approached the Ferry Inn proceeding up river. There was about four crew onboard the BA launch. He got himself abreast of us about 10Yds on our Port side
R.I - 'Do you know how fast you are going' ?
Me - (I glanced down at the rev counter, it was in the days before we had the etrex onboard) 'Yes Thanks'
R.I - 'Well' ?
Me - 'Well what' ?
R.I - 'How fast are you going' ?
Me - '4mph'
R.I - 'No, you are doing 4:2mph, SLOW DOWN'
Me - (I took hold of the morse control and mad a play of reducing revs without actually doing so) 'That Better' ?
R.I - 'Better' and off he went (above the 4mph limit)
As has been stated previously and also imho he was an oxygen thief and full of his own importance, no doubt trying to impress his crew mates. A few days later I got a call from the senior river inspector asking me what had happened to which I told him of the above. He then sent me an email a few days further on explaining that he 'Had a word' with said weekend warrior and if it ever happened again I had his permission to tell the R.I what to go and do to himself!
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Other than the above I enjoy a good rapour with the river inspectors and often invite them onboard for a brew if they have the time to spare. Back in Late June of this year, we were mudweighted on Bridge Broad. 6 x lads fishing, it was a glorious sunny afternoon, so hot that I was naked from the waist up. Andy came cruising past in his BA launch. I called over to him
'These five lads on here are fishing without licences, I want you to come onboard, confiscate their gear and arrest the lot of them'
To which Andy replied quick as a flash
'The only person I'm going to arrest is you for indecent exposure'
Which I thought was a dam fine answer to be fair
Griff
At least he wasn't derogatory about your tackle lol.
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You want to try being moored up on a shallow canal in a small grp cruiser, when a 60' 25 tonnes steel narrow boat goes past you drawing 2' of water at 4mph within a foot of your hull.
That's a lot of canal water that has to be pushed aside between the steel boat and you, often lifting our boat a foot out of the water.
Problem is...as it goes past, your boat drops just as much, sometimes bottoming out on whatever is under the water. We used the boat hook to test the depth of water under the hull, if we had less than a foot we moved on. Very often the case on the narrow canals.
In restricted areas, where mooring was at a premium, we in effect.... keel hauled a couple of fenders under the hull, so they cushioned us from the horrible concrete. Note... No blue fenders were hurt during this operation.
You can never have too many fenders, we always keep a couple to hand with 2 metres of line to place as required.
Richard
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1 hour ago, Wildfuzz said:
Nice Knob!!! Throttle looks to be set well above 4mph though
1 hour ago, grendel said:looks to be about 4.2 mph to me.
I did think at first that he was running the engine at a mooring, tut tut ...but on close inspection of the control knob, it doesn't look like his knob has been pulled out (to engage neutral that is).
I can't believe I am writing this.lol
If someone has two engines, or the old fashioned twin control, one for gears, one for throttle, as in life it is often common for one to be slightly larger than the other.
Richard
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We were only talking about broads cruisers the other day, then a boat we had hired, Golden horizon pops up, if my prognosis was more than 12 months I may have considered it, but we are mostly using our current Viking 23 as accommodation when we babysit our grandson in Oxford most weeks. We do get a few cruises in though. Thank goodness for electric hook up lol.
Our daughter's house has three floors, so getting to the spare bedroom on the third floor is nearly impossible now. We had a stair lift fitted a couple of weeks ago at home, and that has been a godsend. I also bought a lift and recline chair that throws you out of it lol. so still getting about lol.
In fact, not even sure we could do the Norfolk run now from Staffordshire anymore.
We had thought about selling our Viking 23 and bringing in a bigger boat, more suited to winter accomodation and cruising. However, my condition seems to get worse by the week, so an option not really available to us. But the thought was there lol No point in tying up collateral, then the family trying to sell it months from now.
Richard
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It's also a support network for so many other things too. Our forum family has given me such fantastic support and a good old laugh at times, it's very much part of my life. My Aunt (the one who hates boats) say's I must be mad to go online and talk to a bunch of strangers, my response is always "They are not strangers simply friends I haven't met yet, don't knock it till you try it"
Baofeng PMR Radio Help!
in Technical Questions and Answers
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Anyone can transmit on the PMR channels without a licence of any form...
However.... there is a maximum transmit power that the PMR frequencies can use.
Unfortunately even selecting the lower power transmitt option in the settings, the Baofeng is just over this limit. So technically not legal. Who will check this violation? I guess if there are complaints then advice followed by prosecutions may follow.
Personally I have not heard of any prosecutions as yet.
There are a lot of people using them for this application, even on the higher powers, and 8 miles is possible..... so I am told... of course...