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Seem to have missed this but it's Sherz and Linz's video of their boat hire last year. Well recommended and just surprised they have not been on here to tell us it was available to view.

A collection of 8 videos from the Broads Authority detaling everything from general boat handling to stern on mooring: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7a1EFpkhL84rCWKX2Ad3Q

More images of pages from Hoseasons and Blakes brochures for those who like to see them - this time 1975 and 1976. Blakes brochure - notice Petit Barsac which at 19ft length must havebeen the shortest boat for hire on the Broads - unless you know different? Sanderling at the bottom was the first boat we hired in 1973, which in March cost us £29. Wishing Waters from Ripplecraft in Somerleyton had the distinction of being dual steer, incorporating a sort of flying bridge. Visionary thinking? Hoseasons brochures. We hired Calypso King in it's first season. Take a look at the Oulton Broad houseboats for hire - all gone now.

To be fair to Herbert Woods, the discounts are just for starts in the month of March. Offer Details Could it just be that the 14 boats offered have now completed their annual service and are now back in the water, perhaps ahead of schedule and therefore suitable to discount? Insurers and energy companies will often charge you extra for being loyal to them. Most people will have experienced that you can buy the same policy/power cheaper as a new customer if you compare prices. Yield management is employed across the travel industry now. Flight prices will generally be cheapest around launch dates but can "bobble around" right up to departure due to sophisticated computer algorithms which compare yield to expected levels and adjust the prices accordingly. You can still end up sitting next to someone who booked later than you but is paying less than you did. The aim is to achieve a specified load factor. Holiday companies have for a long time, loaded the peak month prices to subsidise the off-peak dates. The price you pay for a week in early May (away from bank holidays) is not a true reflection of the cost to the operator who will use premium date revenues to keep the off-peak dates "operational". This way they can keep staff on season long and iron out the expenses over the year to some extent. Rail fares changed because the operators were finding that their trains were full mornings and evenings but not so at other times. SO they needed to come up with a system where they offered off peak fares to people who would not be taking up seats already paid for in full by commuters and business people. That's where the advance part came in, so they could allocate a particular service to you, which was perhaps not selling well. Again it is the computerisation of the yield management which has enabled this. On top of this, there will always be a number of no shows/cancellations which are not refundable and can be resold, again built into the yield managament. I think we are likely to see more of this behaviour over time. It's a "wild west" out there but the benefit is that there are lower prices out there if you can seek them out.

There was definitely a yard at Stokesby - not sure which though. I remember reading on NBF that the place fell into disrepair over a number of years. The boats just sat there and literally sank! The story was that the operation was a husband and wife team and as I remember it, the husband found out that the wife had been playing away and through either just loss of interest in the business or perhaps a deliberate act to run down the value of the business in the event that a divorce settlement would follow. (Just as I remember it - no first hand knowledge)

This One?

Yes, the brochure is full of artist impressions of boats for Richardsons and Jack Powles

Here are some of the pages from Blakes 1975 brochure:

For those who enjoy looking at the older brochures, here are a few pages from the 1976 Broads Holiday brochure. I remember there were quite a few "odd looking" boats around at that time. Two here I think are a little "ungainly" are Cygnet, a 2 berth cruiser and Crystal Arrow (or Iona Line). Compare them to the super modern looking Fen Breeze.

If you let me know the name I will see if I can see it. There are around 30 cruisers/narrowboats shown. Hoseasons also offered boating on the South Devon coastline:

I have looked at both Hoseasons and Blakes for 1975 but no boat called Capri. Next I looked for a blue hulled boat starting from Loddon but apart from the Aston Boats which were fibreglass, there were none. I have a copy of the 1976 Broads Holidays brochure and looked through that but no Capri. The only one I can find starting from Loddon with a blue hull (cannot tell if wood/steel/fibreglass) is the one shown below.

Images of the 1982 brochure in question. Smitch - if you just want images of the page I am happy to do this for you without charge.

As luck would have it. I do have two copies of the 1982 brochure. Anyway, I will p.m. you about it.

I have a Hoseasons (and a Blakes) from 1975 if you want me to look anything up?

Well, I have 1982 and 1984 but not 1983. However on checking 1982, Swan Harmony is in there. Below taken from the brochure:

Beat me to it Simondo - but at least I have a photo! I

I have used my drone to take images of 11 points on the Broads over the last 12 months and have posted some of them on here as part of my holiday tales. I have managed to get some more stills from the video produced and together with the originals, you can see 61 images on a carousel linked below on a web page on my site. The originals are now orientated better and in some cases enhanced where they were either too dark or too light. Each location is taken from separate pages on my website so not all are captioned on this one long rolling carousel, which is not for general public viewing. To stop on a particular image, just hold your mouse over it. Needless to say, they are best viewed on a laptop, tablet or PC. The link: https://www.norfolkbroadsboathire.biz/map_viewer.asp

Wasn't me guv! I didn't discount Lightning - I didn't even mention it!

As a single person cruiser, I find the biggest advantage of being in a syndicate is that your options to hire are not being choked off by the number of boatyards now not hiring to us. I think Silver Cloud is a similar boat to Royall Oak but don't know if they currently have shares available.

Interesting what Photoshop can do. Diplomat when she was with Faircraft:

Just came across Sunway starting from Horning. Looks to be from the Richardsons stable. Link: https://www.hoseasons.co.uk/boat-holidays/sunway-bh2602

Jean, I don't think either of us will be convinced until someone has human eyes on the location! I am not there until April. Any offers?

Seriously though, in the image I posted earlier, you can see the reflection of the light in with windows of boats moored before and after the main subject. Would an infra-red camera reflect as bright as that?

Thanks - that's much clearer now! Night vision Infrared is used in night vision equipment when there is insufficient visible light to see.[23] Night vision devices operate through a process involving the conversion of ambient light photons into electrons that are then amplified by a chemical and electrical process and then converted back into visible light.[23] Infrared light sources can be used to augment the available ambient light for conversion by night vision devices, increasing in-the-dark visibility without actually using a visible light source.[23] The use of infrared light and night vision devices should not be confused with thermal imaging, which creates images based on differences in surface temperature by detecting infrared radiation (heat) that emanates from objects and their surrounding environment.[24]

Just looked at the camera and interestingly, Barnes appear to have added a spotlight to the apparatus. You can see it sweeping around at the same time as the camera so it clearly is attached. It is quite bright and it strikes me that if mooring there you had better have quite thick curtains. The arc of the camera also seems slower so those properties lining the river to the bridge will also get their regular chance to see how well the light works! You can see the light bloom on the image: