How To Go Under Wroxham Bridge After The Pilot Goes Home

[smellyloo]

When I was a lad if you told sir that a boy was bullying you you got a clip round the ears for telling tales!!

Ahhhh . the good old days ey?

[Hylander]

2 hours ago, JennyMorgan said:

So long as it doesn't become a contact sport then! 

Speaking of contact sports ,  dont forget Tim and Pru at 8 tonight.

[JennyMorgan]

1 hour ago, Hylander said:

Speaking of contact sports ,  dont forget Tim and Pru at 8 tonight.

I set it for record several days ago!

[Paul]

Maybe it's just my natural positive outlook on life, but I watched that thinking, what a good job.The helmsman showed decent enough skill, positioning the boat on approach, bringing it to a stop, holding it in the stream, lining it up etc. OK, he let the stern swing a little to far to starboard, but we are not all experts. Then letting the crew "leg it" under the bridge, perhaps they were more used to the canals, legging forty tons of narrow boat through a mile or two of tunnel. I don't think getting under Wroxham Bridge is quite in that league. 

I rather liked the video. OK, breaking the rules and therefore not something I would do (because I haven't got the balls!) but it does rather remind one of the times before pilots when people had to negotiate the bridge themselves, before the world was taken over by the nanny state.

[MauriceMynah]

34 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:

I set it for record several days ago!

Silly Boy.....  It wasn't on "several days ago"

[JennyMorgan]

1 hour ago, MauriceMynah said:

Silly Boy.....  It wasn't on "several days ago"

Equally silly boy, I pressed the 'record the entire series' button several days ago for the forthcoming series!! Gosh, have I got that right after all?

[L8DAVE]

I'll hold my hands up ...... Been guilty myself of not using pilot at Wroxham , but thankfully after gaining 15 years of hire boat experience , without incident 

[JanetAnne]

I believe that the Wroxham pilot is required for and only for boats supplied by yards that are on the pilots list. The pilot will not take hire boats not on his list nor private boats through irrespective of requests. 

The potter heigham pilot is available to all though