ranworthbreeze Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Dear All Urgent Boating News - Breydon Water is currently closed to hire craft due to poor visibility. We will confirm when it has been re-opened. Kind Regards Laura Milner Administrative Officer Operations Broads Authority Tel: 01603 756035 Broads Authority, Yare House, 62-64 Thorpe Road. Norwich NR1 1RY01603 610734www.broads-authority.gov.uk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted April 11, 2018 Author Share Posted April 11, 2018 Breydon Water was opened for a short time this afternoon but is now closed again. Dear All Urgent Boating News - Unfortunately Breydon Water has been closed to hire craft again due to poor visibility. We will confirm when it has been re-opened. Kind regards Laura Milner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hylander Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Looking at the Gt Yarmouth web cams it does look as if it is closing in again, more like November than April. https://www.great-yarmouth.co.uk/visitor-info/webcam.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 we must watch out for the Teasel and Titmouse aground on the mud 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hylander Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 By the look of it is just as bad today. What happens if you cannot get across to return your hire boat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 It is closed again this morning and according to Facebook the BA will escort some hireboats across later today if needed.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 2 hours ago, Hylander said: By the look of it is just as bad today. What happens if you cannot get across to return your hire boat? I would imagine that the boat owners would contact a a boatyard that the stranded hirers could reach and ask them to do the changeover, then take the new hirers to this yard in a minibus which would collect the returning hirers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNog Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Yep, looks like an escort is planned Our Rangers are planning to escort vessels across Breydon Water from Berney to Great Yarmouth Yacht Station around 13:15hrs (an hour before low water), and then an escort from Great Yarmouth back to Berney following that (times may be subject to change) https://t.co/D4PVaq9I8W 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hylander Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Thank you for the link, I was beginning to wonder how this was going to go. It is not good to be stuck thanks to the fog. Not doing Facebook or twitter and I am sure others would also not be doing Facebook or twitter how would you know , may be only by word of mouth. I have looked at the Broads Authority Latest News on their web site and not a mention of any of this. Not good enough. Just wondering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 its under urgent boating information:- http://www.broads-authority.gov.uk/boating/navigating-the-broads/urgent-boating-information Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hylander Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 3 minutes ago, grendel said: its under urgent boating information:- http://www.broads-authority.gov.uk/boating/navigating-the-broads/urgent-boating-information No mention of any convoy on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 true, maybe they were just collecting them up as they arrived to cross, and conversely holding them at the yacht station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hylander Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 I get a bit concerned that there is an assumption that everyone is on Twitter or Facebook and I am afraid it just is not so. I think word of mouth would be the only way anyone would find out if they were not glued to these sites all day long. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 The BA were going to organise a convoy but they heard people saying that they weren't gonna pay no toll 10-4. hell, that ages me! 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted April 12, 2018 Author Share Posted April 12, 2018 1 minute ago, MauriceMynah said: The BA were going to organise a convoy but they heard people saying that they weren't gonna pay no toll 10-4. hell, that ages me! Hi John, Not in the least good buddy Regards Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 10 minutes ago, ranworthbreeze said: Hi John, Not in the least good buddy Regards Alan They're probably holding up the convoy for the late arrival of eleven long - haired friends of Jesus in a shartroos micro-bus! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoggy Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Just seen a rubber duck swim through reedham... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclemike Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 watch out for dirty lyle and his speed camera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpy Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Northbound and up,loaded up and chugging? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Ah good old CW McCall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRascal Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 4 hours ago, Hylander said: I get a bit concerned that there is an assumption that everyone is on Twitter or Facebook and I am afraid it just is not so. I think word of mouth would be the only way anyone would find out if they were not glued to these sites all day long. The fact is the majority tend to win - take electric and gas bills, nobody likes the things but I have recently moved not only over to paperless but pay thru and manage my account using the iPhone App for E.on and British Gas. So easy, so simple. It is easy for utility companies to then push the ‘old fashion’ paper bill preferring folk to give up using everything from the environment being saved if they do to slapping the discount carrot in front of them if only they would go paperless and save a little The same on a kind of social scale applies with Facebook. It is so much part of our lives that people talk about events there as if it is a mutual friend and everyone else knows what they are referring to. It is true that not everyone uses Facebook but since so many of the worlds population now do (and will continue to despite the recent issues of privacy) because of its ease to stay connected to things. It’s the very need to stay up to date and in the loop that keeps people part of the circus. Add in the fact you’re automatically notified whenever someone says something on a Group or adds a comment of reply and it makes near live updates and reading possible of a situation esp silly since most of the users of Facebook interact through their phones. A chap called Dave Whitworth was live streaming the convoy over Breydon on the Norfolk Broads Boaters Facebook Group and I was watching and commenting from Middlesborough train station. Despite this being pretty technically amazing, it seems now so everyday at the same time. It was also quite a spectical seeig so many boats in a line over the water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 I only realised I had left my mobile at home today when I went to pick it up off my desk and put it in my pocket to come home, shows how much notice I take of my phone. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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