JennyMorgan Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 I can never understand the clamor to knock down that Bridge at Potter, it's a doddle, even in a cabin boat! 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadAmbition Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Really? You wanna try it whilst going astern onboard 'B.A' Griff 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawsOrca Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 why are they paddling through? are you not allowed to use engine power at all? The ones who sail up and drop the mast at the last moment, that's some skill and guts! I couldn't do that!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CambridgeCabby Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 12 hours ago, BroadAmbition said: Really? You wanna try it whilst going astern onboard 'B.A' Griff Waiting eagerly for the video Griff 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 23 minutes ago, JawsOrca said: The ones who sail up and drop the mast at the last moment, that's some skill and guts! I couldn't do that!! It's called "shooting" a bridge, which is what the wherries used to do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppy Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 43 minutes ago, JawsOrca said: why are they paddling through? are you not allowed to use engine power at all? The ones who sail up and drop the mast at the last moment, that's some skill and guts! I couldn't do that!! No. There are 'sections' at each bridge, marked by guard boats where paddeling or quanting is allowed but not engines. Quants/paddles may not be used outside of those sections. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadAmbition Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 It's called "shooting" a bridge, It is, and I reckon now it's been that long if I was to try and 'Shoot' owt let alone a bridge - I would miss! Griff 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEM Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Together with my brother I paddled a Martham Boat Dev Co half-decker through/under that bridge a number of times in the early 1970s. The only other bridge we did was Ludham to sial up to Barton Broad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Luckily the camera missed us going through that year.. It's easier to shoot the bridges, in a proper broads cruiser or something like a White boat ( Yare and Bure one design) , the tabernacle is designed for it. That year ( and many others) I did the race in a Yeoman, shooting the bridge in one of those is only really possible in very light winds, as if it's more, the wind pressure will twist the mast in the small deck mounted Tabernacle causing breakages.. On 30th May at around 08:00 I should have been getting a Hickling sailing Club rescue boat out, loaned to the race for the duration.. Taking the turn mark, radios, lights signs, safety equipment and food for 24hour to the end of the Hickling SC pier to await the arrival of the guardship loaned to us by Martham boats. We would then load up the the guardship, move out onto the broad, deposit the turning mark, set the guardship a short distance away. Set the rest up and do radio checks back to Horning Sailing Club before the start of the race, which this year would have been 10:30. We then settle in for a relaxing morning on the broad, till the fleets start arriving, listening in to the radio, for the positions of boats in the race. When the boats round the buoy leaving a tag in a basket attached, they call out their race number, which is listed with time passing on our charts, because we are "an end " they don't have to say to where the next guardship they will pass. Every 6 to 10 boats we radio back to control, " Race Control, Race Control, this is Hickling guardship, we have boats for you" on receiving , "Go ahead Hickling" we list the race numbers of the boats and the times passing. So it continues, till either we run out of boats to record, or those that have no hope of finishing, have been persuaded to retire. Once the guardship and rescue boat has been returned, I take all the equipment back to Horning SC, where we, the guardship crew meet up for the Famous 3 River Race Breakfast . A similar day will have occurred for the others in the dozen guardships, each having 4 crew and their own rescue boat . As it is the 60th 3 Rivers Race has been cancelled this year, and will be run on 5th / 6th June 2021. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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