Grendels Deferred May Broads Holiday

[grendel]

when it comes to quiet, I have to say that despite being past the path that leads across to the mill, everyone and his neighbour seems to walk to the end of the mooring, find it leads nowhere, and then turn and go back, I have even had for a short while father and son set up to fish from the remaining 10' of bank before the little stream goes to join the other part of the river. there are now about 5 fishermen set up along the bank. but I have settled down with a good book and am enjoying a day of pure relaxation.

[grendel]

well thats cleared all but the hardiest of the fishermen, its started raining

[grendel]

there is another good side about the rain, and that means i have no excuse to put the book down and exert myself

 

[grendel]

while meanwhile chuckling at the wet and bedraggled paddle boarders returning to base

[Meantime]

Go on then, tease us, what you going to have with the steak tonight. From memory they do a very good Atkins and Potts Bearnaise sauce which goes particularly well with a good steak. A good glass of Malbec always goes down well as well. 

[grendel]

nothing that posh, it will be a plain steak with some (instant) mash, the steak itself is huge, its a rump steak and i was given a choice of half or 1/3 of the entire rump, 1" thick, i went for 1/3 as that was plenty big enough, much bigger wouldnt have fitted in the frying pan (the biggest cooking pot onboard)

[vanessan]

1 hour ago, Broads01 said:

One of my favourite moorings. I always think those cramming in at the Common don't know the Lock moorings exist.

Well stop telling them then! 

[Vaughan]

2 hours ago, EastCoastIPA said:

A good glass of Malbec always goes down well as well. 

A good steak deserves something from the Rhone Valley. Chateauneuf du Pape will always be good, or something with some "body" to it, from the Cotes de Nuits. A Vosne Romanée or a Gevrèy Chambertin.

If you can stand a teaspoon up in it, it will go well with a steak!  

[grendel]

And a very nice steak it was, so nice I nearly forgot to get a picture before I finished it. Just simply cooked with mash.

[charlesa]

Grendel where is the Coleman's mustard for heaven's sake !! 

[grendel]

so to update you on this quiet end of coltishall locks moorings, about 4pm a boat turned up, enquired of the fishermen lining the moorings where they should moor and were pointed toward the opposite bank, just down from me.

bloomin cheeky of the fisherman to start with. but since mooring up, at 5pm just as i started cooking my steak they fired the engines up, this carried on for about 45 minutes, now, 6.30pm, yes they have fired them up again, what on earth for, they cant have flattened the battery that quick, they surely have enough hot water for all of them to have a quick shower (or shower under way) still the last of the fishermen gave up 30 minutes ago and packed up and went, now i have a choice, do i use the shower or just open the roof hatch and use the rain.

[grendel]

36 minutes ago, charlesa said:

Grendel where is the Coleman's mustard for heaven's sake !! 

usually on my cheese and ham sandwiches

[NorfolkNog]

I think I'd have adjourned to the Recruiting Sergeant 

But this engine running lark is a pain in the proverbial. I'm not sure what the solution is. 

[Jbx5]

Get them told Grendel no point in beating around the bush with these ignoramuses😂

John  

[grendel]

its a long walk around to the other bank, besides i think an early start in the morning....

[grendel]

i have found one unusual feature on jayne, she has a 20 foot drive shaft operating the rudder, it is chain driven from the steering wheel, then runs off to one side all the way down the boat to a steering box, probably out of a car i guess

[grendel]

S

[Broads01]

38 minutes ago, NorfolkNog said:

I think I'd have adjourned to the Recruiting Sergeant 

But this engine running lark is a pain in the proverbial. I'm not sure what the solution is. 

I agree. What makes it worse very often is people add unneeded revs as well, increasing the noise level. I guess technology needs to move on to the point where people don't need diesel to heat water. The environment needs that too.

[grendel]

i arrived here at 9.30 this morning and there was still hot water for a shower just now, and thats after doing the washing up.

[grendel]

actually thinking on it, it may be a tractor steering box

[Turnoar]

Or a lorry component, purely based on a comment from a friend who is sadly no longer with us but did do a stint at martham many years ago on the engineering side in the early days. Sounds like you’re having a nice time!

[JanetAnne]

Chain front with the long rod to a steering box rear is the pretty standard Martham set up. Mostly maintenance free as well though occasionally a tight steering was found to be the bulkhead swelling slightly and nipping the shaft where it passed through!

[Arthur]

Years ago boats all had gas water heaters.

instant hot water and no need for running engines.

Then health and safety came along.

Plus of course theses days boats have no end of electrical items on board which of course drain the batteries.

240v inverters in particular 

 

[Vaughan]

3 hours ago, grendel said:

actually thinking on it, it may be a tractor steering box

The favourite one usually came from a Land Rover.

This was a common method of steering in the 50s and was very useful, as the wheel always stays wherever you have put it, including when going astern.

[grendel]

9 hours ago, Turnoar said:

Or a lorry component, purely based on a comment from a friend who is sadly no longer with us but did do a stint at martham many years ago on the engineering side in the early days. Sounds like you’re having a nice time!

loving it, sometimes its nice to get my nose into those parts of a boat you dont normally see, just to see how it works.