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I'd base at one of the Southern locations that's lost all its fleets, namely St Olaves, Oulton Broad or Beccles. I'd specialise in offering older boats that had had a complete gut out and replacement interior, in the way Richardsons used to do so well. That way I'd hope to offer value for money boating.

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3 hours ago, Bluebell said:

Maybe located in Ranworth - Norfolk Boats - Norfolk This and Norfolk That etc with a good mix of well maintained boats...

Could I suggest a name or two for you ... Norfolk Enchants maybe? Norfolk 'n Good, Norfolk 'n Way?

OK, seeing as we are entering fantasy land ..... here goes. 

My boatyard would be built on the Woodbastwick Road immediately south of Blofield Heath, which is not as much of a problem as it might sound because as part of my master plan I am digging the cut between the Yare immediately upstream of Brundall, running north under a new viaduct on the southern bypass then turning east towards Blofield Heath, passing to the south of the village. I'm sorry the outlook for the Blofield Business center is bleak as that's where my new river goes under the road, and the field immediately under that bridge will be my marina.

So the marina will incorporate a hire basin to service around 80 hire boats, in addition around 50 private moorings and 100 residential berths. Each private mooring will have a private parking space adjacent, plus a small storage shed and electric hook up. Residential berths will also feature fresh water for each mooring and a 12' square patio area for barbecues etc. 

The orange block is a Londis style convenience shop with the rear providing stores and life jacket station for the hire boats. The yellow block alongside is the marina office and reception. Green lines are general access roads, light blue lines restricted access roads for private berth holders and the red lines secured access for residential berths. The pale grey block is the service shed, purple is car parking and the lime green in the north east corner is hard standing. 

My eighty hire boats will be 10 different classes, 8 of each from 2 berth to 8 berths and will be new builds around classic designs. Half of each class will run weekly Saturday to Saturday whilst the other half 3 / 4 / 7 nights with Monday and Friday starts. 

The ten styles I would choose to create modern versions of would be

Hampton Safari

Alpha 29, 35 and 42 center cockpit

Alpha 35 and 44 highliners

Aquafibre Sapphire 32

Aston Seamaster 30

Westward 38

Topcrft Alpha 32

My new waterway will be protected by a stop lock at each end and subject to a modest toll, weekly. monthly or annually. Got to keep the peasant out somehow 

 

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All kidding aside,I wonder how much longer Barnes can operate from their current site. They have a new big boat due later this year and they never seem to build just one per class. Turnaround days must be a nightmare but what would be the chances of them getting new land and planning permission to develop a new site, definitely nowhere in the Wroxham area I guess. The old ph site in Wroxham was a decent size facility sadly the bridge put an end to its days as a modern day hire base. The horizon yard at acle again seem to have room for a new basin or two, but I guess the Richardsons would of done that if it was viable. Im told there's no point in having less then 12 boats in a hire fleet if you want to make some money. So where would you go...

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33 minutes ago, andyg said:

Im told there's no point in having less then 12 boats in a hire fleet if you want to make some money.

Actually, It's 17, but Wussername is sensible to say more than 20.

You also need to diversify.  No-one these days, can make money out of hire boats alone.  You need income from private moorings, private boat maintenance, holiday cottages, a camp site, day launches and whatever else you can think of.

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16 minutes ago, Vaughan said:

Actually, It's 17, but Wussername is sensible to say more than 20.

You also need to diversify.  No-one these days, can make money out of hire boats alone.  You need income from private moorings, private boat maintenance, holiday cottages, a camp site, day launches and whatever else you can think of.

Make my idea of havana even more appealing 😉 I'm off to pack my shorts 

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My ideal would be to bring sailing hire back to the southern Broads. Unfortunately it will probably remain a fantasy for anyone as it probably would not be economically viable. But let's just assume it could be.

I am thinking that being based on Oulton Broad would be ideal. The fleet would be made up of a combination of half deckers and yachts, with the half deckers being available for half day and full day hire. All the boats would be existing ones, and would retain their original names. As well as providing hire ervices there would be an associated sailing school teaching the RYA keelboat syllabus and other relevant courses. Meanwhile on the salt side there would be 2 or 3 yachts of around 40ft properly equipped to teach RYA sail cruising courses. These would also be available for charter. The premise would be that you could come and learn to sail then come back and sail independently, both on the Broads and at Sea.

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A fleet of ‘rescued from the bonfire’ woodies based at South Walsham. 
Janet Anne would be in charge of the maintenance schedule and Id allow Selsie to replace the odd plank or two.  Robin’s wife would do the varnishing . As someone said on the Golden Light thread, there would be no need for any mirrors so Id save a bit there :default_icon_e_biggrin:  There has to be cake so each boat would have a complimentary afternoon tea on arrival.    

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I'd base mine on a semi- floating pontoon on  Breydon water, accessible via a causeway from the A47.  Boats available would be  poled punts and rowed camping skiffs.  In the remote event of  hirers being able to actually get off Breydon, they would be able to enjoy a back to nature, environmentally friendly holiday experience on either the Northern or Southern Broads, depending on wind and tide. I would have a deckchair on which to lounge and admire the view, as I doubt if I would get many customers. given that, by the time this gets off the ground, the national parks people will have banned cars. 

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OK folks, it's time to get moving on this, I've done all the maths and once I managed to find a pen which would write clearly on a Benson & Hedges packet it all went brilliantly. I have surveyed the route with a pencil and print out from Google Earth and it works out at precisely 5.2000 miles or 9152 yards. I haven't bothered looking at elevation too much because we all know that Norfolk is flat, so that will not be a problem. The first issue is to dig a ditch, 9152 yards long, 30 yards wide and 2 deep. That is just under 550k square yards of earth to move but that should be easy enough. I was watching a show on Discovery the other day "Goldrush" and Parker Schnaebel's gold crew "stripped" overburden from a cut 600 yards long, 200 wide and 30 feet deep in a week, that's 1.2 million cubic yards in just seven days using a 470 excavator, and they had to transport all of the spoil away with a rock truck, a kind of massive dumper. All we have to do is make a ditch and pile the spoil on the edges to form a flood bank. We will build a decent flood bank because we care about out neighbours, even though the plan means this new canal will not be tidal as it will incorporate a stop lock at each end. This will maintain a fixed water level under all bridges and we can check toll payments at the locks, ensuring no craft which has not paid our canal toll gains access.

I have found a company in Shropshire who have a used 490 excavator for sale, which is a bit bigger than Parker's. They want £150k for it but I'm thinking if we get it on seven days approval then decide it's not for us we just give it them back. As we have less than half the ground to clear than Parker then we should be able to get it done working nights only, for obvious reasons and we need to work quietly! There is a problem with these excavators, and that is that they use huge amounts of diesel, about 100 gallons a day so if anyone has a fuel card for the Shell at the Brundall roundabout can we borrow it please?

The land we are digging up will total about 75 acres, allowing 5 yard each side of the river for food banks, worth about one and a quarter million pounds which could be an issue as the current budget is the contents of my eldest son's post office money box and the three pound coins in the ashtray of the car I keep for shopping trollies. So I propose a share issue, for every meter of ground we dig the owner gets share in the company, more on that later.

The next issue is the engineering, and this caused some considerable consternation for quite a few minutes but I think I see a way around it. The first major problem we hit when leaving the river Yare is the Norwich to Lowestoft railway line which we need to get under, but it is pretty low so we will need to lift it up a bit. I have looked at a document "standards for the construction of mainline railways" which quotes a maximum incline for modern high speed trains between 2.5 and 4 %, however looking at the rolling stock on this line it can hardly be considered high speed, or modern so I suggest we stick to 1% or 1:100. Bridge clearances on my new canal will be 10 foot, I think that is all we can afford unless the Brundall navy wants to have a whip round in which case we can make it more at their expense. In order to accommodate the bridge structure therefore we will need to raise the line 4 yards, which means jacking up a total length of 800 yards, 400 either side of the bridge. This shouldn't be too difficult, we can use the muck we are digging out of our canal to form the embankment but this will mean transporting it. We can't afford a rock truck I'm afraid but I do have my trailer, it's quite big at 6 x 4 feet but if anyone else has one and could lend a hand a few more would come in handy. Again i suggest this is work best undertaken at night. This would eventually lift the railway sufficiently to allow a headroom of 10 feet under the bridge, however it might cause some slight issues at Brundall Railway station which is in close proximity to the eastern end of the bridge and will therefore mean quite a climb from the platform into the carriages. I am currently watching a number of used step ladders on ebay to overcome this.

Now the bridges themselves are quite a problem, they tend to be a tad expensive and as already mentioned, budget is tight but I have had a word with a mate of mine who is a Sergeant Major in the Royal Engineers. He is always complaining that they do nothing but hang around down at the Royal School in Chatham and how it's all regimental dinners and such so he suggests at one of those dinners they serve a few extra glasses of port and whilst the officers are sleeping it off he and a couple of dozen of his squaddies will slip up to Norfolk and undertake some "training exercises". They are used to working in the dark, in their line of business it can be quite advantageous not to be to be too conspicuous and he thinks that they can do one bridge a night, which takes care of the one railway and five minor roads we need to bridge over the canal within the one week timescale previously determined.

Our next major hurdle is the southern bypass where sadly the fixes used thus far are not going to cut the mustard. I don’t think NCC let alone Highways England would appreciate it if we cut a trench 120 feet wide across the closest thing Norfolk has to a motorway, and try as they might I doubt that even the Royal Engineers can get us out of this one. I have determined after careful survey (well looking on the OS anyway) that the road by the radio masts at Postwick crests a hill of some fourteen feet, just what we need and right where we need it. We can tunnel underneath and not delay a single vehicle. So, I thought, TBMs, for the layman that means tunnel boring machines. There must be some lying around doing nothing. Sadly the cost of the Chiltern HS2 tunnel is estimated at £160m a mile! Now we only need two hundred meters but that still adds up to more than 20 million pounds. I am confident that we could secure the funding for our new “Dr. John Packman” tunnel from the Broads Authority tolls reserve account however at the very thought I am getting a somewhat uncomfortable, prickly kind of feeling right between my shoulder blades. Therefore once again, ingenuity must be the answer. My old mate Albert down the village has an old John Deere tractor, I know it still works as he was out and about clearing snow with it over the weekend.

I plan to weld a frame to attach to the back of the tractor with a rotating disc driven by the PTO with a number of scraper blades welded in turn to the disc. We dig a hole, drop it in then simply back up to the embankment under the road and start boring. I can’t imagine there is any bedrock under there to deal with so our home made TBM will scrape away the soil and then when it reaches a certain point it will drop into a chute depositing it in front of the tractor from where our aforementioned trailer team can haul it away, perhaps to the railway which we have to prop up. We will need to line our tunnel to avoid cave ins, no corners being cut on this project. On the motorway near here they are busy taking up the armco barrier from the central reservation and replacing it with a sectional concrete wall. Miles and miles of old barrier is being trucked away presumably for recycling. What I plan to do is nip in the cab whilst the driver answers a call of nature and amend his sat nav to an appropriate point on the Southern Bypass where I will erect a sign saying “Recycling Station” and after he has unloaded them we can use them to line our tunnel with.

There will be a charge to use this new waterway, initially £10 for 24 hours or £25 for seven consecutive days. Longer periods price on request. Consider the saving on the fuel spent transiting Great Yarmouth and its WIN! WIN! WIN!

I know there might be one or two unforeseen circumstances which attempt to derail us but I’m sure with this display of ingenuity we can overcome them. I certainly think we are ready to launch our share issue and allow all you lucky people to join in the excitement.

Shares will cost £50 each, and in line with local custom will have no cash or trade value, they will not be subject to any dividend payment and will not increase in value. Nor will they entitle the share holder to any discount or privilege. They may only be sold or transferred with the written approval of the organising committee, that’s me, by the way. I know you can’t wait to sign up, so I will post my Nigerian Bank Account details shortly, please deposit your payments of £50 per share (no limit on number of shares available!). Why not take advantage of our special offer of twenty shares for £1000? Anyone buying more than 1000 shares will receive one extra share ABSOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE!

 

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3 hours ago, Paul said:

OK folks, it's time to get moving on this, I've done all the maths and once I managed to find a pen which would write clearly on a Benson & Hedges packet it all went brilliantly. I have surveyed the route with a pencil and print out from Google Earth and it works out at precisely 5.2000 miles or 9152 yards. I haven't bothered looking at elevation too much because we all know that Norfolk is flat, so that will not be a problem. The first issue is to dig a ditch, 9152 yards long, 30 yards wide and 2 deep. That is just under 550k square yards of earth to move but that should be easy enough. I was watching a show on Discovery the other day "Goldrush" and Parker Schnaebel's gold crew "stripped" overburden from a cut 600 yards long, 200 wide and 30 feet deep in a week, that's 1.2 million cubic yards in just seven days using a 470 excavator, and they had to transport all of the spoil away with a rock truck, a kind of massive dumper. All we have to do is make a ditch and pile the spoil on the edges to form a flood bank. We will build a decent flood bank because we care about out neighbours, even though the plan means this new canal will not be tidal as it will incorporate a stop lock at each end. This will maintain a fixed water level under all bridges and we can check toll payments at the locks, ensuring no craft which has not paid our canal toll gains access.

I have found a company in Shropshire who have a used 490 excavator for sale, which is a bit bigger than Parker's. They want £150k for it but I'm thinking if we get it on seven days approval then decide it's not for us we just give it them back. As we have less than half the ground to clear than Parker then we should be able to get it done working nights only, for obvious reasons and we need to work quietly! There is a problem with these excavators, and that is that they use huge amounts of diesel, about 100 gallons a day so if anyone has a fuel card for the Shell at the Brundall roundabout can we borrow it please?

The land we are digging up will total about 75 acres, allowing 5 yard each side of the river for food banks, worth about one and a quarter million pounds which could be an issue as the current budget is the contents of my eldest son's post office money box and the three pound coins in the ashtray of the car I keep for shopping trollies. So I propose a share issue, for every meter of ground we dig the owner gets share in the company, more on that later.

The next issue is the engineering, and this caused some considerable consternation for quite a few minutes but I think I see a way around it. The first major problem we hit when leaving the river Yare is the Norwich to Lowestoft railway line which we need to get under, but it is pretty low so we will need to lift it up a bit. I have looked at a document "standards for the construction of mainline railways" which quotes a maximum incline for modern high speed trains between 2.5 and 4 %, however looking at the rolling stock on this line it can hardly be considered high speed, or modern so I suggest we stick to 1% or 1:100. Bridge clearances on my new canal will be 10 foot, I think that is all we can afford unless the Brundall navy wants to have a whip round in which case we can make it more at their expense. In order to accommodate the bridge structure therefore we will need to raise the line 4 yards, which means jacking up a total length of 800 yards, 400 either side of the bridge. This shouldn't be too difficult, we can use the muck we are digging out of our canal to form the embankment but this will mean transporting it. We can't afford a rock truck I'm afraid but I do have my trailer, it's quite big at 6 x 4 feet but if anyone else has one and could lend a hand a few more would come in handy. Again i suggest this is work best undertaken at night. This would eventually lift the railway sufficiently to allow a headroom of 10 feet under the bridge, however it might cause some slight issues at Brundall Railway station which is in close proximity to the eastern end of the bridge and will therefore mean quite a climb from the platform into the carriages. I am currently watching a number of used step ladders on ebay to overcome this.

Now the bridges themselves are quite a problem, they tend to be a tad expensive and as already mentioned, budget is tight but I have had a word with a mate of mine who is a Sergeant Major in the Royal Engineers. He is always complaining that they do nothing but hang around down at the Royal School in Chatham and how it's all regimental dinners and such so he suggests at one of those dinners they serve a few extra glasses of port and whilst the officers are sleeping it off he and a couple of dozen of his squaddies will slip up to Norfolk and undertake some "training exercises". They are used to working in the dark, in their line of business it can be quite advantageous not to be to be too conspicuous and he thinks that they can do one bridge a night, which takes care of the one railway and five minor roads we need to bridge over the canal within the one week timescale previously determined.

Our next major hurdle is the southern bypass where sadly the fixes used thus far are not going to cut the mustard. I don’t think NCC let alone Highways England would appreciate it if we cut a trench 120 feet wide across the closest thing Norfolk has to a motorway, and try as they might I doubt that even the Royal Engineers can get us out of this one. I have determined after careful survey (well looking on the OS anyway) that the road by the radio masts at Postwick crests a hill of some fourteen feet, just what we need and right where we need it. We can tunnel underneath and not delay a single vehicle. So, I thought, TBMs, for the layman that means tunnel boring machines. There must be some lying around doing nothing. Sadly the cost of the Chiltern HS2 tunnel is estimated at £160m a mile! Now we only need two hundred meters but that still adds up to more than 20 million pounds. I am confident that we could secure the funding for our new “Dr. John Packman” tunnel from the Broads Authority tolls reserve account however at the very thought I am getting a somewhat uncomfortable, prickly kind of feeling right between my shoulder blades. Therefore once again, ingenuity must be the answer. My old mate Albert down the village has an old John Deere tractor, I know it still works as he was out and about clearing snow with it over the weekend.

I plan to weld a frame to attach to the back of the tractor with a rotating disc driven by the PTO with a number of scraper blades welded in turn to the disc. We dig a hole, drop it in then simply back up to the embankment under the road and start boring. I can’t imagine there is any bedrock under there to deal with so our home made TBM will scrape away the soil and then when it reaches a certain point it will drop into a chute depositing it in front of the tractor from where our aforementioned trailer team can haul it away, perhaps to the railway which we have to prop up. We will need to line our tunnel to avoid cave ins, no corners being cut on this project. On the motorway near here they are busy taking up the armco barrier from the central reservation and replacing it with a sectional concrete wall. Miles and miles of old barrier is being trucked away presumably for recycling. What I plan to do is nip in the cab whilst the driver answers a call of nature and amend his sat nav to an appropriate point on the Southern Bypass where I will erect a sign saying “Recycling Station” and after he has unloaded them we can use them to line our tunnel with.

There will be a charge to use this new waterway, initially £10 for 24 hours or £25 for seven consecutive days. Longer periods price on request. Consider the saving on the fuel spent transiting Great Yarmouth and its WIN! WIN! WIN!

I know there might be one or two unforeseen circumstances which attempt to derail us but I’m sure with this display of ingenuity we can overcome them. I certainly think we are ready to launch our share issue and allow all you lucky people to join in the excitement.

Shares will cost £50 each, and in line with local custom will have no cash or trade value, they will not be subject to any dividend payment and will not increase in value. Nor will they entitle the share holder to any discount or privilege. They may only be sold or transferred with the written approval of the organising committee, that’s me, by the way. I know you can’t wait to sign up, so I will post my Nigerian Bank Account details shortly, please deposit your payments of £50 per share (no limit on number of shares available!). Why not take advantage of our special offer of twenty shares for £1000? Anyone buying more than 1000 shares will receive one extra share ABSOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE!

 

 

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On 26/01/2021 at 21:06, MauriceMynah said:

My boatyard would be at Hickling. The fleet of about 300 boats would comprise mainly 45 footers with flying bridges. Equipped with electric 'everythings' and two generators each capable of fully charging the batteries in an hour or so. These twin engined craft would be capable of going on the plane but there will be clear notices reminding the hirers of the 4mph limits.

The smaller cruising arear will be compensated for by the quieter waterway.

Whilst the business would be doomed eventually to fail, it's purpose would be to take Marshmans mind off the things I'd be planning to do to get the clearance of PHB back to where it was back in the late 90s..

eventuallly?

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ok, I know it just for fun but im here to put you all off the idea! 

I think there are a few things to bear in mind...

There are easier ways to make money. 

buying old boats and letting them cheap is how my old mad did well but he had about 700 boats in the peak, it was a big chore and that was then... 

building new boats isn't easy but if you already have the overhead covered then its a great idea.. 

just because you have a massive fleet doesn't mean you can make money.

just because you have a lovely small fleet doesn't mean you can make money. 

run your fleet with 1 man to  8 boats. 

you can't run 8 boats with 1 man. 

you can't do it on your own. 

run a profitable business alongside your boating operation! .

you only make money with a boatyard when you sell it. (most of the money made in the 80s and 90s was in the land values)

If you want to do it and you can then do, you only live once!. 

As you can see its full of contradictions so don't take any advice, everyone is wrong except you, if you want to please everyone all the time then forget it, just listen to people and do what you want to! 

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13 hours ago, C.Ricko said:

 

you only make money with a boatyard when you sell it. (most of the money made in the 80s and 90s was in the land values)

If you want to do it and you can then do, you only live once!. 

 

Those two are the key points. 

Freedom begun with the second of those two points. 14 years later, I realised the first point. And I only ever rented the land and closed rather than sold..... 

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I can think of one yard that famously sold out to a PLC at a healthy price only to buy back a few years later at a much lesser price. 

So many yards have gone, which must say something about the viability of the industry. Oulton Broad, at one time, had over twenty boatyards and during the 60s/70's heydays the Broad was a vibrant hub competing with Wroxham for popularity. One by one those yards sadly and inevitably closed. As a part owner of Fowlers, like others we had a way out, we sold our land for housing or at least alternative uses. Fowlers, at that time, regularly had twenty plus week seasons, we had some good boats, we'd both built and also bought in boats from yards that had closed. We maintained our boats to a good standard, maybe too good, maintenance cost money.  I don't think that we were ever flogging a dead horse but there were undoubtedly easier ways of making a living than hiring boats! 

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20 hours ago, Paul said:

OK folks, it's time to get moving on this, I've done all the maths and once I managed to find a pen which would write clearly on a Benson & Hedges packet it all went brilliantly. I have surveyed the route with a pencil and print out from Google Earth and it works out at precisely 5.2000 miles or 9152 yards. I haven't bothered looking at elevation too much because we all know that Norfolk is flat, so that will not be a problem. The first issue is to dig a ditch, 9152 yards long, 30 yards wide and 2 deep. That is just under 550k square yards of earth to move but that should be easy enough. I was watching a show on Discovery the other day "Goldrush" and Parker Schnaebel's gold crew "stripped" overburden from a cut 600 yards long, 200 wide and 30 feet deep in a week, that's 1.2 million cubic yards in just seven days using a 470 excavator, and they had to transport all of the spoil away with a rock truck, a kind of massive dumper. All we have to do is make a ditch and pile the spoil on the edges to form a flood bank. We will build a decent flood bank because we care about out neighbours, even though the plan means this new canal will not be tidal as it will incorporate a stop lock at each end. This will maintain a fixed water level under all bridges and we can check toll payments at the locks, ensuring no craft which has not paid our canal toll gains access.

I have found a company in Shropshire who have a used 490 excavator for sale, which is a bit bigger than Parker's. They want £150k for it but I'm thinking if we get it on seven days approval then decide it's not for us we just give it them back. As we have less than half the ground to clear than Parker then we should be able to get it done working nights only, for obvious reasons and we need to work quietly! There is a problem with these excavators, and that is that they use huge amounts of diesel, about 100 gallons a day so if anyone has a fuel card for the Shell at the Brundall roundabout can we borrow it please?

The land we are digging up will total about 75 acres, allowing 5 yard each side of the river for food banks, worth about one and a quarter million pounds which could be an issue as the current budget is the contents of my eldest son's post office money box and the three pound coins in the ashtray of the car I keep for shopping trollies. So I propose a share issue, for every meter of ground we dig the owner gets share in the company, more on that later.

OK - all looks good so far.

A couple of suggestions if I may?

Instead of rushing the digging part lets all slow down and turn this into a funding stream. Buy a digger and charge Yarmouth holiday makers £15/hr (£40 hr for family of 4. No under 5`s, Dogs to be kept on a lead etc) to come and have a go on a "Proper Norfolk Digger" That way we are sort of getting them to pay us to do our work. 

An initial purchase price for the 490 which you estimate at £150k would leave us needing 10,000 people to have a go to get our money back. This number coincidentally equals the number of people in Lathams on any given Saturday so selling the spaces will not be a problem. That`s 416.37 person days so lets assume we wont work Bank Holidays or really nice boating days and I estimate if we started this weekend we could be finished by April 15th 2022, just in time for Covid restrictions to be lifted and the start of the season. 

We then sell the 490 for £200k. The increase in price is due to the fact it has been used in the construction of the greatest engineering project in Norfolk since Market Gates was built.  

A small gift shop selling T-Shirts, Tea Towels, T-Bags etc would create local jobs and help finance the project. 

 

I imagine there will be lots of mud and stuff dug up and we could actually sell this on at a profit. Stalham High Street now has 1 beauty salon for every three residents and if we use this as an average then I estimate that there are 1.2 million such shops with a 15 mile radius of Norwich. Imagine bathing in the slightly warmed up, soothing (and healing) Norfolk Mud (Trademark applied for) People will flock for this. I am also coining and copyrighting the phrase "Dig it and they will come"

If each shop takes 1 ton each at £20 per ton (discounts for larger orders obviously ) we will soon have enough money to consider dualling the river bypass. Imagine that. Never again will you be confronted with a boat coming the other way and weaving about on YOUR side of the river. 

Finally (for now) we have a bit of a housing crisis across the country. We will have in the county both Wattle and now a readily available source of Daub. These are the perfect materials to build wattle and daub houses. The daub (or mud if you prefer) is environmentally friendly and locally sourced. There will be a tariff free supply made available to the whole of Norfolk although exports to Suffolk and beyond may incur a 5% uplift. 

This is going to be big I tell you. BIG!!

I then propose we licence this model to other parts of the world. And then set up The Independent Kingdom of East Anglia. (IKEA) to control our borders. I have owned the FB group for this for a few years now so I get to be in charge of this bit. https://www.facebook.com/Home-Rule-for-East-Anglia-1136712846369732

If I can be of any further assistance please etc etc,

Yours etc etc

Andy

 

Ultimately we will be able to dig a moat around the whole 

 

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