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andyg

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Looks like cover girl or money penny from NYA at Brundall. The tide going out has probably made that look worse then it is. That said how long did they wait till they called for help. Surely the lifeboat responded quite quickly. Hopefully everyone and the are OK. 

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I am going to ask the obvious question as well. 

 

It is pitch black in that video. Hire boats are not allowed to navigate at night. What were they doing on the river after dark?

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It might help to look at some useful facts first.

The Facebook page says that they were paged at 20:58 which is when it was still light. Since it takes them some time to scramble and get the rescue services there it would have been dark by the time they arrived.

Low water was also at 23:44 in Reedham last night, so given that they had a problem some time before 20:58 when the rescue service was paged they probably got stranded 3 to 4 hrs before low water. There is a big rise and fall in that area.

Anything else at this stage will be mere speculation and best left to the inane comments section on Faceache.

 

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3 minutes ago, Cal said:

I am going to ask the obvious question as well. 

 

It is pitch black in that video. Hire boats are not allowed to navigate at night. What were they doing on the river after dark?

I was thinking the same, surely it didn't take hours for the emergency services to respond. Even the most inexperienced of skippers would realise quite quickly they had a big problem. So we can only assume they were travelling after dark. As Vaughan has said it looks like it's hit the bank at some speed. Let's hope not to much damage has been caused.

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Seems most people are more interested in the video, than reading the editorial that accompanied it. To be fair you don't even need to click on the see more link to be able to read the first line as highlighted,

Hemsby Broads Rescue was paged at 20:58 last night by Humber Coastguard to assist with the evacuation of a family of six who were in harm’s way due their hire vessel running aground just east of Reedham.

Due to tidal conditions and the position of the vessel it was not possible to either recover the vessel or leave the family on board. Three crew members were put onboard the casualty vessel to provide care and safety advice to the family. The remaining crew manned the rescue boat and ferried the family, three at a time, back to the Reedham RV point. The family were met by a member of Gorleston Coastguard who were also on scene at the RV and monitoring the casualty vessel. The family once reunited arranged transport to Acle where they were to spend the remainder of the night.

Once all six members of the family were safely evacuated the crew on board the vessel secured it ready for recovery by the hire firm at high tide and were picked up by the rescue boat and stood down. Our thanks to Gorleston Coastguard for their assistance and the crew both on the boat and at the RV point for a well-executed operation. Hemsby Broads Rescue returned to base in the early hours and prepared the equipment for the next call. 

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Just now, Regulo said:

It's obvious to me that the boat was lifted by aliens, the crew subjected to analysis, and then dumped back half in the river. What's the problem?

See there you go again, pure speculation! :default_rofl: Whilst it cannot be ruled out there could be a more logical explanation. :default_jumelles:

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BrundallNavy

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2 hours ago, andyg said:

Looks like cover girl or money penny from NYA at Brundall. The tide going out has probably made that look worse then it is. That said how long did they wait till they called for help. Surely the lifeboat responded quite quickly. Hopefully everyone and the are OK. 

If it’s from NYA then it’s not a hire boat but a syndicate boat. There is a difference.  

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6 minutes ago, BrundallNavy said:

If it’s from NYA then it’s not a hire boat but a syndicate boat. There is a difference.  

No moneypenny and cover girl are both hire boats avaliable via hoseasons both from NYA Brundall...

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8 minutes ago, BrundallNavy said:

This has been covered on here before trust me they are not hire boats. 

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If you click on check availability, or hire, it takes you through to Hoseasons where you can indeed book them for the week.

 

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At the end of the day (yes I know night comes) as long as all on board are safe that is all that matters.      With the strength of the tide there the boat would be at an angle when it went down with the tide.     Flash boat or not , it would have been very scary.

 

 

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3 hours ago, BrundallNavy said:

This has been covered on here before trust me they are not hire boats. 

And nor was this one of NYA's boats..... It's a Broom.

To be clear, though, the 'charter' boats at NYA are not syndicate. The term 'charter' is just a marketing gimmick. They are hire boats.

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The bank in that area is clay mud with thick reeds on top.  When a boat drives into wet reeds they bend over in front and act like a greased slipway.  It is amazing how far a boat will go into  reeds, before it stops!

You then have the problem of launching it again. On one occasion we actually had to build a slipway out of old railway sleepers to put behind the boat and then pull it off with a couple of big tow boats.

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