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[Mondeoman]

Thanks Robin,ill have to sit down and try and get my head around all this VOB IFO FAB (whoops thats thunderbirds)and try and work it out.....Ps. I like all your blogs i have watched them many times.

[Mondeoman]

Question? At one point on my holiday video we are following another wooden cruiser i cant see her name but the number is T502 any idea of her name?

[deebee29]

http://www.broads.org.uk/wiki/index.php5?title=Boat_Details&BoatId=7068&BoatHistory=11679

try this

[Mondeoman]

Wow you were quick.im impressed thankyou for that

[deebee29]

You're welcome

Craig's site is a wealth of information

[Mondeoman]

I see I've just helped you hit 1000 posts . congratulations. I have a long way to go yet.

[deebee29]

Thanks, I hadn't realised I'd posted as much

the boat you asked about looks very similar to the first boat we ever hired back in the early 80s.... Although we had Broom Navigator 2

[SPEEDTRIPLE]

Hi Mondeoman,  Where abouts in Kent are you from?.  I originally hail from Kent, but heve been down here in Sunny Dorset for the last 10 years havin met my lovely wife down here through work. There`s also a fair number of forumites in Kent, and i did consider posting a suggestion that when i next go up to see family, would any other Kent forumites be interested in an "off Broads meet"?.

 

I`ve also noticed that this is the first time i`ve ever posted on a thread under two different screen names. I wonder if anybody else has ever done that?.

[Mondeoman]

I live in the sunny town of Paddock wood near Tonbridge.

[ExSurveyor]

Very near my other base at Yalding 

[Mondeoman]

Now theres  good place to own a boat with all that flooding.

[ExSurveyor]

Here is a screen shot of the Sky report of the flooding Christmas 2013.

My Calypso is on the bottom row,  to the left of the gap. .  The tops of the trees next to the boat are normally 15 feet above the river. 

Interesting few weeks  

[SPEEDTRIPLE]

13 hours ago, psychicsurveyor said:

Here is a screen shot of the Sky report of the flooding Christmas 2013.

My Calypso is on the bottom row,  to the left of the gap. .  The tops of the trees next to the boat are normally 15 feet above the river. 

Interesting few weeks  

Now that`s what i call a high tide.

I have a good friend who lives in Paddock wood, and i also have happy memories of visiting Paul Smart Motorcycles there in the early 90s road testing a couple of bikes.   I also did a couple of charity bike rides from the Hop farm nearby, to raise vital funds for the Kent Air Ambulance Trust. If i tried it now, it would more than likely kill me.

 

[JonC]

I live in Tonbridge, and canoe / kayak on the Medway. 2013 was definitely an interesting Christmas, several people I know in and around Tonbridge got flooded, and a narrow boat sunk near the town centre, it was the only time I have seen the water go over the lock gates at Tonbridge and be the same height on the downriver side. The new mobile homes at Yalding were up on their flotation, deffinately earnt its name Little Venice