Trev and Bob,s boating blog in pictures

[diesel falcon]

And there,s more.....if you can keep awake!

we spent the afternoon (mon) on womack straith, waiting for Quo Vadis and restocking Le Grand Cru,with beer wine and vettles,and even got Bob some of his favorite tipple NBA!, B ob made good time and was soon with us,after some very scary thunderstorms.here,s a view of the river past the womac water....

 

 

 

After a couple beers we walked up to the Kings Head and had a loverly meal, the place has never dissappointed..mmmm,then back to the boats..Bob was a bit jet lagged ...so his lights went out early! 

[quo vadis]

Meals as ever excellent at Ludham I had Skate in black butter, Trev and Sue had plaice stuffed with Crayfish tails,

[diesel falcon]

uhhh iam not eating that it,s burnt!!

Tuesday dawned on Womack straith, it was a far better day than monday, after a cuppa or two and some breakfast it was time to steam to our next destination and much needed electric for the boats(hungrey fridges and ebers), and so it was on to RAMworth     .A pleasant journey down the thurne and turn right along the bure,

We moored up in a stiff breeze but no issues this time,we got settled on our moorings and it was a typical Ranworth day with plenty of coming and goings ,and disappointed helms who couln,t get a place.

The dogs name on the boat moored next door was Jenny......a name now forever stuck in the history of our boating on the broads, he must have told it off 1000 times!!!(well not really but it felt like it), all was ok when he finally put it on his boat.

We ordered a chinnese from the delivery service and very nice too, a few beers to wash down and then over to the Malters.

Late in the evening about 5 sailing boats from Ludon arrived and squeezed themselves in,loverly end to the day....

 

 

 

That,s another day done!!

[diesel falcon]

Wensday dawned  on Ranworth straithe, and the temperature soon warmed up,passage planning was done after breakfast,already we were considering our options to pass from the the North to the south as low water was moving later and later in the afternoon, we wanted to spend a few days down south so we planned to do the run down thrus afternoon,,

We left Ranworth and proceeded to our next overnight ,we were armed with plenty of sausages,burgers beer ect....guess what,s coming next....yup a barby!! but where??.......

 

 

That will do nicely....

[quo vadis]

From another angle

[andyhesford]

that looks like a lovely quiet spot but I haven't got a clue where that is, give us clue.

[diesel falcon]

It was a wonderful day,good beer and food, you couldn,t of wished for a better day.....This won t work that well but prod the picture and turn your sound up.....all will be clear

[andyhesford]

ah fooled me because you moored stern on.

[diesel falcon]

More tomorrow (bet you can,t wait!)  includes "in hot pursuit" and a lost hireboat!

[Guest]

Got to be womack island.

[diesel falcon]

Yes Womack island, we stern moored to get the boats in as there was a couple of boats already there.

We woke on thursday morning to a really sunny start, with a backdrop of woodland birds and a cuckoo,very idilic, all too soon it was time to slip the mooring ropes and proceed to our next stop for milk  Stoksby ferry, we cruised down to the pub on one engine as there was a strong tide weather was great.

after mooring up to wait for the tide/bridge clearance there was quiet alot of river traffic, one large cruiser got my attention because there were four men on the bow/cabin roof shouting and messing around,this made the cruiser (which was flat out)make a sizable wash the helm didn,t even slow down for a patrol going the other way!!! oh dear        

 

When it was time we set off towards the bridges and passed under with 11.5 ft clearance, then we were really getting beaten up by the tide,ther were a couple of hire boats infront , one moved over to let me pass.....straight out of the channel!! didn,t know i could still shout that loud, but he heard me and corrected his coarse...phew.Bob got itchy feet and opened up, and left us in his wake!!.

All was ok the rest of the way over........

[diesel falcon]

Until we came to the confluence of the Yare/Waveny, where this boater had got lost!

 

 

The boat floated off later on the incoming tide.

We moored up at the berney arms, where we were joined by the nya cruising club who were using the berney as a mustering point for a cruise to S outhwold in the morning.we had a nice meal in the Berney dispite it bieng full.

 

 

We headed north on the Yare and spent a few more days on the southern broads ,before  returning to our berth on the sunday.

 

 

HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS INSTALMENT THAT,S ALL FOR NOW    

[Hylander]

I can see where you describe Windsor Bridge coming to grief but cannot place the actually part of the river.    Can you say where it was.

[quo vadis]

Hylander directly opposite the mouth of the Yare on the mud the opposite side of Breydon water

[Matt]

So they came past the Berney Arms and went straight over?!

Nobody stuck there today!

[Hylander]

But I thought that this was clearly marked by channel markers and all manner of signs etc.       There is no evidence of any signs on their patch of mud.       

[diesel falcon]

Hi, they were heading for goodchilds or misjudged the turn here,s a wider view.....

 

 

the pier thingy jig is to the right!

[Hylander]

Thank you I now know.   Sorry I am bit slow this morning,  hubby seemed to get the idea of where they were.    It was a bit unfortunate for them.

[quo vadis]

Nothing happening this weekend?

[diesel falcon]

nope had to make do with this view from Weatherspoons!!

 

[quo vadis]

Only 1 more sleep Trev

[diesel falcon]

Now live at the weedy hotel!! On webcam

[diesel falcon]

Wherry!!!

[quo vadis]

Ah Ha

[Gracie]

Noticed you're still at the Wherry this morning, nursing hang overs are we?  have a good trip and please post some photos up

 

Grace