oulton broads pontoon

[loribear]

hi all, i was watching the races at oulton today & noticed some extra pontoon sticking out, does anybody know what thats all about ? is it to keep the speedboats away from all the other boats or it for when the yacht station gets busy ? lori  

[Hockham Admiral]

Have you got a pic, Lori?

[Hylander]

If you look at the Norfolk Live Web cam it is showing the pontoon very clearly.   I have look to post a pic of this to help but I cannot see how you attach a photo now.

[ranworthbreeze]

As you say the pontoon is sticking well into the Broad.

 

Regards

Alan

[Guest]

The webcam view of Lori's Pontoon,  (I think)  

 

[Hylander]

Come on then how did you do it please.     It used to be quite straight forward.   Thank you.

 

M

[Guest]

Come on then how did you do it please.     It used to be quite straight forward.   Thank you.

 

M

 

 

It's not a straightforward answer I'm afraid.

 

I now upload my images to the web independently from this forum, and then link to them as an "HTTP" address.

[Hylander]

Oh dear well beyond me I am afraid so I will just enjoy other folks snaps.

 

M

[Hylander]

Thank you so much I will have a look see.

 

M

[Hylander]

What like this.

 

 

[Hylander]

Well that didnt work.

[Hylander]

That did - thank you.      

[Guest]

I didn't explain (or use) the simple method, because I thought there had been a request on here for people to not upload image files to the forum itself, to save storage space.

 

My reply must have looked rather unhelpful, and unnecessarily complicated.

 

I'm sorry, I didn't intend to make it look more complex than it could be.    

[mbird]

You are right Strowy, that we would prefer people to use external image hosting in order to keep disk usage down, which is why I put the "how to" post about uploading with Photobucket in the pictures section of the forum. If people are unable or unwilling to do it that way though, of course they are still welcome to use the normal upload method within the forum.

[mbird]

With regard the OP, I think those pontoons are floating ones that get towed out for various events. I've seen them used at things like the dragon boat racing. They are gone today so I assume you are right Lori, and they were for safety reasons.

[loribear]

Hi mbird , ive also noticed yhat they've gone today , it must have been to keep the speedboats away from the private ones, as they did get abit too close for comfort, lori

[Matt]

Not at all, it was very handy - You're quite right that it's preferred if people link to external pictures, but as Mark says we do understand that some aren't too sure how to do that and we don't want people to feel that they can't post pictures.

We have to strike a balance between making the forum great for people to use, while keeping a handle on our running costs.

Sorry to keep the thread drifting but I have uploaded some photos today vis Tapatalk. Should I be using the option of Tapatalk hosting them rather than the forum option?

Ta

[Happy Jax 3]

The pontoons are brought or for the international power boat championship races, they use it for standing starts.

[ranworthbreeze]

Hello John,

Just using your last post to check out the smilies.

I am using XP and internet explorer 8.

Still no smilies I will retest using Chrome.

Regards

Alan

[ranworthbreeze]

Hello John,

 

It appears to be fine on Google Chrome.    

 

Regards

Alan

[littlesprite]

   

 

Using windows 8 and IE the smillies work fine.