Broad Ambition - Underway on the H2O

[Polly]

Can we see it on here please nicely?

[unclemike]

https://www.facebook.com/londonrascal/videos/10216837171551686/?t=17

[diesel falcon]

https://www.facebook.com/londonrascal/videos/10216837171551686/

[diesel falcon]

snap!!

 

[Londonlad1985]

Yes, looks great. I should have hung around at PH earlier it all looked ominously quiet this morning!

[Hylander]

All I get is log into Facebook.   Like that is going to happen.   Any chance we can see it without going to such lengths please?

[BroadAmbition]

Apparently if Robin puts it directly on here it uses a lot of them there byte thingy’s. It needs uploading to YouTube. So, as we are going back through PHB today I’ll get one of my lot to video the event then ask Robin to put the two together and upload them to YouTube, link posted on here and Robert is your Dads brother. 

This morning - paid the water Balliff for our overnight mooring fees (£5) then asked him about the possibility of taking ‘B.A’ up to head of navigation at Waxham Cut. His reply was - it’s ‘maintained’ by the Broads Authority. So it’s very shallow and weedy and have you got all day?  Catch 22 river levels are low hence us being here, = shallow water in the cut and I really do need to be at PHB for a 1200 Bridge shoot 

Griff

[Polly]

Were the fire crews still working there?

[BroadAmbition]

Where? Not seen any fire crews

Griff

[Polly]

No weather has changed. When we had Zoe out, the week of RT launch they were out in force at Horsey, two tenders and a tent in the NT Car park, and in and out of Waxham Cut in ribs. They were about for some days.

[BroadAmbition]

Never saw em. 

Alongside at PHB green. Airdraft 6ft7” available. Bridge preps. Shooting in 15 mins

Griff

[BroadAmbition]

H.W’s Tranqil Light just come through. You don’t see that very often!

Griff

[Hylander]

Good to see folk making the most of this Summer weather.     Bet the Pilots office has never been so busy since the 70s.

[Hylander]

Just seen you all come back through.

 

[BuffaloBill]

That looked easy enough 

 

[BroadAmbition]

A breeze

Now stern on at Ranworth Staithe. Yet another DTS  proper hot but thank goodness we have a breeze 

Griff

 

[johnb]

We normally moor at Waxham cut but at present at Gayes Staithe (Lord Paul and members on Magellan also here and I think some other members left as we arrived. Bit worrying about fires in Waxham cut fields. The depth isn't too bad, the width (just reeds that push to the sides) is a bit narrow e just before the mill. We take a leisurely cruise up and down and it takes about 20 mins. Each way. Sometimes have to reverse to clear weeds but only once last time. Can be a bit shallow at the entrance to the dyke but we need more people to use it!!

[YnysMon]

In reply to Polly's comment about the fire service being at Horsey some weeks back.  When we walked along the path that goes along Waxham Cut a couple of days ago it looked like some controlled burning had been going on between the path and the fields along a good stretch of the cut.  The trees (mostly silver birches) that border the path had been burnt back, cut and the remains collected in little piles along a section stretching about 200 yards, but the trees and undergrowth on the other side of the path were untouched, which I why I assumed it was a controlled burn.

Helen

[Polly]

I don’t think it started that way.

[YnysMon]

Oh dear!  It appeared to have been contained well anyway!

[BroadAmbition]

Through Wroxham Bridge onto the 24 Hr moorings yesterday  fishing evening and this morning with fair results  Coltishall bound today

Griff

 

[BroadAmbition]

Treated oursens to a b’fast At he Mill - well it is Sunday. Underway. River is gin clear. Big shoals of fish, blazing sunshine. Everything down and open.  This is just as it should be and I’m not having to helm either 

Griff

[BroadAmbition]

At Coltishall. Just what is it with the inundation of damn Jaspers this year?  Ranworth was really bad. Wroxham plenty as is the same here. I’m spending as much time holding a swatter as I am a rod or beer glass

Griff

[BrundallNavy]

Cut the top off a plastic bottle then push the top back in the bottle neck side down the fill about an inch of orange Fanta. Works a treat.

[Cal]

Cheap jar of jam with a couple of holes in the top works a treat as a wasp trap.

How did you get on with the weed heading up to Coltishall?

We struggled terribly. Would have been better with a ride on lawn mower!