New Boat
 

Big day tomorrow.

Taking our prospective new boat out on a river/sea trial and then having the marine survey done.

Hopefully all will be good and then its just the small matter of exchanging contracts and the moving of our old boat (going in PX) and bringing the new one back to Acle Marina.
No small task as it's about a six to seven hour trip each way and due to the low bridges at Great Yarmouth we will have to time the tides to allow for both boats air daft :D

Any piccies?

Yup.....

Coming up in a few minutes:}

Cap'n Jeff's new boat!

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Good luck and watch those bridges, just watching some boat accidents on utube a few minutes ago. Bridges are not very forgiving :eek:
Was also looking at some of those super yachts, how the other half live or should I say how the 2% live.

She is a Skilso 975, 32ft twin Volvo Penta, 6 berth Norwegian Motor cruiser.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1848/...86e11e82_b.jpgLady Emma by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr

I'll post more up shortly but I'm actually on our present boat at the moment and the internet is rather slow:duh:

They can quickly turn your boat into a convertible :eek::D

At high water in Yarmouth there is only around 7'6" clearance and the Air Draft on the new boat is around 11'.

At low water slack there can be up to 13' at the bridges. It's quite a big tidal range there ;)

I'd be able to store plenty of provisions on board that now:drool4::D

A few more:}

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That looks good Jeff. Have to admit I've never really been into boats, prefer ones large enough to have their own restaurant.

You can tell he's a Rover forum member. Wood all over the place...

Well this one will no doubt be spending a lot of time moored outside various food establishments :drool4::D

Ha Ha :D:D

Have you booked a berth in Monaco for the grand prix?

That boat will be smaller than most of the tenders serving the mega yachts :eek:

Wooden wheel :drool4:

Not gone green like my old black oak one either :D:D:D

Plenty of wood in the heads as well;)

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Looks nice Jeff, is it much bigger than the out going boat?

Evening Mark.

She is five ft longer, one ft wider in the beam and about two ft taller air draft.

The main difference though is that she is a RCD category B vessel so good for proper sea crossings.

Category B - Offshore: Designed for offshore voyages where conditions up to, and including, wind force 8 and significant wave heights up to, and including, 4m may be experienced.

Two big Volvo Penta diesel lumps and a 560 litre fuel tank help:D

Beautiful. It's a real stunner !!:bowdown::bowdown:

Had a good day on the river trial despite the windy conditions trying to spoil things.

Had a slight hiccup when we first went out with the starboard engine overheat warning coming on.
Quick trip back to the marina on one engine and a new impeller later and all back in business.

A couple of iPhone videos ( click on picture to open video on Flickr) I took of the speed runs just checking that all is well.

We hit 24 knots max and cruising speed of around 17 knots and she handled like a dream, all be it that we were on a calm river.

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This video is of the boat being lifted ready for the boat surveyor to check the hull, skin fittings, props etc:}

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Hopefully we will get the results of the marine survey back in the next couple of days and then if all is well we shall be the new owners of Lady Emma.

I was just wondering how today went, all well it seems. Can you get one of those "exempt speed limit" signs for the road?

She sure looks a stunner Jeff, like the name too. That would suit my friend Jeffrey in Malta, his daughter is Emma although I’m not sure he would like the 560 litre fill ups, he prefers to use the wind for most of his trips :}

Would be useful wouldn't they :D:D:D:D

All went well Steve, she handles like a dream and if I had of shut the rear sliding door and the sunroofs she is very quite even at a good turn of knots.
Even the breakdown proved the benefit of having twin engines.....Otherwise it would have been a tow back to the marina :eek:

Just a waiting game now to get the survey back and then hopefully to proceed with the purchase:}

Well I'm usually full of wind, not sure how to transfer it to the fuel tanks though:eek::D;):getmecoat:

To be honest, most of the time she will be running at around 6 knots on the rivers and that will be barely over engine idle so the fuel should last a long time.
It's only on those little trips out on to the salty stuff where she will develop a first for the derv:eek:

Thankfully diesel sold in the UK to the marine market is the red stuff so is cheaper than what we buy for the cars.
It averages around £1.00 litre.
So only about £560 to fill her up:eek::duh::D

Could find yourself banned from the marina for trying.

I'll have you know my methane production could be of great benefit to the marine industry :D:D:D

Very envious Jeff:cool: would love to have one similar & take it around the Scottish Lochs:drool4::bowdown: You'll need to get in touch with Simon for some chrome trim around the clocks:cool::D

Cheers Ronnie,

Perhaps as my sea going experience improves I may well bring the boat up North in the future ;)

WoW! That looks like a Miami vice jobby Jeff, Very Nice indeed. :cool:

I wondered why some peeps call me Tubbs:D:D:D

Hi Jeff.
Who has to pay for the lift out?

and you could be called Thunder Pants.:D:duh:

Morning Julien,

We have to pay for the survey and the boat to be lifted for inspection.

It costs about £600 but is certainly worth it.
If anything is found then negotiations can be struck to have the work carried out within the offer price, or if serious enough even to walk away with our deposit refunded.

Looking good Jeff will have to come for a trip

Will be good as always to have you on board Freddie :}

Who plays the part of Roger the cabin boy?

Well......if you play your cards right Steve:D;):getmecoat:

Oh Matron :oh you:

Who said anything about Rodgering the cabin boy:eek::D
Rev

He's going in the barrel :eek:

A little update.

Hopefully will be taking ownership of Lady Emma and bringing her back to Acle on Saturday 13th :}

We will be making an early start Friday morning at around 06.00hrs to take Riverlight through Great Yarmouth at low water slack. This is to get under the low bridges before crossing Breydon Water.
The whole trip from Acle to Brundall should take around six hours.
It is about ten minutes in a car:eek::D

We will be staying in Brundall overnight on our new boat and then bringing her back first light to Acle. The return trip will be a little quicker as there is no speed limit on Breydon and the new boat should be able to make the crossing a little quicker ;)

Hopefully will be nice weather and I'll take some photos and videos and post them up on here.

I regularly use those bridges and see children walking along the edges of the hire boats with no lifejackets on and in flip flops! :eek: That stretch of water at Yarmouth scares the doodah out of me! :shrug:Take care and have a good journey. If you see a zircon silver V6 on your way, give me a wave.;)
Mike

I think peeps have no concept of just how fast water can flow as it is funnelled in and out of the Bure into the North Sea.
I’m taking precautions to arrive at slack water in the boat to avoid fighting the tide. I wouldn’t want to imagine fighting the tide there if I were in the water :o

I’ll be sure to give you a hoot if I see you:}

Hi All,

Sorry for the late update on this thread.
Had a rather busy but fun filled weekend picking the new boat up and
yesterday had my Mum's wedding to attend so didn't get a chance to update the thread:}

We left Clacton at around 04.00am to get to our old boat at its mooring at Acle for around 06.00am on the Friday morning.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1945/...b601cf1d_b.jpgCC9J3362 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr

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I went out in shorts and a T shirt and it was a bit nippy, the only other clothing I had left on board our old boat was my dressing gown:D

All went pretty well in fairly challenging conditions. Had gusts of up to 40mph which made mooring a bit tricky so I was glad I didn't do it single helmed.

We made pretty good time, so much so that we managed to do the return trip on the same day on the second low water tide.

We stopped off on the return trip to drop of my crew mate Chris and pick up my new crew mate for the rest of the weekend...My Dad, Little Deeps on here.

In between changing crew mates, had a couple of stow aways attempt to board us:D


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I think the Welcome Aboard stuff gave them false hope......:D

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We had set out at about 06.30hrs in the morning in our old boat and we moored up around 18.30 outside the Stokesby Inn Pub for the night in the new tub.


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We were only about another 45 minutes sailing away from our Marina at that point but because we had de masted the navigation lights to enable safe passage under Great Yarmouth Bridges we couldn't continue any further. Besides, I didn't want to try and do any close quarter manoeuvring in the Marina with a boat I'm unfamiliar with and weather that was at best....challenging

Anyhow, we were much in need of a pint and grub at that point so the pub was a good call.

I was Knackered.....


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We got up early doors on Saturday(not much sleep due to water slap and wind noise) and had a lovely breakfast in the village of Stokesby then put the Nav lights back on and headed off to the Marina.


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Somehow, not quite sure how.....We ended up back at Acle, not at our Marina but at the Acle Bridge Inn pub where we spent the day and night. We met up with Trikey and Debs, Lotus LC and his daughter and Rogue from this forum for dinner in the Acle Bridge Inn that evening. Was a great evening with great company and great grub in my favourite Broads Pub:}


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Weather had calmed down by Saturday evening and we had a peaceful nights sleep on board.

Sunday morning we slipped the pubs mooring around 08.00am and brought Lady Emma back to Acle Marina to her new home.
The Bridge Inn pub to Acle Marina is a boat cruising time of around 5 minutes so wasn't the longest of cruises:D


https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1920/...a25db558_b.jpgF15E0F1C-24CE-44A2-A6FB-4D3AE26E3C53 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr

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I'm up to the boat this afternoon after work as we are having the BSS examiner down to hopefully issue us with a BSS certificate which is a four yearly requirement for vessels used on the UK's inland waterways.

You lucky NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD- :drool4:

Lovely boat,
Lovely weather,
Lovely Guinness :drool4:
Lovely food.
Then you top it off with good friends.

Am I envious ! Well just a teensy weensy bit.
My caravans’ been “tied up” on the driveway for two months and we can’t seem to get time to go away to enjoy it.

Forgot to add,

Lovely photos

Really looking forward to next spring / summer for a trip on the broads, always wanted to do this and it now looks like we will :bowdown:

Time to get that caravan out for an adventure then Jim :}

Will look forward to having you on board for a trip out on the water Gary:}

I’m sure a pub will be involved in the day out at some point as well:drool4:

Hi Jeff

Just picked up on this thread and am really jealous!

It must have been one hell of a day when you picked up your new boat. I see from the clip that you purchased from NYA which brought back great memories for me as we kept our boat there for 12 years until selling in 2016. It looks like Mark who took you out for your test run - he is a great guy.

Your new boat looks really well and I'm sure you will have some fabulous times on board.

I have to content myself now with hiring - our last visit being early October and we have a booking now for next May.

Best wishes

Howard

Hi Howard,

That was indeed Mark (a.k.a Speedo) doing the river trial with us. The other gentleman is Howard Webb of Webb boats who was doing our survey:}

Was it at NYA Brundall or Horning where you kept your boat?
If you don't mind me asking, what boat did you have?

I'm up at our boat every week as I work two days a week in and around Norwich and Great Yarmouth. That was one of the reasons we decided on a bigger boat as I stay on board whilst up there.

It makes a big difference having a separate cabin for sleeping. No more converting the V into a bed from a sofa!

Anyhow, if you are on the Broads in May give us a shout on here and I'm sure we can have a get together along with some of the other Norfolk Massive;)

Here is Lady Emma this week sporting her new Broads Registration plate.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1928/...c4323f5b_b.jpgCC9J5104 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr

Hello Jeff

Our boat was called Tiger Lily and is a Broom Skipper. We kept her at Brundall in the dyke that leads to the NYA workshop. It is a great place to moor, water and electricity laid on and parking for the car right behind the boat. Mark helped us quiite a lot and we had a lot of work done by his team including bow thruster and holding tank. If you ever consider moving to the south side it would be a good choice. The new owner of Tiger Lily now keeps her in the Ferry Marina at Horning.

Will you be thinking about joining James Fraser on one of the cruise in company excusions that he arranges? I think it is an excellent way to get a feel for sea cruising as all the planning and safety issues are sorted for you. Mark also travels on these to sort any mechanical problems that may arise. Have also recently seen that he is selling his own boat (In Focus).

By the way you mentioned Howard Webb from Webb marine. I have not come across this name/company before and strangely my name is also Howard Webb.

All the best, Howard

Hi Howard,

Are you a member of the Norfolk Broads Network btw?
If you are I'm on there with my Coolcat username.

Such a shame that Broom have ceased manufacturing boats and now just concentrating on hiring.
Have you any images of your Broom Skipper?
If so would love to see some posted up on the forum.

My dream boat would be an Aft Cockpit Broom:}

We will probably will stay on the Northern Broads for the moment. The prices are quite a lot cheaper where we are at Acle (also being able to park right next to our mooring with electric and water as well) compared to Brundall and we have a few friends who are at Acle:}
However, we were at Oby before Acle so you never know, change of scenery and all that. Also planning on moving permanently to Norfolk in the near future so depending on where we end up may mean the boat moving.

I spoke to Matt Sampson and will indeed be doing some of the 'Cruise in Company' Sea trips next year and very much looking forward to it.
I'm going to also take the Day Skipper RYA as well.

This is Howard Webb's (the other one:D) website.

https://webb-boats.co.uk

All the best,

Jeff.

Hi Jeff

I think that what you are doing is the right way to go forward and you will get an awful lot out of having a sea capable boat.

I have tried and failed to upload photos of Tiger Lily - do you use a hosting company to post yours?

regards

Howard

Hi Howard,

I use Flickr for image hosting:}

Thanks, I need to look at that but will try here with a simple attachment for now.

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She looks lovely indeed.....Bet you miss her.

Took the liberty of popping her on my Flickr to enlarge the image for you:}

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Did you take her out to sea with the CIC trips?

Must come and see the boat Jeff when you up next.?

I'll be up tomorrow Freddie.......Bring a Sau'wester and Pac a Mac with you if you fancy popping by:D:D:D

Cant stay for supper ,
Could be a flying visit in the afternoon.

Should be at the boat for around 15.00hrs Freddie:}

Are you just further along the dyke.

Same side but further down towards the River opposite that half sunken rowing boat ;)

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4882/...51135825_b.jpgCC9J5101.jpg by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr

Thanks for the pic, Jeff, we were entirely river based - my partner would not contemplate going to sea and in any event, Tiger Lily is single engined with a lowly Perkins 4/108.

I am not on NBN but do follow Norfolk Broads .co.uk and go by the name of Yorkie.

I will keep an eye on your exploits here and maybe look into NBN if you post regularly on there.

Howard

Jeff I don’t know if you’ve ever seen this series of videos on YouTube but it’s a very fascinating view.
It’s titled Acorn to Arabella and tells the story of a group of guys building their own boat from scratch. They even show you cutting down the tree they used as part of the build.
They also purchased a wreck (Victoria) to use as salvage, particularly all the bronze fittings to use on Arabella.

I'm between here and there most nights.....with the odd excursion into Facebook land:D

My partner Ros (Night Owl on here) is the same so I will be needing crew for my trips on the salty stuff;):D

I'll certainly check it out Jim.

My main YouTube boating watch is keeping up with 'The Captain's Blog'. Robin and his videos were one of the reasons that made Ros and I decide to purchase our first boat:}

Also had loads of good advice from various boat members on here as well when we first went dipping our toes.
Thanks Weso and Astraeus amongst others:bowdown:

I beg your pardon! Oh . . . . that kind of dyke.

Pervert!!!:D:D:D

It's with great sadness to inform anyone who hasn't seen that Freddie, who was due to meet me today at the boat, has passed away suddenly from a heart attack.

Freddie had been out with us many times on our previous boats and helped massively doing the service/belt change on our last boat.

Had many a great evening at the Bridge Inn with him and our friends and to say we are going to miss him would be an understatement.

RIP and God Speed to one of the forums true Gentleman.

https://the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/s...d.php?t=289882

Freddie and Zed the Ted on board our first boat.

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Well said... I find it difficult to find better words.

So sorry to hear the sad news of a good friend.

The view out the back of the boat this morning.

Only an iPhone snap.
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That picture just sums up the mood since Freddie's passing.