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Old 20th September 2018, 14:26   #41
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Old 20th September 2018, 20:08   #42
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Old 3rd October 2018, 21:50   #43
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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

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.
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Old 4th October 2018, 19:21   #44
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I regularly use those bridges and see children walking along the edges of the hire boats with no lifejackets on and in flip flops! That stretch of water at Yarmouth scares the doodah out of me! Take care and have a good journey. If you see a zircon silver V6 on your way, give me a wave.
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Old 4th October 2018, 19:59   #45
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I regularly use those bridges and see children walking along the edges of the hire boats with no lifejackets on and in flip flops! That stretch of water at Yarmouth scares the doodah out of me! Take care and have a good journey. If you see a zircon silver V6 on your way, give me a wave.
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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

I’ll be sure to give you a hoot if I see you
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Old 16th October 2018, 06:52   #46
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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.

CC9J3362 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr

56101886218__007B10C8-34A2-478C-ABAC-45934413F02A 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

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


56101886218__007B10C8-34A2-478C-ABAC-45934413F02A by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr


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

F15E0F1C-24CE-44A2-A6FB-4D3AE26E3C53 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr


F15E0F1C-24CE-44A2-A6FB-4D3AE26E3C53 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr


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.


IMG_2812 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr

IMG_2812 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr


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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Untitled by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr


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.


F15E0F1C-24CE-44A2-A6FB-4D3AE26E3C53 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr

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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


F15E0F1C-24CE-44A2-A6FB-4D3AE26E3C53 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr

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F15E0F1C-24CE-44A2-A6FB-4D3AE26E3C53 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr


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.
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Old 16th October 2018, 18:35   #47
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You lucky NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-

Lovely boat,
Lovely weather,
Lovely Guinness
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

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Old 17th October 2018, 17:10   #48
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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
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Old 17th October 2018, 18:36   #49
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You lucky NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-

Lovely boat,
Lovely weather,
Lovely Guinness
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
Time to get that caravan out for an adventure then Jim
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Old 17th October 2018, 18:39   #50
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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
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
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