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Jul-31-2010 @ 10:14 PM
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A quick glance through the B.C.U handbook (an excellent publication a bit like Hamilton's but covers the UK ) reveals river miles free from motorised craft outnumber river miles navigable by motorised craft by about ten to one.
Boaters on the Broards should be campaining a lot harder for restoration of the locks and navigations that are closed to us.
If the restorations in the rest of the country were mirrored here we would have a system half as big again
Many Thanks Tim
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Aug-01-2010 @ 12:02 PM
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Hi Tim - think your maths may be a bit out!!! So
Geldeston to Bungay, Coltishall to Aylsham and Wayford to
North Walsham adds up to 50 miles!! Not quite! 
I think also their would be a lot of local opposition and
particularly in the latter case not enough water coming
down to warrant it.
Still these have all been well aired before and you will
see its not entirely straightforward as you seem to
suggest!!
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Aug-03-2010 @ 6:24 PM
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Hi Karen,
quote:"......
Actually, I think this is the one: http://www.the-norfolk-broads.co.uk/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=47&Topic=18252
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Hey! Trying to get me into trouble again? I got enough stick for posting all those photographs, last time!
Unfortunately, Zena, the old (15 years) English Setter referred to in the thread had to be put to sleep a fortnight ago.
Greg Chapman
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Aug-03-2010 @ 7:00 PM
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"in trouble" ??? - that would be you and me both then! I'm always in trouble
Very sorry to hear about your dog Zena. Our pets are such great companions aren't they? She'll be chasing rabbits and geese forever now.
All the best, Karen
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Aug-03-2010 @ 7:01 PM
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Coltishall Lock?
You're nowt but a bunch of sissies. 
The water is deeper up there than in most of Heigham Sound.
Here we are, stopped for refreshment at the Norfolk Mead Hotel, somewhere between the river fork and the lock.
The mast? Ah well, as you asked I'll tell you. Ahem. While parked we thought it might be as well to pick the few oak leaves out of the rigging.
And the rest of the tree...
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Aug-03-2010 @ 7:43 PM
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Yep SS but you only went to the Norfolk Mead - it is
definately shallower after the fork and I am not sure it
is worth encouraging a hire cruiser to go up there
especially with current river levels!!!!
However its his decision and should he block his intake
and "fry" his engine just because he is unaware of the
filter, its his deposit too
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Aug-03-2010 @ 7:49 PM
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With regards to navigation limits for hire craft there used to be limit for hire craft sign opposite the Rising Sun at Coltishall. It was there until about 2000 or 2001.
Is there still a defined (if unsigned) limit for hire craft on the upper Bure?
Mal
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Aug-03-2010 @ 7:55 PM
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Indeed MM - that was the point I was trying to make much earlier in this thread - we shouldn't say for sure that it will be all fine and dandy up there. I've seen that rather stoney bottom pretty often!
So, we are not being party poopers are we?
Karen
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Aug-03-2010 @ 8:10 PM
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We often went up to the lock (taking the right fork) often in Royal Ambassador. never had a depth problem. I don't recollect there being an "end of navigation" sign at the Rising Sun, just a "shallow water" sign on the left fork. I'm absolutely certain that had there been an end of navigation sign, wild horses woul not have been able to get my mother to agree to go passed it
Honesty and Integrity ... When you can fake those, you've cracked it.
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Aug-03-2010 @ 8:22 PM
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M_M - there WAS a sign just after the Rising Sun I am certain (I am very obedient when there are any possible financial hits on the pocket!) but we haven't hired since 2005 so I stopped looking then!
There is still a shallow water sign(s) at the fork and, I recall a sign advising that's the last place to turn, or something similar. That bit of my memory is vague, because at 23' we don't really have to worry much about things like that
Karen
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