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Friday June 25

Breakfast
Lunch – Rolls
Dinner – Roast Pork

We woke to blue skies and sun. The storm had blown itself out at last. Maybe we would at last get a chance to sail at last.

At Beccles, Bonnie had noticed that they had showers at the Yacht Station. Now our boat did have a shower in the toilet compartment, but so far only the girls had used it. Chris and I being salty sea dogs shunned the idea of trying to get clean while sitting on a chemical toilet, but after four days without a shower the female members of the crew decided that enough was enough and that the smell in the boat was getting beyond the point of just having the toilet pumped out. So at Beccles Chris and I got cleaned up, after yet another trip to the supermarket, but the cost of the shower was well worth it.

The wind was now at just the right level for sail training. While hosting the mainsail one thought kept going through my mind. There’s a lot of bloody canvas here!, after a quick safety drill with the crew we set off. The boat was marvelous. Probably one of the best I have ever sailed, and we spent the whole day sailing up to Reedham.

On the way we had to go through the swing bridge at Somerlyton, and yet again we had to wait along time for the operator to open the damn bridge. While I’m sailing up and down the river doing figure eights, which was great practice for the crew another cruiser lined up to go through. It was the same boat that had waited with us at the same bridge only two days before! At last the bridge opened and we sailed through.

There is another swing bridge at Reedham, but the operator of this bridge opened as soon as he saw us. Moorings at Reedham are a bit hard to come by and as we motored past things were looking grim for staying the night. Then I noticed a space, right in front of the harbour masters office, with a bloody great green pole sticking out of the quay. I assumed that this must be a reserved mooring for some purpose, but the harbour master indicated that it was OK to moor there, right in front of the Lord Nelson – how handy.

It turns out that the Green pole was there to protect the Electric charging point, which had been destroyed by someone using it as a mooring post. These electric charging points are turning up all over the Broads as boats get “greener”. This must be a good thing as the sight and smell of diesel is enough to put any one off one’s dinner. On the other hand I can see a time when there are too many electric boats and not enough charging points. Maybe there will be a business opportunity for someone doing – “on the river recharging”.

Comments

From - LizzieT Posted On 10 Oct 2004

My dad (Richard T) is a really good chef even though he almost set fire to our kicthen when he was trying to mke yorkshore pudding.

From - roy abrahams Posted On 20 Aug 2004

hallo out there just a quick comment i moved to norfolk in 1969 just to be near the broads and my wife and i will be having our 52nd holiday on the broads this xmas our 4th xmas on a boat its just brill its just a shame to see so many boat yards closing many of them old friends over the years if you have took the time to read this thank you and keep on boating

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