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Sunday June 27

Breakfast
Lunch - Rolls
Dinner – BBQ Pork & Chicken – Scampi Appetizers

We left Brundall early so that we could catch the tide at Yarmouth. We were looking forward to a good sail but sadly there was no wind so we had to motor all the way through to Yarmouth, and it wasn’t until after the bridge at Acle that we could put the sails up. We had a lovely sail all of the way up to Potter Heigham with great winds assisted by the black cloud that was still following us around.

We found a perfect mooring spot not far from the old bridge. It was getting a bit late but we went over to the bridge to see if we could get a view of morons trying to go through the bridge at high speed without the aid of a pilot. Strangely enough it was the family that requested we go to the pub, as it was still very warm. We didn’t see any disasters, but did notice that the cloud was getting bigger and darker, so we set off back to the boat, and almost made it before the heavens opened. We got the awning up in record time and watched a great show of thunder and lightening.

When you are planning meals on the boat it is important to always have a backup plan. I had planned on doing a BBQ as I had some rather nice pork chops sitting in brine. From my years of weather observation when sailing I could see that the squall would pass quickly and that the night would now be clear, which it did and I set out the BBQ on the bank. I was just getting the charcoal out of the locker when I noticed small raindrops on the water. A quick glance to the north saw a massive storm cell coming through. So we sat under the awning again, eating appetizers waiting for it to pass. When it did the BBQ was full of water, as was my bunk, because I had forgotten to close the bloody porthole.

We managed to have our BBQ in the end, and it was worth the wait. After the coals had cooled down I decided to clean out the BBQ before putting it away. I did this by shacking out the ash into the river. As I mentioned earlier I had put this together with a Swiss army knife. Of course all of the nuts and bolts had loosened, so I not only shook out the ash, but also the side members of the BBQ, which sank to the bottom of the river with a mocking gurgle.

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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