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After surviving a milder night at Yarmouth on very tight warps during an exceptionally low tide, we enjoyed the following nice and sunny day and a nice lunch at the Arches Café and then took the girls to play a while in The Bosun's Playdeck on the pier and watched RNLI inshore lifeboat and the RAF rescue helicopter practice together offshore.
Then to cast off and cruise to the Stracey Arms to enjoy a fine tea of cockles and shrimps and then on back to Heronshaw to arrive in the dark using our steaming light. There to find good news about structural calculations for my new boat but poorer news of the RHDRA needing a new Chairman, apparently me!
Problems overnight as the exceptionally low tide found out the tightness of the mooring warps. I thought that I had given them enough give but they were jammed tight with the fender burst and the boat creaking when Diana woke me up to have a look. I attended to them and was soon back to bed thankful that the weather was much milder than of late. We were slow to get up this morning and then went shopping together, regretting that the library was not open this Easter Saturday. Then The Arches Cafe for a nice lunch before taking the girls to play a while in The Bosun's Playdeck on the pier. It was nice and sunny as Di and I sat on a bench and watched the RNLI inshore lifeboat and the RAF rescue helicopter practice together offshore.
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The cruise on a rainy day that was not too cold from Oulton Broad via the Waveney Inn to swim at the Nordic Centre and then back to Yarmouth under the Haven Bridge to moor at the Town Quay. Tea at the Pizza Hut, and then bowling afterwards before late to be aboard.
A much quieter night after all of the bad weather. It was still raining but at least the wind had died down and it was not quite so cold. The tidal rise and fall was quite large at about four feet as the north wind had been holding up the Broads levels again. A slow start this morning as I read a bit more of my book on Horning and then I let Di go shopping and the girls go to lay on the play equipment as I checked the engine oil levels and greased the shafts. After filling up with drinking water and diesel fuel, we decided to set off back and made it to the Waveney Inn for a bar snack lunch.
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Whilst we were staying at Oulton Broad, we shopped in Jeckells Chandlers and bought Di a new sleeping bag and some ropes so that the girls could practice their knots and then, after allowing the girls to play briefly on the play equipment in the Nicholas Everett Park, we took the bus into Lowestoft for lunch and some more shopping. Then back to the boat with some more charts
We stayed at Oulton Broad for a while this morning and then Di went shopping and I took a look at Jeckells Chandlers. We bought Di a new sleeping bag from that shop as she was complaining that her old one had lost its insulation qualities through constant washing. I also bought the girls a length of rope each so that they could learn all about tying knots. We had coffee together in a small place opposite the yacht station and then we found a little time and weather moderate enough to allow the girls to play briefly on the play equipment in the Nicholas Everett Park.
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After a very wet and stormy night and a chance to get a few things from the Brundall Riverside shop, we left Brundall in a full northerly gale to navigate with difficulty the two swing bridges at Reedham and Somerleyton to eventually arrive at Oulton Broad in mid-afternoon, having had lunch on the way.
With no films in in Lowestoft, we came back to the boat after tea at McDonalds to watch a video. The water rose strongly with the northerly wind and tide, near capsizing our tightly moored boat until I slackened the ropes. John Major completed the shuffling of his cabinet, and the contest began for leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party
A wet and windy night and stormy when we woke up to see what sort of day it was. The wind was tearing at the mast and aerial and it transpired that we had picked a good and sheltered mooring on what turned out to be the worst day we had ever spent on the Broads. A little time shopping in the riverside shop at Brundall and then we were ready to set off. The boat was very difficult to control with the canopy catching the strong wind and we saw waves actually breaking along the longer stretches of the Yare which funnelled the gale-force north winds. There were boats moored up on some of these reaches being bounced about by the waves with their crew quite worried about the whole experience.
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