How to & How not to pass Wroxham bridge (see description)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Bank Holiday Monday 5th May 2014
The first two large boats, Fair Majesty is one, pass beautifully under Wroxham bridge, the third large one @0:49 Tropical Gem makes a big old mess and has to back out of it!
If in doubt please use the pilots available. - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Guys, some of these bridges on the broads are hundreds of years old so do not play chicken with them. The broads are a wonderful place for inexperienced boaters to learn new skills but they are only safe if treated with respect. Follow these simple rules for success:
A) Always use a pilot if one is available. If a pilot is not available, go for an ice cream and come back in 15 minutes and the pilot will probably be back. Their mobile number or VHF channel will be displayed on signage near to the bridge so drop them a text.
B) A boat is not a car. It will not do what you expect it to do if you treat it like a car.
C) Stop, fold down everything that folds, check your air draft, check again! Keep kids below decks and wear your life jackets.
D) It is STILL not a car and WILL catch you out when you are approaching with lorries thundering overhead.
LOl .. PIlot.. Try ships on the Thames now that's real Pilot job not this amusement park
E) If you think clearance is a problem, just approach faster.
haha! I played golf with my dad on this decent golf course and we both sucked, were slow, and started to see people catching up from the holes behind us. A group eventually did catch us as we were about to tee off. I managed to pull off a beautiful swing that went straight down the fairway like a rocket (PHEW!). My dad stepped up and the pressure was on......He sliced it into a completely different fairway and politely asked the group of golfers watching us to play through. That, was a Potter Higham moment. The cringe was strong.
Potter Higham is another small one. The boats with forward steering position is the most difficult to steer if your not used to it.
Some people just gather on the bridge to watch.
Hit that bridge in 1975.Feel quite proud about that now .
I remember parking up at the mooring and waiting for the pilot, as I believe it is required for hire boats, and seeing a blue hire boat just speed through ripping the roof off. I’ve been boating for over a decade and still use the pilot, I don’t really need to, some people really do need to. It’s funny tho
He spared his boat but lost his dignity.
Personally I'd always use the Pilot. Sure there will be those very competent hirers who do it just perfectly, which then encourages those who are not so competent to 'give it a go' and perhaps save a few pounds in the process on pilotage fees, but If the Pilot made an error of judgement and did damage the costs of repair lay with their indemnity insurance - if a hirer makes an error and causes damage the 'damage waiver' won't cover them so all in all a rather risky decision to make.
Having checked the dates on videos, you were going to take a Richardson's boat under without a pilot at a later date.
Pilot .. Your having a laugh.. for what a 20ft craft, what to you drive a smart car or mini
@@ramblingrob4693 32 ft at least mate.
@@michaeljones8016 Big deal, you want to watch ships on the Manchester Canal now that's needing a pilot.. thru the locks.. (I guess)
No dinghy masts were harmed in the making of this video. That was our Sunday entertainment reminding them at the last minute ( early '60s )
At the end, the swan had absolutely no problem going through.
@@UncleBuntz I was thinking the same thing..."he's done this before."
Pro swan
Uncle Buntz wafted wheel..
Water wheel..
Before a massive pike ate it
I've always had to use the pilot. They never let hire craft through on their own.
Probably a strong side wind, and or current, which would affect a large slab sided craft like that.
Everybody's a professional when watching someone else making mistakes. I luv it when I get the chance to bring these experts in a 24 ft sailboat off the est coast of Newfoundland in a November storm, hehehe if they were such experts, they would be making a good living at it
tbh you don't have to be an expert to get under Wroxham, you just need common sense and to steer straight. Open sea sailing in inclement weather is a whole different beast.
This bridge has caused no end of problems for boats and I'm quite sure if I we're to attempt to go under it I would join the list of those accidentally coming into grief under the bridge.
OMG. Has this guy ever been on the water before with Tropical Gem? Bad enough watching him underway forward.
Looks like he is right hand down on the wheel from ealier. Turn the wheel, turn the wheel 🤣😂🙃
We have the odd one like this in our RC boat club 🤣🤣 (sorry guys)
Inside the boat I hired it listed the bridges it would go under BUT did not mention lowering the top guard rails which were collapsible.
That's usually in the Skipper's Handbook.
Hi UNCLE BUNTZ, when are we going to see your perfect navigation of the bridge ??????
Even the geese got hyped up
Even the #Ducks tried to warn them ;-)
Unless youve drove one of these boats youve no idea..the back doesnt follow the front ala a car but pivots just past centre and swings out.
I'm guessing English isn't your first language.
@@aaronfahr9 why you say that ..I was trying to explain in easy way so people could understand that a river cruiser doesnt steer like a car and the rear swings out when turning and thats why you see boats hit the moorings when pulling away.
@@aaronfahr9 His English was fine.
@@G1NZOU If you think that you could probably do with a few lessons yourself.
@@aaronfahr9 Firstly I'm British, secondly the only real two errors were using "drove" instead of "driven" and not using apostrophes, however, since you didn't actually offer advice on where to correct I can tell your comment was just an attempt by you to be a dick.
All that matters is that yet get through without belting the bridge though xx
This must be in the days before a Pilot was compulsory.
Is it my experience that if your boat is too tall it is safer to go maximum speed.
The boat sits lower in the water.
Indeed ... go with speed.
A shaving of the excess, gives the clearance that you need.
With speed it lessens the effect of water movement and wind movement.
That wind can cause problems.If in doubt,use the pilot.
I don't think the boat I've got rented fits under that one so I won't have to find out.
I wonder how many boats have hit that bridge over the years, I know my brother in law did it about 50yrs ago when he forgot to put down one of the quarter windows and he was a an experienced boater been through the bridge dozens of times before that and hundreds of times afterwards only ever hit the bridge the once though
That bridge would have been worse off if the boats were narrowboats rather than broads cruisers and gin palaces, you would have heard a satisfying bong/bump noise with the narrowboat, you could have sunk those fibreglass hulls with a bridge strike.
If you go quick enough the bridge won't notice !
That's sort of true. If you are heading in the same direction as the current and not going faster than the current then you lose steerage.
@@davidgraham9053 Very true, no need to go maximum speed but straight and true at a decent speed and you don't have any side veering, loose your bottle just before the bridge and you get into a heap of trouble trying to straighten out.
i dnt get this bridge, i piloted it twice by myself perfectly with inches to spare either side because the pilot was not there but on the 3rd occasion of me coming through and the pilot being there and also the water level lower than what it was when i piloted it, the pilot said it will not pass under lol.
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I came for SMASHY SMASHY! WHERE IS SMASHY SMASHY?!!!!
ok, maybe I come back when you have smashy smashy :D
Uncle Bun
Nothing to laugh about. Locals and those taking videos should be helpful and not arrogant to first time boaters. Some people are so selfish.
I'm a skipper on commercial vessels and ferries for the past ten years I think if you don't have enough experience you should not even be aloud to even skipper a vessel like that. would you let some one drive a car on L plates on there own with there family in it. my 11 year old has more experience than most private boat owners on the brouds he shocked every one in Wroxham ramworth Horning. Mooring a 42ft hire craft because that's all down to 3 years experience he has on the water as younger child.
The hire companies do warn people about bridge heights and give an instructional on how to operate the boats, if people are having trouble there usually is a person or two who can offer advice. First time we went sailing with a Hunter's Yard yacht we were having trouble tacking near Potter Heigham and a local in their riverside house gave us some tips.
Bridge heights though are not something locals can help with, the air draught is displayed on the boat helm console and all the bridges have tide clearance markers, if you can't work out clearance then no one can help with that.
Does no one sound their horn anymore ??????
Because most people don't even know the rules of river or how many horn blast mean what
@@dazphilpott2876 Who cares?
@byteme9718 clearly you do because it's took you four years to read this.. what he's saying your ment to blast your horn when passing under bridge..
@@dazphilpott2876 Meant.
He must have had an 11 year old at the wheel from Brooklyn!!
Hope you don't charge for the FRIGGIN WIND NOISE 😡
I say he should charge extra for it! But Im an American :p
The wind noise was loud, because it was rushing through the underside of the bridge ... which was lower today, than usual. Hence, the boat issues.
Your enemy is the BRIDGE.
Haha we did the same about 10years ago on the broadland breeze 3 the tide had come up and we was stoned outta our heads wonder if theres a video anywhere!
I wonder how boats float when they are so heavy. I find this very interesting but frustrating
Basic physics , go back to school .
@@bobgibb2781 do you mean fizical fitness
@@bobgibb2781 hi my good fellow would going back to school help my boat float
Get an empty plastic box like an ice cream box and push it into a bowl of water. You can feel the pressure exerted upwards by the water right? That pressure has a force you can measure. Look at the amount of volume of water that has been displaced by the empty box. The upward force is equal to the weight of water that is displaced. A boat floats if the total weight of the whole boat, is less than the volume of water the boats hull displaces, or equally the upward force the water is generating against either the boat.
@@adambrickley1119 is this a simple example of displacement my good fellow
It's like in car traffic... you have these unsurpassed 'Sunday drivers'. And the bigger the car the worse. Same with boats so to see! Well money doesn't buy intelligence nor wisdom.
These are hire boats. No licence or knowledge required.
Like that railway bridge in the US that opens up hire-trucks like tuna cans, despite the hire trucks having the height on display inside and warning signs telling them they're too tall and to turn.
A duck got in the way
Saved it 👍
I think it fair to say these low bridges are not on major routes, leading anywhere
I think it's fair to say you've not spent any time on the Broads.
@@byteme9718 I think your wrong,I first went 1970,s ,we toured between Stalham and Yarmouth Wroxham Potter Higham. Later during 2000,s we toured the whole system 5 times between Beccles and Stalham .I also spent a week at Coltishall Wroxham with my motor caravan parked up. I also walked the weavers way Cromer to G Yarmouth.
@@alanwann9318 "we toured the whole system" Yes, that includes going under the low bridges, right? I had an egg and some toast for breakfast today, maybe tomorrow I'll have two eggs and possibly some bacon.
Done 💓... New friend here... Thank you for the 💓 also
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Amazing
Darn no one tore the top off there boat
👍💜
Sideways Sid
There is not a lot to go through for A derelict boatyard some moorings the water shallows after that .not worth the effort
so what?
Are you kidding, man?
Poor boat navigation affects everything.
Global warming is linked to poor navigation. I'm sure of it.
Can you get Sat Nav for boats!!
Any fool can see that coming.
How embarrassing! Lol 😂
01:27 :-)
These boats need bow thrusters at least. Too long. A bit pricy but solves a lot of issues like these. I’m old school but common sense plays a big part for me.
Bow thrusters should not be used at bridges.
Bow thrusters are totally inappropriate for this task because a) all you will be doing is fighting against your rudder and moving your centre of rotation further aft, b) as forward hull speed increases, the thruster becomes exponentially less effective due to the shape of the hull.
If have seen many amateur boaters get themselves into much worse situations because they think a bow thruster is a magical cure all that overides the need to point their boat in the right direction in the first place.
An ability to steer in a stright line is all thats required, seems to work for everyone else.
Bow thrusters wouldn't help in this instance, they lost their nerve at the last moment and them reversing made their back end swing out, rather than going through steady. Just go through straight and true and you'll be fine, you don't need to bowthruster wiggle it through.
I learnt on a boat that didn't have bow thrusters, and it's technically better to learn that way, as you get to understand just how boats steer and behave on the water without relying on modern conveniences.
drunk as hell
what,,, are they drunk? lol
DON'T mess up the video with boxes we would NEVER like we can nuscvar what we want they annoy so much with that clumsy way of promoting other videos
@@UncleBuntz that you do NOT like that you put memories promoting another video WE can look for what we want you seriously spoil the image
@@UncleBuntz =jajaajajajaj ok-and but please NO more boxes or curtains on the sides here you have the like
Boring .... you need to get out more !
Lady driver..😀
Uncle Buntz, you should chuck us a buck for watching your krap. Seriously, stick to taking videos of butterflies, or cricket matches, or just throw your camera in that canal.
Its not a canal its a river. But anyway, what were you expecting to see ?