Hi... glad you enjoyed you first voyage.... did you get to Loddon...?? can imagine it was busy if you did.... @ this time of year..?? Ive been visiting / boating on the Norfolk Broads for some 49 years .... firstly as a child with my parents and now mainly solo boating hires... my last trip being July this year for 11 nights..... There are plenty of places to explore (Loddon being one of my favs) , have you been to Rockland St Mary ..?? only limited moorings but still good to visit. Not sure of the airdraft of your boat? but do you intend to visit the Northern Broads...?? once again.. this time of year it will be crazy busy. I mainly tend to hire in March & October as the moorings are very quiet... especially in March i look forward to seeing your trips... take care & enjoy Neal
Hi Neal, yes we made it to Loddon which we loved, Rockland for a quick pub stop off, Beccles, which again we really liked and Oulton Broad so we got to see lots! We were lucky enough to get moorings everywhere we wanted to get but we used the yacht stations at OB and Beccles to make sure. Our air draft is 13ft 8” dropping to 10ft 8” with our mast down so we know it’s going to be tight getting up north, I’m a little worried about going through Yarmouth bridges to be honest. Any advice you can give us about the broads would be greatly appreciated, it sounds like you have lots of experience! Thanks so much for watching. Kimmi & James 😁
@@cruisingoutout9692 Hi Kimmi & James.. thanks for the reply Glad you made Loddon.. my favorite southern rivers destination and river... the Chet never tires me.... 3mph.. fantastic =o) There are moorings at a fab pub on Oulton Broad rather than the yacht station.... as you approach the Wherry Hotel.. head left for around 200+ feet ??.. there is a pub called The Commodore, has a great pub garden on a small slope & serves great food.. i normally call them to reserve a mooring... not a lot of people know about the moorings so keep it quite =o) As you can gather ,,, i do have a lot of info on the Broads but im no expert on certain things ..therefore on some aspects its best to leave it to the locals like the Broads Authority etc but always willing to help I do have a lot of web pages i use, and one which i find really useful is a live bridge height page that will give you the heights of the bridges at Great Yarmouth which will tell you when it was last updated as well as a graph of the past days showing Neaps & Spring tides (www.broads.bridgeheight.com) I see your boat is moored @ Brundall... have you been to the Ferry House @ Surlingham.. a short cruise from Brundall...headed towards Norwich... Sonia & her team are fantastic... and once again .. great food..... I wont bore you any further, but will look forward to watching your videos... Thanks & take care Neal
Hi... glad you enjoyed you first voyage.... did you get to Loddon...?? can imagine it was busy if you did.... @ this time of year..??
Ive been visiting / boating on the Norfolk Broads for some 49 years .... firstly as a child with my parents and now mainly solo boating hires... my last trip being July this year for 11 nights.....
There are plenty of places to explore (Loddon being one of my favs) , have you been to Rockland St Mary ..?? only limited moorings but still good to visit.
Not sure of the airdraft of your boat? but do you intend to visit the Northern Broads...?? once again.. this time of year it will be crazy busy.
I mainly tend to hire in March & October as the moorings are very quiet... especially in March
i look forward to seeing your trips... take care & enjoy
Neal
Hi Neal, yes we made it to Loddon which we loved, Rockland for a quick pub stop off, Beccles, which again we really liked and Oulton Broad so we got to see lots! We were lucky enough to get moorings everywhere we wanted to get but we used the yacht stations at OB and Beccles to make sure. Our air draft is 13ft 8” dropping to 10ft 8” with our mast down so we know it’s going to be tight getting up north, I’m a little worried about going through Yarmouth bridges to be honest. Any advice you can give us about the broads would be greatly appreciated, it sounds like you have lots of experience! Thanks so much for watching. Kimmi & James 😁
@@cruisingoutout9692 Hi Kimmi & James.. thanks for the reply
Glad you made Loddon.. my favorite southern rivers destination and river... the Chet never tires me.... 3mph.. fantastic =o)
There are moorings at a fab pub on Oulton Broad rather than the yacht station.... as you approach the Wherry Hotel.. head left for around 200+ feet ??.. there is a pub called The Commodore, has a great pub garden on a small slope & serves great food.. i normally call them to reserve a mooring... not a lot of people know about the moorings so keep it quite
=o)
As you can gather ,,, i do have a lot of info on the Broads but im no expert on certain things ..therefore on some aspects its best to leave it to the locals like the Broads Authority etc but always willing to help
I do have a lot of web pages i use, and one which i find really useful is a live bridge height page that will give you the heights of the bridges at Great Yarmouth which will tell you when it was last updated as well as a graph of the past days showing Neaps & Spring tides (www.broads.bridgeheight.com)
I see your boat is moored @ Brundall... have you been to the Ferry House @ Surlingham.. a short cruise from Brundall...headed towards Norwich... Sonia & her team are fantastic... and once again .. great food.....
I wont bore you any further, but will look forward to watching your videos...
Thanks & take care
Neal
Thanks so much for the great tips Neal, we really appreciate it 😊