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Hi can anybody comfirm the rumours i have heard that aston boats in beccles is up forsale or finishing as a working boatyard. What a shame if the rumours are true as thay have been going for many years now . I have been in the trade for more years now than i want to remember and have seen the boats and the broads change in many different ways. I have noticed over the years the loss of aprentiships and wonder what will happen in the not to distant future (will their be a shortage of boatbuilders and marine engineers ?). To think of the amount of boatyards in beccles and the surrounding areas to what their is now . It seems a dieing trade .

I believe that I am right in suggesting that the Aston Boats site at Beccles has been bought by the same gentleman who habitually builds large monstrosities in prominent positions both on the Waveney and the Bure, despite heartfelt local opposition.

Which begs the question, Is the Broads Authority Planning Department living up to expectation? Are we able to have confidence in said department?

Hardly a fair question, when there really is only one answer!

It's probably bad form to reply to your own posts but what the Heck:

I've found the answer to the yellow buoys:

"Yellow;
May have a yellow "x" topmark;
Indicates dangers such as pipelines, firing ranges, race courses, seaplane bases, and areas with no through channels.
Marks the perimeter of designated anchorage area - your charts will provide the depths. "

Got it. It'll be the new Heigham Seaplane Landing Area then. Well, I bet there's nothing in the planning rules about not landing seaplanes at Heigham. Or an anchorage which is BA speak for " You may run aground at this point" perhaps?

Re questions that perhaps should not be asked here, discretion is my second name!

Re the buoys, why could they not have used eco friendly withies? Sustainable, traditional and cheap.

In view of the government's planning policy statement concerning development in flood plains (PPS25), the least anyone with a sense of humour could do would be to add a benchmark where Minty Green meets Hangar Grey.
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No, not Hannah, that's a different shade of green Gray.
Nor Murray, that's more of a boiled mint.

Personally I'm quite content with the plastic daleks of Horning Hall. There isn't a single one visible from the point in the river bend where keelboats keep running aground, so the entertainment will continue.

As for those in Heigham Sound, we can expect them to be used to continue the policy of channel narrowing to the point where they represent Bilgecrawler's quoted "...areas with no through channels". There isn't very far to go now and the chance of the Sailor Manipulation Strategy's schedule amounting to any kind of sediment management strategy this winter seems extremely remote.

GF

It would be irresponsible not to include a legal statement at this point.
Graffiti is vandalism. The Criminal Damage Act fails (deliberately) to define damage, but you can take it that the daubing of paint or other marking substance on someone else's monstrosity would be likely to be judged naughty. Unless it could be successfully argued that the artwork improved the monstrosity?

I've heard that said of some Yarmouth girls, too...