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When did you change the URL, James?
(SpeakerCorner ?)

Gruntdotcom.
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We have not changed the URL!
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Ha ha, Yes thank you, Well pointed out!

I think we will put it down to our team being very busy and tired!

Ha ha

Regards
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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 .
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While rudely peering over the shoulder of another, I learn that word from the lighter side of news is that Aston are moving away from the hire business. The yard will remain open for the provision of private moorings and the business will provide a service, maintenance & repair operation to boat owners.

The fleet is to be sold en bloc at the end of the 2008 season, to have changes to liveries and names, then to be operated from behind a big new ugly unwanted view-blocking misplaced monstrosity of a shed in Horning, the river frontage of which is currently sporting more repulsive signs than most intimately transmitted diseases.

All within planning guidelines, naturally. Nicely complementing the neighbouring Purple Pub perhaps?

And it's no use trying to complain, the phone just rings and rings. Nobody there I guess. Busy time for gardening leave.

Without Prejudice...

GF
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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!
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Whilst not in the same league as ugly monstrosities in Horning, I noticed when sailing yesterday many ugly yellow parking cones dotted throughout Heigham Sound in particular. I'm pretty sure these don't comply with anything meaningful from the Colregs as the international agreement gives yellow buoys as indicating special zones, such as fishing areas, anchorages, dredging operations, etc. Yet we are supposed to assume what exactly about the buoys on the Broads? Or perhaps I've missed an obscure byelaw?
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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?
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BC, I think yellow is an accepted hazard colour but the markers are probably as ridiculously large as I hear are the red & green ones at Horning Hall.

GF/PW: the Horning shed is indeed a monstrosity, the planning approval being of mind boggling ineptitude. I hear it is now painted in a variety of colours including a garish bright green. I was aware of the destination of Aston's hire fleet but not of the premises' new owner; if PW is right, it raises serious questions that maybe should not be aired here.

GF, if you have time, why not post a pic of the shed?
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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.
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Herewith said monstrosity
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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?
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The now underwater ex-island in Horsey Mere now has yellow buoys with X topmarks surrounding the not-it.

Presumably they delineate the limit of a designated anchorage area - inside or outside, I wonder?

Sadly, the buoys seem to be unstable when upright and stable when toppled.
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I've heard that said of some Yarmouth girls, too...
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