A Boat Owner’s Blog

(Rewritten as the previous entry was too long…. )
When even the ducks are taking shelter in the pub porch you know the weather is not good. And so it was as the end of May Bank Holiday weekend came and went.
The highlight of the weekend was spending the afternoon in Reedham with fellow Mirage […]

Oulton Broad, Lowestoft, on Saturday afternoon saw the annual East Anglian Dragon Boat race. We travelled down to Oulton Broad to see if we could anchor and watch the proceedings from the bow of Silver Dream but sadly the extremely high winds made that impossible. Instead we berthed at the Yacht Station and […]

I am thinking of writing the above based on my first foray into the world of sailing on Saturday past. And there was me, as a dyed-in-the-wool MOBO owner, thinking they were something to be avoided - oh how wrong I was! Still, if you are planning to plough into one, it tends […]

It’s back out on the river tomorrow but this time on an entirely different animal from Silver Dream - a broads sailing cruiser. I hope the weather is better than the last few days or it is going to be a very wet experience indeed. Maybe I’ll finally learn some of this strange […]

So Beccles it was on a grey Bank Holiday weekend - Monday morning even brought rain, something I haven’t seen in a long time!
At one stage on Saturday there were six NBF boats at Beccles Yacht Station and at low tide a staggering 9ft clearance at Beccles Old Bridge. I’ve never seen the water […]