A Boat Owner’s Blog

Another small step in our bid to become real boat people took place with our attempt to visit the Lowestoft Air Festival in Silver Dream. Boats of all kind run out to sea each year to watch the goings on from the decks of their boats. This was to be our first ever […]

Same place, same people, just several years later. As my former flatmate Adrian and I returned to the city which was our home for so long it was a bitter-sweet re-union. The third member of our little “team” for all those years became the second of us to “tie the knot”, hence the […]

Following our troubled excursion to the northern broads the decision was taken to remove Silver Dream from active duty and concentrate on some maintenance work ahead of our first scheduled sea trip for the Lowestoft Air Show.  As she was lifted from the water to inspect the hull we noticed a rather serious problem - […]

Our annual Broads holiday followed on from the NBF bash at Ranworth Island. As holidays go it was not the most successful with appalling weather and a recurring electrical problem forcing us to abandon it on the Tuesday. Mother nature, however, had other ideas. The ferocious weather had left water levels so […]

Last Saturday week, the NBF grand get-together took place. This annual shindig of Broads boat owners, hirers and general enthusiasts last year enjoyed superb weather but this year mother nature was not on our side. I had volunteered my services as a ferry pilot helping people get from the staithe onto the island. […]