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That's why the yacht station staff help people moor up, to stop idiots doing just that. If you've ever moored up at the Berney arms that's where you find the idiots, it's tidal drop is greater than Yarmouth and there's no one to help you moor.

@@cougar02000 i've not been into gt. yarmouth when help was on hand, undoubtedly needed with the all male, all female crews rushing out on the pith.

If you've never had help with mooring then you've never moored at the yacht station. Every time I've been there I've been pounced upon mainly because they charge to moor.

@@cougar02000listen i imagine i'd know IF i'd tied up in yarmouth yacht station or not. but maybe they saw you were the type that needed help so stepped in.

I didn't fully appreciate the tide at GYYS. The worst part was trying to get my dogs to go for the last pee of the night. One bulkita and a freakishly strong lab mix don't make climbing a ladder easy.

You've got an excuse for bumping the bridge, Ludham is tight anyway and should alway be taken slowly which is what you did but what made it difficult was the wind in windy weather a boat can be difficult to steer or moor as there is a large side area which acts a sail pushing you in any direction but the one you want to go. As for those guys on Melody no one else can be that bad even my dog has got a better idea of steering a boat than that lot!

Hopefully a mine.

@@tunetownmusic-l2f actually I sailed on the Norfolk Broads a couple of times. Also been under that bridge as well. The only thing you really have to watch out for is the height. So there😂 I tell you what is amazing. When you see these big Norfolk sailing barges manoeuvring the rivers. Considering the rivers are quite winding in places.

If someone hit your car while parked the drove off down the road without apologising you'd call them an idiot, this is what this idiot did to me he hit me while moored up then disappeared down river, there's only one name for people like that and that's idiot.

When I was a newbie I never gunned the engine that much, only time I ever had that many revs is when blazing across Breydon Water.

Plenty of people do offer advice, it's only the idiots who ignore the advice and try gunning the engine while wildly steering. We're not opposed to inexperienced boaters, I was inexperienced myself a few years ago, it's just people who don't use common sense and who don't have any desire to listen or learn who get made fun of.

Don't worry about it, it's a great holiday just take your time remember it's not a car and boat don't handle like cars they pivot from them middle so be aware of the rear swinging when manoeuvring and everything is in slow motion compared to driving a car , When mooring take your time come in very slowly and into the current it's not a race use use reverse gear as a brake to stop or slow the boat, if your back end it out in the river turn the wheel fully to the centre of the river and give it some forward throttle this will pull the back in if you start moving forward use reverse to stop it moving. Don't do as I saw some one last year trying to reverse in to a mooring spot it doesn't work go in forward there's very little steering if any in reverse. Other than that have a good holiday don't get too stressed you'll soon get the hang of it especially if you listen to what they tell you at the boat yard just take your time oh and if you do get stressed there's plenty of pubs to help you wind down. Being on a boat is just like being on the roads you've got to allow for the idiots.

Gary Crane - Don’t worry, you’ll soon get the hang of it. Cruisers are much easier than narrowboats.

If you have a brain you'll be ok. Just don't leave it at home. Think of what you are doing and your going to be fine. Read the manual on board to Learn first rather than after a mess up to see where you went wrong. Most people set off without any knowledge then say its hard to drive! You wouldn't jump in a car having no lessons and expect to be a good driver, the same rules apply.

Gary Crane it's really easy there not like cars & the hire boats are plastic with big rubber bumpers / fenders so there not gin palaces you can nudge other boats it's not like cars where you can't touch...when your mooring you can even moor against other boats or walk over there boat it's just common sense & respect..you'll love it

Shut up u tart

Andrew Pattison: Yes I know it is but tell that to the idiot at the helm of this boat.

@@cougar02000 have seen people try at Potter Heigham

Even better if the correct horn signal is used unlike the craft used ad the "right way to go through a bridge" clearly did not bother with a correct horn signal.

Preying Ocelot he didn’t just make a mistake he was extremely heavy on the throttle and showed no respect to his hire boat or others. Just an ignorant bloke who’s probably got through life pissing everybody off

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Lord Eden: Well if you're calling anyone an idiot you should call the broads authority's idiots I was in a designated mooring area complete with markings on the quay. Oh and It wasn't all that close the the bridge that is just an effect of the camera zoom making it look closer that it really was, we were at least 25 metres away, don't believe me look at the area on google earth then you'll realise how far away from the bridge we were and how wide the river really is there it's about 30 metres even allowing for boats moored on the other side of the river that still leaves well over 20 metres so if you can't get a 3 metre wide boat down that you shouldn't be behind the wheel.of a boat.

Well you don't have to moor so close so YEs that does make you an idiot! You stated for once correctly it's a designated mooring spot and as with road speed limit signs you do have to drive right up to the limit if it's not safe to do so just like you don't moor so close to bridges knowing that some boat owners as well as hires are incapable of knowing if their craft will clear bridges at the time of the attemp . So logically will go astern to clear the bridge putting any boat SO Close in line of fire so to speak. I have sailed the Broads and other waterways around the world and by taking proper precautions have avoided your problems.

It would seem you're ignorant of the fact that the boat in question would easily pass under the bridge with plenty of clearance which is exactly what happened when they let the current take the boat. The reason they hit the bridge is they had no idea how to handle a boat and that is the reason they hit me and another boat before hitting the bridge.

Funny enough there are far more D~I~C~K Heads in the Private boat owners group who after one too many drinks. Who bash others boats and bug~ger off with out a by your leave!

Absolute rubbish.Never heard of Broads Tolls then?

Of course I know what you mean. It's the miserable 100 UK Sterling paid annually by boat owners for a 9 metre in length motor boat. That is peanuts for the money that boat hirers pay for just one week.

Funny that................ i pay £600 per year

Private owners still pay overnight mooring fees, shore power electricity fees, and if they don't have a riverside residence for private moorings still pay boatyards for mooring and maintenance. We own a syndicate share in a boat and we're definitely not selfish, the boatyard it's moored at do charge for the mooring spot and maintenance, just now we paid for a new alternator which the boatyard will do all the work for fitting.

Good question

@Martin yes there is

It's probably sunk by now if idiots drive it like they do with Melody 2.

if someone had hit your car as hard as this idiot hit me and then drove off with out stopping I'm sure you'd be annoyed and I'm sure you'd soon be in contact with the police and you insurance company.

Sad that you need a laptop on the broads

@@grahamjordan1040 I occasionally work from 'home' there, you have a problem with that?

The boat yards do give minimum training but that consists of a 15min trip up and down the river then you're on your own if you can handle the boat or not and you can't get much more minimum than that in fact it doesn't even approach anywhere near minimum and in fact it's wholly inadequate.

the same go's for over here in the netherlands. Lots of germans that come over an hire a boat. They want to see all of the canals so they allways go full speed. And most of those companys just tell them the controls and then they are off. But there is a change happening. There is a guy here that has started a company that calls himself something like boating school north netherlands. And he actually do's a proper training of the people that rent boats. So a rental company can call him and he comes over and gives the new renters a proper training. And i think it will pay off for the companys too. If they make less damage to their rental boats it will be cheaper to keep them running and insurance might go down too. So that means end of the day that boat training guy will pay for him self. But then you still have the problem of the idiots that have a boat for just 1 week and they want to see everything in just 1 week. That means that they go everywhere flatout.

you get some people here that go flat out when they are told not to bt they don't listen its as though they own the river and can do what they like they forget about the wild life and the fish and other people and those who live along the river banks

What do you expect? Boat hire companies to require customers to hold a day skipper qualification from the RYA before hiring a craft? In fact I have over the years seen more accidents caused by private owners than holiday makers.

I think people who hire a boat should be allowed to go to the boat yard the day before their holiday starts and be given a free of charge or for a small fee at least to cover the fuel boat handling course on a boat of similar size and controls to the one you have hired as obviously the boat yo hired is out

He'd probably still be a danger with a row boat I wouldn't trust him to handle a kiddies inflatable dinghy and he probably couldn't handle that safely.

St Bennet's is only about half an hour or so down river from Ludham but how can you have an accident there especially if you're moored up the river is very wide at St Bennet's at around 100yards wide so it takes some doing to hit someone moored or not which means it was sheer incompetence on Melody's behalf

No licence required just common sense which some people on the broads don't seem to have, and it's not polite to keep crashing into other boats especially when you don't apologise afterwards and check for damage which could involve an insurance claim.

We've been holidaying on the Broads for some years now and from my experience most of the boats handle similarly. On the day this Idiot hit us the weather was very warm and calm not a breath of wind so he couldn't blame that on the wind he just seemed to have no idea that boats seem to have a slight delay on the steering which if you're not aware of it will cause you to make even more steering input thereby over steering which is what he did when he hit us and then the bridge, boats as he found out do not handle like cars. You mention your boat being a nightmare in the wind all the boats are the same they have a large side area which mean if you have a crosswind it will push you towards the bank or over the other side of the river, wind especially a cross wind can make mooring difficult and casting off a nightmare.