Norfolk Broads: Ludham Bridge, idiot with boat crashes
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2016
- While on holidaying on the Norfolk Broads an idiot hit my boat twice quite hard this video is of him trying to get his boat under Ludham Bridge a few second after hitting my boat.
Oh and he never apologised he just tried to shoot off down river.
Some people should just not be behind the wheel of a boat I'd hate to see what he's like in a car.
We are hiring ,for the first time, in July. These comments have made me wish we were not! I expect to make mistakes, and hoped that there would be some understanding. It seems obvious from some comments on here that it is going to be a stressful week.
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
Spotted your channel on JetX.
I would have jumped over into his boat if possible and given him something else to think about.
A good name and shame here Cougar 2000. 👍👊
As some of the comments below, just don't rush, as has been said boats do not handle like cars,, one tip I was given many years ago, was just keep your eyes on where you want to be, dont try to go in a straight line as they say go with the flow, that may be the bend in the river, going under a bridge or between other boats, or docking, and remember you pilot a boat or the right hand side of a river, and you don't park it, you moor it! LOL We eventually bought a cruiser on the Suffolk Broads and had many happy times aboard.
Me and a friend are actually on the Melody 2 at the moment. It's a nice boat put due to the wind and rain we had a little bump coming through Ludham Bridge. We were going very slow under it so it was not anything terrible but it is definitely a bit wider than the boats we have has before as we have had no problem getting under there in the past. Saying that after watching this video, we did no where near as bad as these guys.
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!
on the broads a few years back with an ex partner of mine, me very minimal experience with handling boats and her absolutely none, apart from me bouncing off the side once due to going to Moor up a bit quick not realising the speed everything else went smoothly, bit of common sense, realising it don't stop as quick as a car, don't turn ad quick as a car and a basic understanding of tide times so you didn't get caught under one of the bridges it's all fine oh and knowing how to securely Moor it, the company we hired from were really good and did give us a lesson on the ropes, steering etc aswell
"He hit us so hard my laptop almost went on the floor"... A real tragedy narrowly averted then.
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?
I see it daily...... excellent filming.
I did not notice anything wrong, he got through?
Be nice if all these ‘experts’ actually were a bit more supportive. The broads is a great holiday don’t be put off.
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.
this why people with no boating experience should not be able to hire boats they need more then half hour training befor let lose and put other boat user's at risk and other people's boats get bashed up
Poor old Melody 2.
he didn't have a horn so a crashing sound seemed more appropriate
I bet he would hit something in the middle of the Atlantic.
Hopefully a mine.
@@Drumandbassplanet 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.
I wonder what happened to "Melody 1"?
It's probably sunk by now if idiots drive it like they do with Melody 2.
They should asked others to get aboard . may have given an extra inch or two for clearance
My guess is! it was a Saturday and they just picked it up from Richo's,
Uncle Albert's broads vacation
cougar02000 I am in the process of making a video about boat collisions on the Norfolk Broads and the necessity for greater tuition and the need to eradicate people navigating vessels under the influence of alcohol. I would very much like to use some clips out of this video, would you permit to do this please?
Be my guest you can use any clips you like from my video but please leave a credit and link to me in your video.
question is was he drinking or pissed or both
Good question
@Martin yes there is
You could tell by the weigh of the boat, the idiot behind the helm was trying to "drive" it like a car!
You are quite right. These sorts should be given nothing more powerful, nor bigger than a row boat!
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.
IF you're trying up in great yarmouth pay attention to the tide, and how much slack is in the mooring ropes. i have seen a group of lads return late at night to find the cruiser hung from the mooring wall 85% out of the water.
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.
Calling people idiots is not very helpful. Clearly, no one has ever been a boating newbie.
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.
Wow 👏
Lady Margaret knows better
Anyone can hire a boat in the UK. The fault lies with the boat operators - they should give minimum training at least.
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
melody 2 that boat hit mine twice while we were at bennets abby
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
Someone makes a mistake and you post it on CZcams to embarrass them further. Classy 🙄
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
Er what
we've actually hired that boat & it's very light on the steering which can be a nightmare in the wind.
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.
Its easy to navigate under this bridge
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.
Without these boat hirers the rivers and canals will deteriorate and no maintenance will be afforded. The money that is generated by people hiring boats are the only persons that are contributing for such maintenance. Boat owners are not contributing any money except mooring space. These owners should be charged for leaving their boats moored for a whole year taking and minimizing mooring space. Locals and boat owners should be more helpful to these hirers in Norfolk broads and not be selfish. Just remember that hirers are reducing in the Norfolk broads because of these selfish boat owners and moving to France or Germany where people are more helpful.
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.
shit I can get my 100ft yatch thru that
Boy it must be nice to be perfect like you guys. Some people on here seem to think you need to have a license to drive a boat on the Broads, same license as you need to have children I guess. ??
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.
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Some help and understanding might have been a better way to approach this. A thumbs down from me. And yes I was a yacht skipper for a long time on Sydney harbour so I have a bit of experience with boats.