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Right, well anyway, it's time for me to give back some charity to Alan by way of a few rounds in the bar. I've not eaten yet, so I can see this going pear shaped /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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If you go to the Broads, you will need to get a visitors licence. For Kudu this will be £37.30 for a week: as she has an engine, she will be charged the same as a motor boat.

Depending on where you decide to enter, the licences are available from:
Great Yarmouth: Yacht Station, Tar Works Road, Great Yarmouth 01493 842794
Lowestoft: Oulton Broad Yacht Station, The Boulevard, Oulton Broad 01502 574946

If you decide to go in through Gt Yarmouth, try to aim to arrive just after low water. Not only will you get a push from the tidal stream, but the mud flats in Breydon Water are exposed, and much easier to avoid.
 
Interesting background Nathan!, and I suspect that the problem that has arisen is the fact that you are probably 20/30 years out of date. some of us around ( old,decrepit,grey & totally past it) actually started in little craft and worked our way up to that which we sail to-day!
Unlike a number of relatively new arivals on the scene who decided to spend lots of dosh on getting a yacht! and then paying large amounts of cash to maintain,marina berth and fit all the latest gizmo's. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif (I suspect that is why starter yachts have crept up to the mid 30'.)...as opposed to, Ballerinas, Debutants, Kingfishers, Lysanders and similar!
There are still a number of us who's activities are based upon a slightly more pragmatic & practical basis, with the benefits of having access to mutual advice and assistance, non-marina moorings, and relatively low annual operating costs.
So enjoy the experience, ignore the whingers and critics, and go for your trip! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif there are a lot of us backing you!
 
RESPECT for the ECF stalwarts, unfailing in their moral and material support. RESPECT for Nathan, whose tales of the freezing winter in St Kats had me wanting to send Red Cross parcels. OK his round Britain trip may seem under-prepared to some, but compared to what norm? Eric the Red? Didn't have that many charts. Columbus? Only got to the wrong place due to Vatican backing. Blondie Hasler - would also probably be consideresd '"unprepared" by user 696969- 69, or whatever his new handle is.
Thanks Jim for the post, and thanks all ECF peeps for "random acts of kindness"
 
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This is 2009. Nobody can sail 'skint'. Everything costs money. Without funding, sooner or later (sooner in this case) you will rely on other peoples charity.

It is at this point that I lose all respect for the venture.

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Depends what you sail and how you live. I've lived skint all my life until recently. I've also sailed. Okay, cheap old boats, everything second hand, some donated by friends and fellow sailors.

I am now in the happy position of not having to do everything on a shoestring and can help along others in the position I was in until recently. It's not charity, it's comradarie of the sea.
 
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