Posted by andy clayton on December 27, 2011 at 11:30:52 user cousin_jack.
In Reply to: Re: Cruising the Broads posted by Jon on December 27, 2011 at 06:34:01:
Potter Bridge has been rebuilt, so it isn't the nightmare it once was. I remember Wroxham bridge though. Going up against the flow was dead easy. The next day, coming down stream with the flow, there was less steerage way on my hired cruiser. Then as I got to the bridge another boat nosed into it from the far side. I had to throttle back and lost way completely, the river flow carried me into the bridge abutment. Going around I did it on the second run but my style had evaporated. There ought to be a rule that up-flow river traffic should give way to down flow traffic, who have to maintain a speed to keep their steerage!