Yarmouth and the knee shortage.....

Let's get the important bit out of the way first. Girls, prepare to be disappointed. The weather was rainy and cold so the heartthrob of this blog (John for new readers) arrived in long trousers. No new knee pictures to set your pulses racing. Next time we see them, we will try to order warmer weather......

OK, having confessed that this will be a normal tedious post, here it comes:

We still love Yarmouth harbour even though it has changed beyond belief as they add more "walk ashore" berths and remove all the old posts that boats had to hang between. The posts caused much fun, watching people trying to get tied up between them with much shouting and stress as the tide runs through the harbour quite rapidly sometimes! Here is an example of how it used to be, showing an impounded fishing boat (they were drug smuggling) hanging between the last remaining posts in Yarmouth:

The other sad bit was seeing the little town centre becoming more "touristy" and less like a centre as some shops change hands. Our berth was right near the ferry terminal which meant we had lots going on nearby but also lots of noise at night from the vehicles embarking and leaving:

The evening entertainment was supplied by the local retained firemen though. Not because they offered knee pictures or "men in uniform" appeal to replace the excitement lost earlier on. No, it was because they seemed to enjoy pumping the harbour water around and having a "my hose is bigger / squirtier than your hose" contest. Boys will be boys:

At least the evening was civilised as Tim and Sheila (the folks who joined us for a brief boat trip whilst we were in Penarth) came to say hi. They were preparing their Yarmouth 23 sailing yacht which had just been relaunched for a trip to her new home in Plymouth.

A Yarmouth sunset to close our visit with. Shame they replaced the old posts with a fuel berth, spoils the view a bit:

Maintenance news:

Remember how our built-in navigation PC had started to behave like a 7 year old Windows machine?  Well, it has now gone though that stage and advanced to serious sickness. Probably terminal. It started rebooting itself and now either refuses to start or freezes once going. Looks suspiciously like a hard disk on the way out rather than a power supply issue. Great. Still, as we are heading to Southampton for a lift out, we can take the errant device to see the nice folks at Tech-Bods who are happy to fix elderly strangely configured machines (we hope).