We must have gone under it at low tide initially, and it was only when we came back the same way, we noticed on approach that the bridge appeared to be considerably lower than we remembered. To compound this error, the person who was steering (captaining? piloting?) the boat at that point...
Oh we had a great week. Must have been 1997 now I think about it, as I remember us all staggering out of bed one morning, somewhat hungover, going to pick up some breakfast and the Sunday papers for the football scores (Internet, you say? What's that?), and noticing billboards outside every...
No, probably a bottle of Hooch I'd imagine.
Yeah, it was a long time ago. And I wasn't the one steering. You'd be surprised at the noise a fibreglass boat roof makes when scraping the underside of a stone bridge, it really is quite something.
Ahhh, Potter Heigham Bridge. I remember it well. So did the boat rental company, as we brought our cruiser back to them a good inch or so lower in the roof area than it was when we picked it up.
Nobody told us there were tidal issues at that particular location :facepalm: