Project Troll

01/04/2025

Boat owner invents 'Add on Conning Tower'

An ingenious Norfolk Broads boat owner, frustrated with rising river levels, has adapted a broads 'bathtub' to enable them to access the upper reaches of the Bure and Hickling Broad. Inventor Darren Dredger has grafted a second hand conning tower onto his broads boat nicknamed the 'BathSub'. If further trials are successful, he aims to provide a DIY kit which he thinks could sell as far away as Wroxham. Although the boat block size remains the same, Broads Authority are yet to comment if there will be an enhanced toll for the nuclear reactor that powers the craft.

20/02/2025

Potter Heigham water level has been pretty low these last few days with up to 7ft under the bridge today. Even our sensors disregarded the data for a while as it couldn't believe it!!! back to normal now though...

01/06/2024

We have had over 4.6 thousand bridge enquires in the last 30 days. Nearly 3 thousand of them at Potter Heigham - wonder how many we will get today with The Three Rivers Race happening.

Good luck to all competitors and especially the Martham Boats teams who sponsor our service at Potter.

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We are moored up in Whim IV at Potter ready to watch the excitement and cheer everyone on.

18/05/2024

Apologies to everyone who uses the Project Troll for realtime bridge heights at Potter Heigham. There have been some odd readings over the past few weeks. Long story cut short but after lots of work behind the scenes looking for software bugs - there weren’t any!! In this mornings sunshine we visited the sensor to find it had taken a knock and pushed the sensor out of whack! Normal service is now resumed.

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Please note that the sensor is calibrated to match the guage in the Pilots office which is slightly different to the bridge boards and considered to be the most accurate.

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