Boats...boats...boats this week.
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| Lydia Eva |
LYDIA EVA, last Great Yarmouth steam herring drifter swinging in the tide for a day trip on what became a not very nice day. I was glad I didn’t go.
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| Lydia Eva |
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| Lydia Eva |
FALCON, Victorian steam launch built for Sir Edmund Lacon, founder of the local brewery. Now kept at the Museum of the Broads at Stalham for leisurely one hour cruises.
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| Falcon |
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| Falcon |
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| Falcon |
Sharpies British Championships at Wells-next-the-Sea were disrupted by bad weather on Saturday. The International 12 Square Metre Sharpie is a classic 2 man racing dinghy first built and designed in 1931. There are fleets in North Norfolk, Itchenor and Grafham Water. They don’t half go!
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| Sharpies |
Today I went out on WHITE MOTH, a wherry gentleman’s yacht. They followed the original cargo craft of which there are only two remaining, and the pleasure boat wherries who were the initiators of holidays afloat on the Broads and could sleep up to a dozen passengers and crew.
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| White Moth |
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| White Moth |
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| White Moth |
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| White Moth in Wroxham Broad |
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| White Moth |
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| White Moth |
In Wroxham Broad we sailed through a racing fleet of Yare-Bure one design dinghies which proved “interesting”,
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| Yare-Burr |
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| Yare-Bure Fleet |
Late in the afternoon we sailed past the Broads Authority radar speed trap and watched hire boats abruptly slowing down when they spotted it. Sound familiar behaviour?
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| Speed trap |
