Navigați cu un iaht cu cabină din anii 1930 pe Norfolk Broads

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1. Hi John, just a quick question for you. Do you and your partner have previous experience sailing, or is part of the charter learning how to handle the boat? We've hired motor cruisers on the broads many times, but recently I've begun to wonder about trying sailing. I am however a complete novice!

2. well done for the trip- how come you can't film, lower the mast, go under a bridge and sail at the same time then?

3. That was most enjoyable, I have sailed the Broads when I was younger and that certainly reignited the memory, thank you.

4. I was as sad as you must have been when your time on Hustler 3 ended. What a lovely cruise, though! Those cruisers remind me of Arthur Ransame's Hullabaloos – some things never change, eh? Oh, and one can always identify the lubbers on rented motorboats; they do the unspeakable and keep their fenders out when underway. Shiver me timbers!

5. Tacking up a Norfolk river is a special art. Get it right and you make amazing progress, get it wrong and you go backwards. Tacking a wherry yacht takes that to the next level!

6. I hired one of the yachts, like yours with my dad 20 years ago, my first time sailing a large yacht, I was 15 at the time, my dad can't sail but had 2 pretend as we left the boatyard!

7. Brilliant!

8. The swans are obviously spoilt. The first reef in the mains’l seems very shallow to my eye; hardly worth the trouble to set it.

9. It all looks very lovely, different to sailing here in New Zealand. The old wherry and the windmill looked great too.

10. 1965, a sailing friend together with our two girlfriends, hired a 30+ ft sailing yacht, 'Perfect Lady 3. We'd had experience of dinghies, this was our first 'command'. Driving up to Potter Heigham in my first car, Mk 1 'Frog Eyed Sprite.. No engine on the boat, we had to 'Quant', involving a long heavy pole and ''walking' the boat beneath us. We suffered all the usual disasters, including another boat putting his bowsprit through our cabin, something of a surprise for our girlfriends sitting down below, a mainsail that jammed fully up as we turned into Thurn Dyke, my friend John on the helm not anticipating any problems I might be having with the halyard, allowing the huge boom to swing out to port, it then proceeded to attack a number of boats moored up along the dyke.
    Wonderfully simple days, the monochrome photos are a small treasure, four fun teenagers, our lives yet unfolded .

11. very nice .have been sailing several times on the broads. How many hours running does the elec motor do ….no solar panels etc

12. How pleasant!! That was a rental?!

13. An excellent video BUT please could we have some shots of the inside of the boat and it’s layout?

14. Most charming

15. Nice video 👍

16. Wanted to see the cabin……

17. Fascinating!
    In 1970-71 I owned an ex-Norfolk Broads trailer sailer in Fiji that had been brought to Fiji by an ex-pat. It had the pivoting mast but because it was not much use there I bolted it in place. I also have print of St Benet's Abbey which was painted by Henry Bright, my g -g uncle. I've been to the Broads but unfortunately only briefly.

18. good video, beautiful boat, wonderful scenery

19. Thanks for all the comments… for those who wanted a bit more detail, Hunters put out a series of instructional videos a few years back. Take a look, for example, at this one featuring Vicki who makes an appearance in the final frame of this video.. https://youtu.be/U9mSDLxi5Y4

20. Sailed on Hunters' boats many times, glad to see you had a good time. Nothing like a hearty breakfast to make all the other boats envious.

21. Great little video… 👍😸

22. Loved the film. Me and a bunch of mates used to hire traditional Broads yachts from the Martham Boatbuilding and Development Company in the eighties. They seemed neither to build nor develop, but had a fleet of trditional yachts that were past their best and were equipped with unreliable Stuart Turner auxiliaries. The quant pole was indispensable! We had a lot of fun with those boats. And they were CHEAP to hire.

    Thanks for bringing the memories back.

23. What a remarkable boat and crew!

24. That boat hauls ass

25. I was surprised this year to find out Hunters yards boats now have electric motors, they did not used to, total sail and quant power. Also not enough Broads Authority moorings these days.

26. Great little video you have here, enjoyed it immensely.

27. We're sorry to hear you couldn't get it up. Boat looks lovely though.

28. Impossibly nostalgic. Gentle, beautiful, soothing. I have sailed just such a boat, in just such waters. Season's end so all alone. Thank you so much.

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