NicolasJenni

I'll put together some pictures and what I can remember, and what I can glean from my mother. But Sundog was then based at Wroxham, next to the Yacht Club, with its own mooring approached through a reed-bed. Wroxham was where George Money, her skipper, lived. The photo is not mine (they are scans by Woodwose from the Chris Boardman collection).

This 1960 picture aboard Sundog includes George Money her skipper, who had worked sailing wherries from boyhood from about 1905, my mother Rosemary, the daughter of the owner Percy Crotch, me as a boy of 7 (half-hidden behind George Money) and friends. Sundog's engine (she did not then have a sailing mast) was barely adequate for her 25 tons, so a launch moored alongside provided extra power during our journeys from one mooring to another. These included How Hill, the home of Chris Boardman who took this picture. When my grandfather died in 1967, or shortly before, Sundog was sold.

This boy is me, aged about 7, so this would put it at 1960. My grandfather Percy Crotch owned Sundog and moored alongside her is the diesel launch Elleren Chief. Not sure who the little girl is yet.