[Sundog formally known as Alice]

7 minutes ago, Vaughan said:

Nice photo Nicolas, and welcome to the forum.

We would love to hear more history of Sundog as I remember when she used to moor on the island in Thorpe.

I don't remember her moored on Wroxham Broad - maybe you were there for the regatta week?

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).

 

10 minutes ago, NicolasJenni said:

 

 

[Sundog formally known as Alice]

On 11/20/2015 at 19:35, woodwose said:

I don't really have much extra information about these photographs. They are scans I made of colour slides taken by Chris Boardman (of How Hill). The only other information is that Chris has written "Sundog 1960" on them. If you look at the photograph on the Ludham Archive website (follow the link), you can see that the wherry has a counter stern. So I think we can be sure that this is Sundog and it was mobile and sailing in 1960 when Chris made a trip on her. The picture I posted also says "Wroxham" on it so we know that's where it was taken. There is another in the same series with St Benet's Abbey in the background.

I attach another picture showing people in deckchairs on the stern. There are no pictures of the complete boat.

I don't know who any of the people are in the pictures. One of the ladies might be Chris' wife, Elaine, but I am not very sure as she looks a bit too young here.

Sorry, that's all I know but I am glad you liked the pictures. So far as I know, these are unpublished (until now).

Best wishes

Nigel (Ludham Community Archive Group)

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.

[Sundog formally known as Alice]

On 11/19/2015 at 22:46, woodwose said:

There is a picture taken aboard Sundog on this link. http://www.ludhamarchive.org.uk/bdmcwher.htm

I have other pictures in the Chris Boardman collection. (see attached for example)

Nigel (Ludham Community Archive Group)

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.