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  1. In the mid eighties I was really into cars. I drove up to Halifax to test drive a 400 I Rerrari. It was a manual which was reasonably rare in this model. It was glorious a 4 litre V12. Very soon I realised that it was out of my league, if it broke I would have been up a creek etc etc. So on returning to the show room I spied in the corner a 246 GT Dino in Dino blue a kind of French blue. The result we left our 911SC at the deajler and drove the Dino home for £12000.00

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  2. I too spent the start of the 3 rivers at the cottage in Horning watching the start.  I have known Craig a good few years now. Taking on his data base is not for the faint hearted he used to take 3 to4  thous\and photos a year of boats on the Broads whichthen had to correlated with the existing data base and all of us idiots giving him more information on our own pride and joy.

    I will certainly miss him RIP Craig and good thoughts to his wife and family. 

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  3. Peter Smith was running  thee yard in the early sixties, a really pleasant gentleman he was 

    a real yachty and had some great  yachts for hire such as Sabrina they were terrific

    sailing boats. Incidentally  he was either great or great great nephew of George Smith.

    I had an ex Smith Windboat called Springsong hence my forum name.

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  4. I think Mr. Tunmore bought it from the accountant who , it was he who introduced also owned the boat yard the Hamptons name honeymooner.  Anyway the Tunmore family business was pub type gaming machines hence the Tunmore Automatics. A very successful business. Another snippet of useless information.

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  5. Not Ranworth island I concede but just to show how things on the Broads have changed over the years. The first shows Womack in  1952 I think it was a free mooring side on  albeit probably April.

    The next two Ranworth the first side on from the staithe looking up the broad towards the entrance this taken in 1947 and 12 years later in1959 in August. The first Ranworth photo is  prior to either the small moorings at Broad house or the clearing of the island.

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  6. I nearly bought one of those albeit  with only one 5.3 V8 Chrysler. would you believe it was in a garage  of a house on Dereham  Road just up from Waterworks Road. I didn't buy it £3000 was quite a bit in 1983.  I later heard the fellow who bought it ripped the bottom out doing a high speed turn on the Thames.

  7. Bean counters are to blame for most all of the high street woes. He tells the retailer he doesn't need to carry all this stock leave it to the wholesaler who says leave it to the manufacturer who says bu++er that we will make them to order .

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  8. She makes Katinka look a trifle expensive.I was on board a few years ago and she is extremely comfortable with a gentleman's club feel to the accommodation which may not suit  everyone,it does me and if I had a spare lump of cash I would take a punt.

  9. This was the sad end of the "Toad Hall " Wave chief she was all wood as you can see. She was I believe an Arnott Fowler design along with some of the Brink craft  when Mr. Brinkhoff was running it, also Loynes Loch Loyal class.

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  10. The sheds on the other side of Loynes dyke do indeed belong to them, they were their building sheds. The sheds right down on the corner I think were W.K. Barnes which became Barnes Brinkcraft which was just around the corner and into Daisy broad, and was pwned by a Mr Brinkhoff.

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