Broads Tours Boats Never Die

[LizG]

Quoting from a Broadland Memories blog

http://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/blog/2012/03/old-broads-tours-boats-never-die/

We were walking around Cardiff Bay yesterday when I looked out across the water to suddenly see the Princess Royal crossing the bay.  I remembered seeing that somewhere there was a Broads Tours boat but forgotten where!

After lunch she was just leaving her moorings and the lady let me on her jetty to take a photo. I explained I remembered seeing her go past the house in Horning regularly!

For those on Facebook there is a bit more about her recent winter overhaul and ship's dog.

https://www.facebook.com/bronwenshipsdog/?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf

http://cardiffwaterbus.com/

[riyadhcrew]

I am on a tour tomorrow morning at 04.00am to Malaysia for the day. An absolute pain in the butt - but necessary for the Bali visa. At least I can see what beer they have and slurp a few. 

[Broads01]

I live in Cardiff and so I'm familiar with the Bay. I had no idea there was a historic Broads boat there. 

[AdnamsGirl]

Excellent and well spotted!

I was promised a free trip on Princess Royal if I made it to Cardiff. It is surprising how well travelled some of the old Broads Tours launches were after they left the Broads.

 

Carol

[JennyMorgan]

Broads boats in general have been known to travel. Several Broads One Design sailing boats have been to India, another ended up in the Caribbean where it was destroyed in a typhoon. A norfolk wherry, the Gypsey, went to Holland and then toured many of the rivers in Europe.

[webntweb]

I had a trip on an ex Broads Tours boat on the Falkirk Wheel not long after it opened. When I went back a couple of years ago they had upgraded? to modern steel boats.

[troutman62]

The old wooden Broads tours boats were lovely, we stayed in a little "cottage" in a boatyard in Wroxham in 1972 when I was 19 ,its long gone now , my girlfriend and I , now my wife , took a trip ( in the best possible sense this time) to Horning and Salhouse broad and it was the start of my incurable Broads addiction. 

Its all Broads Tours fault !