Would You Hire A Boat Too Wide For The Ant And Chet?

[Vaughan]

 

This old photo is all I can find of the pleasure wherry Solace, carrying the Bishop of Norwich back upriver from the St Benets Abbey service, sometime in the 60's

She is every bit a wherry, and the same size as the Albion.

[LizG]

Coming back from Barton Regatta in 2016.

I remember one Barton Regatta possibly 2009 or 2010, three Wherries came back down the Ant on the Tuesday morning almost in convoy - it was chaos at Ludham Bridge!  One was Albion, one was Solace but I can't remember the other one!

[K2T]

more Wherry photos please, lovely.

[Turnoar]

Hathor in the 1970's sailing on Hickling.

 

[Vaughan]

1 hour ago, Turnoar said:

Hathor in the 1970's sailing on Hickling.

Is that Humphrey Boardman, standing in the hatchway?

[Turnoar]

I’m fairly sure Gordon Curtis is on the helm. Sadly he passed away earlier this year otherwise we could have obtained the full crew list I expect. I’d assumed it was perhaps the Martham family on board but if it was a charter trip I wonder whether the yard might have hire records going back that far?

Certainly a nice thought that the Boardmans went for a pleasure sail on their old boat.

[Vaughan]

1 hour ago, Turnoar said:

Certainly a nice thought that the Boardmans went for a pleasure sail on their old boat.

I knew Humphey Boardman, through his patronage of the Wherry Trust and it looks like him - from a long distance!

He was one of the great, true Broadsmen, to whom we owe our heritage, of the Broads as we know them today.

I fear he would be "turning in his grave", to see what we are doing to them now.