Son of Topcraft

[JennyMorgan]

You have to balance that against the mirth you gained from his repertoire of jokes and anecdotes

 

 

Ummmmmmmmmm. I'm not convinced however I will agree that they were memorable!

[JennyMorgan]

 

I always thought they came from Topcraft though that too was doubted.

 

I feel certain that they did.

[JanetAnne]

I feel certain that they did.

You need to think around 1976. I'm sure the caraboat or whatever name you'd like to give it was under construction 1976 to 1978 (when we were building Miss Dawn on Jimmys site Peter, and when SLP were in Leo Robinsons blasting and causing all the problems with rust contaminated blast material landing on the boats and staining them).

 

Jimmy was putting it together as a spare time fill in project when the fleet allowed so my guess is either 1978 or 1979 launch. It looked like a pick up truck though!

[BroadScot]

Hi JA,

 

This is the Topcraft one I remember seeing on the Broads....   http://the-norfolk-broads.co.uk/fileattachments/t/text_topcraft.pdf

 

Copy n paste to browser it works.

 

 

Iain

[Paul]

That's the one (IIRC there wer two) that I remember. So did these hulls go on to be Top Liners?

 

Given the popularity of caravanning there could well be a market for these now, if the price was right of course.

[Rincewind]

Many moons ago the wonderful Jim Toplis told us that the vessels did indeed originate from Topcraft and were originally for those people who didn't like to use other beds and bed linen on hireboats preferring to use their own caravan.

I have no reason to doubt his explanation.

 

The Broads still misses Jim...as do we all.

[JanetAnne]

Oh good find Iain. Well done!

[loribear]

 i like what someone put in the comments,  they said it was geremy clarkson settling into his retirement home lol lol. lori