webntweb Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Not the best of pictures but does anybody recognise the yacht? Taken at the end of August 1958 on the Bure near Wroxham. Don't hold out much hope of anybody recognising the other boat though. Roy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hi Roy,From your picture looking at the back of the boat that looks like White Moth.http://www.wherryyachtcharter.org/wmoth.phpRegardsAlan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webntweb Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 Thanks Alan, I was thinking the same. I saw her again 28 years later being restored in a shed at Colin Facey's when we hired Meadow Saffron in 1986. Roy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hi Roy, That cruiser looks a bit like Golden Plover or similar http://www.broads.org.uk/wiki/index.php5?title=Boat_Details&BoatId=2744&BoatHistory=3906 Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webntweb Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hi Iain, I did think of that one but had it in my head that the hull was varnished wood. Will look through my old brochures for alternatives but you're probably right. Roy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 White Moth I agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdnamsGirl Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Did White Moth ever have a boom? I'm not sure whether I've seen any photos of her with a boom and it doesn't look as though she had one in the old brochures, although it is difficult to be certain from the poor quality pictures in those. Also, she has two struts in the stern below the seating, rather than the three in wherry yacht in Roy's picture, although I guess that could have been modified over the years. Blakes 1958 brochure lists three wherry yachts for hire - White Moth, Rambler (Leo Robinson) and Olive. Norada was certainly about and sailing then too, but in private ownership and had been renamed Lady Edith. I don't think it's Rambler but I know that both Olive and Norada had booms at this time. Carol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 My guess is that she's Olave. Back then a girlfriend's father owned her and Olave had a smaller than usual mainsail that came off a sailing cruiser. By the way, I wasn't interested in wherries then, my friend Sally, actually became a lifelong friend, worked for Penthouse and seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of well endowed and tempting lady friends that came to stay onboard at the weekend! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdnamsGirl Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 It's always I interesting when an old thread gets resurrected with new information and memories. Many thanks Peter. I believe this is probably Norada .. or Lady Edith as she was then. There are some fantastic photos and memories of sailing on her between 1959 and 1961 on Broadland Memories from John Barrow: http://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/norada1959_barrow.html Carol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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