Broads Cruiser
Our Boys
Howard and Dennis Weedcutter
Miss Seacrete
Steel Sailing Dinghy
Wherry Mast Gear
White Damsel
Yare
Wildfowl Punts
Queenie, Jim and Jack
Reedlighter
Osprey
Airborne Lifeboat Mk 2
Middy Inboard-Outboard
Widgeon
Ice Yacht
Dabchick No. 6
This was used as a provisions boat by Curtis Stores of Acle
This operated on the Broads from around 1960 to 1982.
This is the thinnest ferro-cement hull ever built at just 3/8ths of an inch (9.6mm). The hull is immensely strong but it takes 6 people to lift.
Kings of Norwich built around 6 of these in the 1940s. The hull is very fragile now hving been stored in a garden for many years.
Wherries, the Broads trading boats, needed to drop their masts to clear the low bridges.
A Yarmouth One Design racing yacht. One Design refers to the fact that all the boats racing in the class were identical.
The Great Yarmouth Port and Haven Commissioners were the forerunners to the current Broads Authority. From the 1930's Yare was used to patrol the area,
The gun would be loaded with 1lb of gunpowder and 2lbs of shot, nails, etc. When fired the punt would shoot up to 25 yards backwards.
Henry Blogg was the most decorated lifeboat coxwain ever. This boat was built for him in 1915. There have been several attempts to preserve the boat but it's now been decided to restore the front end only.
These were used for carrying reeds, sedge, etc. along the broads to the staithes.
A classic one-off Broads pleasure cruiser
In the early part of the 2nd World War these would be slung under a plane and dropped to downed aircrew for them to try and make their way home. Later high speed rescue launches were developed.
These slightly strange engines were used in some of the Airborne Lifeboats.
A Norfolk Punt, the pleasure development of the wildfowlers' gun punt.
These were built to race on the frozen broads, generally using the rig of a pleasure boat.
Broads One Design, "The Brown Boats", the design was commissioned in 1900 by the Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club, from the 1980s these have been built from fibreglass which rjuvenated the class.
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Broads Cruiser