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I really enjoyed that. I had many holidays mainly on the Herbert Woods yachts that all had petrol engines as a backup. I was only just thinking that perhaps the hunters boats could have an electric motor to give that extra option and now I know at least one of them has. 😊

I went on a school trip in 1976 on boats like that. We had 5 and a day boat (no cabin). Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

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Wonderful! More incentive for me to take my wayfarer there this summer, thanks.

So nice to see that older people can perform this operetta and do it well.

Hi from Norfolk. So glad you enjoyed your time with us. A very good video. I live near Ranworth and sail at Horning. We may not have Londons eye or museums but we do have big ole skies.

It would have been great if you had mounted your camera aft and let us see some edited highlights of you dropping the mast to get under the bridge, then setting sail again. It’s the part of hiring a yacht on the broads that is very different from my usual sailing, hence the interest.

I was reminded of Sir Francis Chichester's efforts back in the 1960s? Not sure he wore gardening gloves though! Enjoyed watching the video and was reminded of my youth work days when I took a party of young people from inner London to the Norfolk Broads - I can't remember much about it except that their behaviour was scary

In the early 60s, university sailing clubs regularly took out fleets just before Easter before the reeds had started growing and there were few leaves on the trees. Exhilarating sailing. No cruisers, just yachts. I saw the Broads in mid-summer many years later and vowed never to visit again unless out of season.

Lovely vessel!

Love it. I have a Broads yacht here in Australia and hope to get her on the water in the next couple of months. Well done, guys.

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Hi from the San Francisco Bay area. What a wonderful countryside sail! Cheers.

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Impossibly nostalgic. Gentle, beautiful, soothing. I have sailed just such a boat, in just such waters. Season's end so all alone. Thank you so much.

We're sorry to hear you couldn't get it up. Boat looks lovely though.

Great little video you have here, enjoyed it immensely.

I was surprised this year to find out Hunters yards boats now have electric motors, they did not used to, total sail and quant power. Also not enough Broads Authority moorings these days.

That boat hauls ass

What a remarkable boat and crew!

Loved the film. Me and a bunch of mates used to hire traditional Broads yachts from the Martham Boatbuilding and Development Company in the eighties. They seemed neither to build nor develop, but had a fleet of trditional yachts that were past their best and were equipped with unreliable Stuart Turner auxiliaries. The quant pole was indispensable! We had a lot of fun with those boats. And they were CHEAP to hire. Thanks for bringing the memories back.

Great little video... 👍😸

Sailed on Hunters' boats many times, glad to see you had a good time. Nothing like a hearty breakfast to make all the other boats envious.

Thanks for all the comments… for those who wanted a bit more detail, Hunters put out a series of instructional videos a few years back. Take a look, for example, at this one featuring Vicki who makes an appearance in the final frame of this video.. th-cam.com/video/U9mSDLxi5Y4/w-d-xo.html

good video, beautiful boat, wonderful scenery

Fascinating! In 1970-71 I owned an ex-Norfolk Broads trailer sailer in Fiji that had been brought to Fiji by an ex-pat. It had the pivoting mast but because it was not much use there I bolted it in place. I also have print of St Benet's Abbey which was painted by Henry Bright, my g -g uncle. I've been to the Broads but unfortunately only briefly.

Wanted to see the cabin......

Nice video 👍

Most charming

An excellent video BUT please could we have some shots of the inside of the boat and it’s layout?

How pleasant!! That was a rental?!

very nice .have been sailing several times on the broads. How many hours running does the elec motor do ....no solar panels etc

1965, a sailing friend together with our two girlfriends, hired a 30+ ft sailing yacht, 'Perfect Lady 3. We'd had experience of dinghies, this was our first 'command'. Driving up to Potter Heigham in my first car, Mk 1 'Frog Eyed Sprite.. No engine on the boat, we had to 'Quant', involving a long heavy pole and ''walking' the boat beneath us. We suffered all the usual disasters, including another boat putting his bowsprit through our cabin, something of a surprise for our girlfriends sitting down below, a mainsail that jammed fully up as we turned into Thurn Dyke, my friend John on the helm not anticipating any problems I might be having with the halyard, allowing the huge boom to swing out to port, it then proceeded to attack a number of boats moored up along the dyke. Wonderfully simple days, the monochrome photos are a small treasure, four fun teenagers, our lives yet unfolded .

It all looks very lovely, different to sailing here in New Zealand. The old wherry and the windmill looked great too.

The swans are obviously spoilt. The first reef in the mains’l seems very shallow to my eye; hardly worth the trouble to set it.

Brilliant!

I hired one of the yachts, like yours with my dad 20 years ago, my first time sailing a large yacht, I was 15 at the time, my dad can't sail but had 2 pretend as we left the boatyard!

Tacking up a Norfolk river is a special art. Get it right and you make amazing progress, get it wrong and you go backwards. Tacking a wherry yacht takes that to the next level!

I was as sad as you must have been when your time on Hustler 3 ended. What a lovely cruise, though! Those cruisers remind me of Arthur Ransame's Hullabaloos -- some things never change, eh? Oh, and one can always identify the lubbers on rented motorboats; they do the unspeakable and keep their fenders out when underway. Shiver me timbers!

That was most enjoyable, I have sailed the Broads when I was younger and that certainly reignited the memory, thank you.

well done for the trip- how come you can't film, lower the mast, go under a bridge and sail at the same time then?

Hi John, just a quick question for you. Do you and your partner have previous experience sailing, or is part of the charter learning how to handle the boat? We've hired motor cruisers on the broads many times, but recently I've begun to wonder about trying sailing. I am however a complete novice!

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I know Alistair because I live in Houston, Texas, USA and he directs the Houston G&S shows every Summer. He's wonderful and funny!