Originally Posted by +8Rich
Bristol's beautiful architecture and churches were built on the back of the slave trade as were many cities delights.

We are lucky to have such beautiful things to inherit and enjoy that are remembered long after the crimes of the time are forgotten.

Enjoy the visual feast of a properly built boats still being used as designed as your offering is but doesn't have to have five folk to launch/recover it innocent

We had a Broom wooden speed boat with a 50 horse Mercury on the back on the Broads back in the Sixties now that was fun and beautifully crafted in their yard in Brundall and just like a Morgan we went along to see it's progress in the yard..


We see the boat you mentioned often as it is a charter vessel for the oppulent to hire or part hire - it's commerce but an ugly plastic lump all the same.

I used to love our family holidays on the Broads in the 60's, my uncle used to knock on the little grubby office door of any boatyard we passed and asked if they would show us round, it fired a lifelong interest in boats, including scratch built models - some of which I still have

Jon M