Re: [bolger] RE: Lifting Tops

On 16/02/2011 21:29, Harry James wrote:
 

Don't forget The Big Six the sequel to Coot Club. I thought the only
Swallows and Amazons on Video

http://www.amazon.com/Swallows-Amazons-Coot-Colin-Baker/dp/B0009WIEJ8/ref=pd_sim_v_2

However I found an old 1977 VHS of Swallows and Amazons

Still better in the books, great way to get children to read.

HJ


The boat used as Teasel in the adaptation of Coot Club is Lullaby from Hunter's Yard - somewhere at my Mum's house there's a photograph of me (aged 10, I think), along with my sisters and some other friends of similar age, posing with the transom of Teasel (as the name is signwritten on to varnished mahogany the easiest way to change it was to replace the whole transom for the duration of filming and put the old one back on afterwards). Quite a lot of it was actually filmed at the yard (the scene at the end that's supposedly in Loudon's Yard (home of the Margoletta) is the one that shows it most clearly, the rest are very creatively shot to make it look like somewhere else).

In an attempt to get vaguely back on topic,http://www.rivercruiser.orgis the website of the River Cruiser Class, which includes a fair proportion of the local yachts (although as the class exists for racing purposes there are plenty of traditional yachts that have never been members). There are some pictures, but not many showing the cabin roof arrangements, as when they're down there's not a lot to see from the outside.http://www.topsail.co.ukis a local broker that normally has a few on their books, and their listings have plenty of pictures.

Dan
Don't forget The Big Six the sequel to Coot Club. I thought the only
Swallows and Amazons on Video

http://www.amazon.com/Swallows-Amazons-Coot-Colin-Baker/dp/B0009WIEJ8/ref=pd_sim_v_2

However I found an old 1977 VHS of Swallows and Amazons

Still better in the books, great way to get children to read.

HJ

On 2/16/2011 11:08 AM, Bob Johnson wrote:
> The lifting top has long been a feature of the traditional Norfolk
> Broads yachts on England's east coast. These charter yachts have been
> around for over a hundred years, and the lifting top with tent is an
> integral feature of most of them. Use Google to find pictures. There
> is one fleet owned by a firm, Hunter's, that still includes many
> original wooden Broads boats.
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> Arthur Ransome's _Coot Club_, by the way, is S&A tale that takes place
> on the Broads and gives a bit of the flavor of cruising on those waters.
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> Bob
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Bob's got there before I could. Hunter's Yard (http://www.huntersyard.co.uk), home to the Norfolk Heritage Fleet is based within walking distance of my house in Ludham. The fleet consists of 14 cabin yachts (13 built by Percy Hunter and his sons between 1932 and 1949, one built by the Trust between 2000 and 2007 to replace a boat that was sold out of the fleet in the 1970s after a gas explosion), they also have half a dozen half decked keelboats - two built by the Hunters and the rest a collection of various one designs (Yare & Bure, Waveney, Rebel, Middle Nene, Norfolk Dinghy). The lifting cabin tops work well (with the provisos that these are boats designed and built for the flat(ish) water of the Broads, and that when the roof is raised they need a heavy canvas cover over the cabin to remain weatherproof).

Dan Burrill

On 16/02/2011 20:08, Bob Johnson wrote:
 

The lifting top has long been a feature of the traditional Norfolk
Broads yachts on England's east coast. These charter yachts have been
around for over a hundred years, and the lifting top with tent is an
integral feature of most of them. Use Google to find pictures. There
is one fleet owned by a firm, Hunter's, that still includes many
original wooden Broads boats.

Arthur Ransome's _Coot Club_, by the way, is S&A tale that takes place
on the Broads and gives a bit of the flavor of cruising on those waters.

Bob


The lifting top has long been a feature of the traditional Norfolk
Broads yachts on England's east coast. These charter yachts have been
around for over a hundred years, and the lifting top with tent is an
integral feature of most of them. Use Google to find pictures. There
is one fleet owned by a firm, Hunter's, that still includes many
original wooden Broads boats.

Arthur Ransome's _Coot Club_, by the way, is S&A tale that takes place
on the Broads and gives a bit of the flavor of cruising on those waters.

Bob