Broads Cruise is back in 2022!
The Hunters Yard ‘Coot Club’ Broads cruise, postponed last year due to Covid, is now to take place next year – July 23-30 2022.
Six of the fleet’s Teasel-style yachts (one actually was the Teasel in the BBC TV adaptation) have been reserved.
Famously engine-less, they now have quiet electric motors to cope with the Broads’ busy traffic.
Contact Neville Khambatta, Tars member and chairman of the Norfolk Heritage Fleet Trust,
on 01692 678263 or info@huntersyard.com.
Meanwhile the yard has been busy refurbishing the sailing dinghy that played Titmouse in the TV adaptations.
As you follow the signs there is a Y +fork and you need the left fork, and the field is on the right (second gap in hedge?). You will see a large blue tent and some S&A pennants.
We start on Friday when you can arrive. Activities available include crossing the Wade, paddling through the backwater weeds, sailing along the creek or in the more open waters o Chichester Harbour. It is a secure site on an almost traffic free peninsular and great for Outlaws. Brilliant woodland for free-range Outlaws, and good coastal walks. We have a bbq on Sat night. Costs have gone up as we have to supply portaloos. Cold outdoor showers available.
Don’t forget to get yourself a permit for the harbour for your craft.
A trail over Pictish Scotland. Bring your car or get to Inverness area by train
Itinery Sat 3rd September
06.35 depart Edinburgh Waverley
10.28 arrive Inverness or Tain
(then car to Inver, near Portmahomack)
12.00 lunch at Inver Restaurant
(then car to Tarbat Discovery Centre)
13.30 Tarbat Discovery Centre
16.15 leave by car for Nigg – Cromarty ferry
17.00 (or thereabouts!) ferry to Cromarty
19.30 dinner at Royal Hotel Cromarty
(then stay overnight in various B&Bs in Cromarty area; (the Royal Hotel is fully booked!)
Sun 4th September
09.00 Groam House Museum, Rosemarkie
12.00 lunch at restaurant to be determined
14.30 depart on Jacobite Rebel for 2 hour Loch Ness cruise
16.30 return to Inverness centre, maybe for a snack
18.57 depart Inverness
22.41 arrive Edinburgh
Chris says:
Join us for a lovely day out floating along the Thames for an hour. We will meet at 10.30 am at the Trout Inn, where cars may be left while we go on the 11 am sailing. (NB there are 2 other Trout Inns nearby so make sure you go to the right one). We will return to the Trout Inn for lunch and then go and have a look round Kelmscott Manor, an Arts & Crafts gem, and maybe finish off with a cream tea.
Brian Hopton has kindly given us permission to read some of the Sparkinson interviews, written by him, Jill Goulder and Paul Crisp, from “Ransome Centre Stage”. We are going to have three different ‘Sparkinsons’ and three interviewees this time.
If you would like to join us and have not already received the Zoom link here it is –
We need figures now as to who might be interested in camping at Holly Howe (Bank Ground Farm, Coniston, LA21 8AA as soon as possible as a deposit for the full amount is required soon if we are to go ahead. Proposed dates, but not yet set in stone are 7-14th August 2023. You may bring your own craft and the less hardy can stay at The B&B or self catering at the Farmhouse itself.
Contact paul-midtars@gmx.co.uk with an expression of interest as soon as you can.
We will meet up at 10.45 am at the hall, which is a mile or two off the M5, the opposite side to Taunton.
Bring food to share – it always turns out to be a feast.
Remember in Peter Duck where he comes aboard with his kitbag with a coat of arms on it? We thought it would be fun to have a go at making our own. Have a look in the book and think about what you would put on yours.
The cost of £6= per adult will be to cover hire of the hall and paper, card , felt tips etc., which will be provided, as will some examples of heraldic designs.
Also bring a favourite passage from one of AR’s books or books about him and read it out to everyone if we have time.
Simon Dell has kindly agreed to do another talk for us, all about the Tavistock Canal. Tars from different regions are very welcome to join us, just let me know so that Susan, the host, will have some idea of numbers to be let in – here is the link –
Diana is busy compiling a quiz based on ‘Picts & Martyrs’, which we hope will give those of us without elephant-like memories more of a chance of getting some questions right, by reading the book again first.
Here is the link if you like to join in, all welcome, but please let me know if you are going to join so that the host has an idea of numbers – thanks.
Time: Nov 25, 2023 03:45 PM London
Passcode: 297872