Swedish Doublender!!

I surveyed this unusual boat at Stalham Staithe today.Originally built as a cargo ship for the Stockholm archipelago in about 1955. A traditional Swedish double-ender whose design is based on the Viking longboat. This example was brought from Sweden to the Norfolk Broads by her current owner five years ago, but she would be equally at home on any inland water or estuary.

With the Vendor at John Williams Yard in Stalham, all going well she will keep the boat on the Broads

Which is the front!!

This was next door at Stalham Museum... 'White Damsel', a Yarmouth Half Decker built by Walter Woods and donated to the Museum by his daughter, a very rare boat.... shame its not being used!

Six Yarmouths were built in all - I suspect all were built before WW1 for members of Great Yarmouth YC - which subsequently merged into NBYC. Number 1 burnt during the war, 2,3 & 5 are sailing, 4 is being slowly killed in the Museum of the Broads! Not a bright way to preserve a boat that could and should be sailing!