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Students renovate workshop for boat restoration

It was a proud moment for students at Acle High School in the heart of the Broads, who for the last six months have turned their hands to renovating a tumble down shed to enable them to restore boats.
On Friday 13 May 30 boys and girls and their teachers celebrated the official opening of the workshop by two of the students involved in the twin projects. Sixteen-year-old Tom Barnes from Wickhampton, who spent 40 hours helping to rebuild the shed, and 12-year-old Daniel Rowe from Halvergate, representing the boat restoration crew, cut the ribbon.

The completion of the shed is a milestone in the school’s boat restoration project which is being financed with a £15,400 grant from the Broads Authority’s Sustainable Development Fund. The project was overseen by ASDAN tutor Jeremy Bryant who has taught the students the practical skills needed as part of a life skills and vocational alternative curriculum. “The students have all worked very hard for two terms, as well as at lunchtimes and after school,” said Mr Bryant. “Tom Barnes and Shane Haines came in over their October half-term holiday to help lay the concrete floor. They have learnt a lot of practical skills such as joinery, carpentry and team building. Now they not only have something to be proud of but we have somewhere we can work on the boats during the winter.” While the shed was being built 12 students have been learning boat building skills by restoring a dinghy and working on a wooden half-decker sailing boat lent by Ludham Bridge boat yard. Supervised by science teacher and sailor Ian Ayres and Technology Technician Jim Bondi they have replaced the floor of the 8ft clinker style dinghy with teak decking donated by Brooms Boats, fitted two stubb keels and recycled the old school tug of war rope into a rubbing strake.v “They have come up with some very good workmanship,” said Mr Bondi. For the future the school has a 22ft wooden Seagull boat bought on Ebay to work on as well as a Mirror dinghy. Several of the students said they had learnt team building and practical skills and the experience had whetted their appetite for boating. Fifteen-year-old Fiona Lee from Freethorpe had painted and put up featheredge boards, broken up pavement slabs and helped lay the shed’s concrete floor. “It has been a very good experience and it’s not something I am going to easily forget,” she said. “It will help my grades and it’s been fun at the same time. I’ve enjoyed learning and understanding how to build things.”

Broom Crown 37

A gorgeous Saturday morning in Brundall........ I was Surveying this Broom Crown 37 Motor Cruiser today......

Brooms produced 83 Crowns

This was an excellent example of this classic, she had been well designed and extremely well constructed. Her interior layout has been very well thought out and had many innovative ideas which helped make use of all the space. Brooms & Sons un-doubtably had some good craftsmen when building her. 

Successor to the successful Continental, the Broom Crown was based on the same hull, but had a restyled superstructure and a significant change to the layout.

Twin v-berths in the forward cabin remains, but the aft cabin enjoys a centreline double, whilst the settee in the saloon continues to provide an extra double berth. All boats continued to feature interior and exterior helms and sliding doors on both sides of the saloon giving access to the side decks.

Later Crowns replaced the longstanding Perkins engines with 148hp Volva Penta TAMD40As or 158hp TAMD40Bs. This one has the original 150HP Perkins HT6.3544'S.

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Sealine S24

Todays job was at Broadland Boat Centre in Brundall Surveying this Sealine S24 Sports Cruiser. Its worth checking out Sealines new website.... and looking at thier new generation of boats, the brand has never been stronger and provides great opportunities for growth in both traditional and new markets. They really are now building exceptional boats...

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Lifting the boat for Survey at Broadland Boat Centre

SEALINE S24 2001- Volvo 170hp diesel, 4 berth, GPS, radar, fish finder, VHF. A clean well presented example of these attractive cruisers. Offers high performance with diesel economy.



The ‘Sealine Owners Club Spain’ (SOCS) third summer cruise July 2010.

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Connoisseur 1230

I spent a day at Norfolk Yacht Agency today in Horning carrying out a Survey on this Connoisseur 1230.
Owned and hired out by the Funnel Group.

Since the early 1990s, Poter & Haylett have been known as Connoisseur Cruisers, named after their most successful classes.The Connoisseur 37 was first produced in 1979, followed in the early 1980s, by the longer 42ft version. The second pairing was produced during 1992 (for the 45ft version) and 1993 for this one ( the 40ft).

A low air draft gives access to the majority of the inland water ways.

All Connoisseurs are designed and built in Wroxham England, with over 40 years experience of both building and operating cruisers..... oooops watch your head!!!


 Good to see that connoisseur cruisers of wroxham are still building hire cruisers for european waterways, here are thier two latest builds........

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