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Royalls Boatyard: April 2015

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Saturday, 11 April 2015. Our biggest news at the moment is that we have one of our superb Alpha 42’s up for sale. Please see the leaflet below or our normal website for specific boat details or contact us on the usual telephone numbers. A rare opportunity to acquire a very nice boat fitted with all the modern aids to navigation. Monday of course was a bank holiday so we thought it about time to drag Sara’s sawn off (mast sawn off! Rackheath control tower restored. This visit reminds me of a B24 Load Adju...

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Royalls Boatyard: November 2014

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Saturday, 22 November 2014. Start of the winter work. ROYALL STUART, or what's left of her! OAK up on the slipway. Pleasure wherry SOLACE having her roof repainted in undercoat and mast oiled. How most of the old wherries ended  their days by W L Rackham. Replacing worn or faded carpet,. Uncle Pete to visit to lay heavy duty lino in several of the boats, similar to that we used on SWAN,. Overhaul the engines and stern gear, ie the rudder and propeller,. 8220;OK, but why didn't you give us a shout and we ...

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Royalls Boatyard: December 2014

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Tuesday, 30 December 2014. A visit to the most secret place in Britain. Apologies, this is not a boating blog, this is somewhere I have long wanted to visit and hopefully it may interest some one, though Sara is somewhat sceptical. A couple of boating blogs will  I promise follow shortly. This then, during that far of summer of 1916 was the most secret area of land, if not just in Britain then probably the whole world, it is where the first ever tank crews were trained in their machines before embarking ...

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Royalls Boatyard: September 2014

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Tuesday, 30 September 2014. Afloat again with George Herbert (& Ted ) part 6. Sunday 6th July 2014. The crew (including us gnomes who were very surprisingly allowed to stay on board on our own all weekend) sit huddled on the settles as the rain rattles on the roof. PL2 is moored in the Isolation Hospital dyke at Wayford waiting for a lull in the weather to replenish our water and petrol tanks and move away down river. Whilst we wait the skipper tells us this story;. The only surviving piece of ARCADIA.

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Royalls Boatyard: June 2015

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Thursday, 25 June 2015. Ted is about to go on his holidays, he thinks that he is going on SWAN but we are not so sure! Derek having just caught a fish for tonight's tea off the RETREAT's quay heading, strangely enough a short time later he also caught a metal baking tray to cook it in.. Derek and Margaret hoping to get another one.. GENEVIEVE's bottom.. Steve has done a good job of replanking GENEVIEVE, just the other side to go now.. Posted by Royalls Boatyard. Saturday, 20 June 2015. Meanwhile over...

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Royalls Boatyard: March 2014

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Sunday, 23 March 2014. To the Wherry Graveyard. Considering that the wherries were quite old even at the time of their scuttling by filling them with mud dredging from the channel until they sank, they are in remarkable condition and well worth a visit, particularly at times of low water levels. LEVERET was owned by William England, the Norwich coal merchant and was skippered, according to an 1881 census by the afore mentioned Uncle Billy Royall (known as Towzer), at some point he was joined by his nephe...

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Royalls Boatyard: July 2014

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Thursday, 31 July 2014. Afloat again with George Herbert (& Ted) Part 4. Wednesday 2nd July 2014. Another nice morning, Ted has risen early to sort through his fishing rods stowed on the roof, suddenly with a clattering, a thump and a cloud of soot he falls down the chimney stove pipe. The owner retrieves him from inside the wood burner chastened and black, thank goodness it wasn’t lit. A little hump back bridge crosses the mill drain, the crew pausing to admire the converted Martham mill hidden away amo...

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Royalls Boatyard: MID SUMMER MARDLE

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Thursday, 25 June 2015. Ted is about to go on his holidays, he thinks that he is going on SWAN but we are not so sure! Derek having just caught a fish for tonight's tea off the RETREAT's quay heading, strangely enough a short time later he also caught a metal baking tray to cook it in.. Derek and Margaret hoping to get another one.. GENEVIEVE's bottom.. Steve has done a good job of replanking GENEVIEVE, just the other side to go now.. Posted by Royalls Boatyard. 21 September 2015 at 13:54. Welcome to...

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Royalls Boatyard: May 2014

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Friday, 9 May 2014. The Broadland travels of George Herbert the Gnome. It is still sunny but lower down river noticeably windier and the few early yachts about are heeling their decks under. I have some sympathy for their masts and must say I do not envy them one bit my time with all that being long done with. What on earth is that bird? The bottom of one is reasonably intact but unfortunately it looks as though someone has had a small bonfire and burnt all the planks, decks and coamings, such as they we...