On our first trip to the Broads in the early '90s, we had a large 10-12 berth cruiser. While crossing Breydon Water in a stiff breeze our engine died and wouldn't restart. We soon became aware that we were drifting sideways, quite fast towards one of the solid channel markers. We had visions of the boat breaking in two if it collided with the marker. Two of us got to the side and used our legs to soften the impact, we still hit quite hard and we sustained no visible damage. Our next problem was, 'would we be left a ground by the receding tide?' Fortunately we managed to restart the engine and get to safety where we phoned for an engineer. (no mobile's in those days) I still shudder to think what would happen if it didn't restart! Thanks for posting, it brought back some wonderful memories.
Watching because we've been reading the Swallows and Amazons books with our children. Currently we are reading Coot Club, and being from America it is wonderful to be able see Norwich and all the places mentioned in the book, which we'd otherwise just have to imagine. Thanks for the great video!
On our first trip to the Broads in the early '90s, we had a large 10-12 berth cruiser. While crossing Breydon Water in a stiff breeze our engine died and wouldn't restart. We soon became aware that we were drifting sideways, quite fast towards one of the solid channel markers.
We had visions of the boat breaking in two if it collided with the marker. Two of us got to the side and used our legs to soften the impact, we still hit quite hard and we sustained no visible damage. Our next problem was, 'would we be left a ground by the receding tide?'
Fortunately we managed to restart the engine and get to safety where we phoned for an engineer. (no mobile's in those days)
I still shudder to think what would happen if it didn't restart!
Thanks for posting, it brought back some wonderful memories.
Golden Gem is a lovely boat, super easy to handle and easy to moor. Loved her
Watching because we've been reading the Swallows and Amazons books with our children. Currently we are reading Coot Club, and being from America it is wonderful to be able see Norwich and all the places mentioned in the book, which we'd otherwise just have to imagine. Thanks for the great video!
Watch the whole film on RUclips for free. BTW I'm from Norwich uk
That was a lovely video, thank you. And I hope that you had a great holiday and the boat was an absolute Gem.
Thank you Andrew very much
Had some good times on the gold gem .plenty of bream been caught from that baby 👍
My 1st time on the broads was 1974. It cost £65 for 5 of us. Wooden broads boat.
Excellent video.
Thank you
Pity they dont build more boats like Gold Gem. Good video, how long were you on the boat for.
19:41, that was the Jubilee Pageant of Broom motor cruisers.
21:08 love the speeded up 'time lapse' footage.
Thank you very much