Category: Events

Events such as historical events, races, exhibitions, processions, regattas and so on.

The Three Rivers Race along the Bure, Ant and Thurne

Three Rivers Race

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Chaos at the Three Rivers Race

The astonishing and often chaotic Navigators Three Rivers Race along the narrow rivers of the Norfolk Broads rivers takes place this year over the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd June.

Running over 50 miles along the Rivers Bure, Ant and Thurne, it makes for an entertaining spectator event with a large variety of boats ranging from Wayfarer dinghies and classic local half-deckers to Thames A Raters and classic gaff-rigged racers built specially for The Broads.

Competitors have to navigate tight broads and open dykes to round large buoys while avoiding other competitors and hire boats travelling in all directions.

Because The Broads are tidal, Continue reading “The Three Rivers Race along the Bure, Ant and Thurne”

262-year old East Indiaman Götheborg returns to London

Götheborg
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Götheborg; sailmaking; ship’s boat; teapot excavated from the wreck of the original ship

A full-scale replica of the Swedish 18th-century East India merchantman Götheborg is scheduled to sail into London with cannons firing on the 19th May 2007. She will stay in London until the 2nd June.

The Götheborg is returning to London 262 years after her original namesake left for Sweden in a dramatic, final voyage that saw the ship wrecked Continue reading “262-year old East Indiaman Götheborg returns to London”

Newson’s builds a competition hydroplane

Hydroplane built at Newson’s

Not yet a classic exactly but part of a grand tradition, this is a hydroplane built by Newson’s for the 2007 OSY400 Hydroplane World Championships, which are to be held on Oulton Broad this year.

OSY400 is a hydroplane class in which the competing boats are powered by a standard Yamato 400cc engine – OSY stands for Outboard Stock Yamato. The little engines develop 33BHP, but the diminunitive plywood and FRP hulls are so well developed that the boats reach astonishing speeds of Continue reading “Newson’s builds a competition hydroplane”