America class yachts from gilded age of Broadland

The sweeping lines of the America class yacht are a joy to behold. The charter craft was laying temporarily at the Free Moorings, up river of Wroxham Bridge, with mast scantalised ~ lowered in horizontal position above the cabin roof. She was poised in readiness to 'shoot' the bridge, as old style wherrymen used to say. 

This version of the graceful 43 foot yachts were hand built in 1994 by the reinvigorated Norfolk Broads Yacht Company. However, the original incarnation of the yachts were born and subsequently let from the river banks in Hoveton~Wroxham by talented Mr Ernest Collins, patriarch of the famed boating family over a 100 years ago. 

Chris, Scarlet