East Anglian film archive

[neil]

some interesting stuff here


The Broads Remembered by Nat Bircham: http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/439

Maninngtree Regatta in the early 1970s: http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/856

[rme_01]

Thanks for posting this - the film of the punt racing at Maninngtree was fascinating. Do you know whether this still takes place anywhere?

Robert

[Ed]

Yes, those punts are just lovely....

I wonder if there are any of those left about.

cheers

eib

[billytwiglet]

spot the star keelboat near the end of the first film

[Fantasia]

Thank you for the introduction to the EAFA, it has some fab footage.

[neil]

2:34 into 'The Broads Remembered' is where I used to live.

[PeterV]

If you go to 'Intheboatshed.net' you can see two new built duck punts sailing with optimist rigs, and if you follow the links to Dylan Winters site you can find the plans to build one yourself. An idea winter CVRDA challenge, can we have more duck punts than Minisails on the water next year?

[webmuppet]

Thanks for posting this - the film of the punt racing at Maninngtree was fascinating. Do you know whether this still takes place anywhere?

Robert

There's not much dinghy sailing at Stour SC anymore - it's a lovely pace to sail and I crewed for a mate of mine there at this years Regatta. The sailing punts are still sailed, mostly by members of one family using a variety of cut-down sails from other craft (I think one was using a Topper sail) - they are very nimble things and great to watch, they don't have a rudder and are steered by an oar. I don't think that the punts are involved in any of the racing at Manningtree but they sail fairly regularly. I'm hoping to join the club in the summer as it's just down the road (20 minutes ish) away from Alton Water where I normally sail.

Cheers,

Nigel (the other one)