Motor boats and racing yachts

[DanTribe]

I was anchored at Branklet watching Burnham Week racing.
A flotilla of about seven 25 /30 ft motor cruisers were heading up river, line astern. A fleet of 25 Squibs then crossed ahead of them in a line.
They all stopped to wait for a gap.
Nobody would have stopped to thank you but it was appreciated.

 

[shanemax]

Are your sure there wasn't a high speed Police boat that you did not notice.

 

[johnalison]

I think that rare events are always worth reporting, to be put in one’s collection of curiosities.

 

[The Q]

Sadly on the broads most of the tourists would be looking for a Brake on the motorboat..

 

[PaulRainbow]

Are your sure there wasn't a high speed Police boat that you did not notice.

Yawn.......

 

[ex-Gladys]

Sadly on the broads most of the tourists would be looking for a Brake on the motorboat..

The last time I was on a Hire boat on the broads, we came through Horning (from Wroxham) on a racing day, with the fleet tacking across the river... The gaggle of hire boats which I collected astern learnt when to slow, and when to go past. It introduced a nice boat handling challenge for them, but they all seemed to "get it".