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Richardson's Day Boats RICHARDSON’S Boating Holidays - in the Broads National Park - Welcome Aboard Richardson’s Boating Holidays 2020 brochure and must-have guide to your boating holiday! 2020 Price Freeze! One thing you can be certain of, our lowest price guaranteed. * RICHARDSON’S YERS OF7 FMILY5 HOLIYS 19 2019 Welcome Richardson’s has helped visitors experience the best of the Broads for manual are given to all customers. We also have team members on call more than 75 years. With a marina based at Stalham, Richardson’s has should anyone need assistance. around 300 boats making us the largest operator in the Broads National Park. What makes us unique is the fact that we have the largest range of Our on-site booking team are highly knowledgeable in all areas of boats meaning there are cruisers to suit most tastes and budgets. All of boating holidays and are always happy to help you choose the right our boats are maintained to the highest standard, so whichever boat you holiday for you. You can also book your holiday online where you can choose, it will be the comfortable and reliable home-from-home you are see full details and 360° tours of our cruisers. hoping for. For our loyal customers we have a Loyalty Scheme (see page 41) so Our classic fleet boats hire charge starts from only £319 off peak, and that you can save on future holidays with us. We would like to thank you £595 in peak summer holidays from 7 nights*. We also have our fair for your interest in our boating holidays and hope to see you in 2020! price charter (see page 39) so you can book your chosen boating holiday as early as you like and know you will never lose out on price. The great thing about a Richardson’s boating holiday in the Broads is that you can take things at your own pace. You also don’t need any experience. When you arrive at Richardson’s we will give you a full demonstration on how to drive the boat and instructions on all the facilities on board. Buoyancy aids and a full information and safety Building the future It is an exciting time at Richardson’s as we continue to build new cruisers for our platinum fleet (see page 44-53). All of these cruisers feature the low wash hull we designed to help with conservation. This, together with the use of solar panels and other conservation work, has earnt us Silver Grading in the Green Tourism Business Scheme. We are proud to be looking after our unique environment. Our team work very hard developing new cruisers only available to hire from Richardson’s. 2019 saw the launch of our most up to date cruiser available for hire, the Commander 7, 69 years after the first design and build by Richardson’s. Image courtesy of the Broads Authority Front Cover: Kingfisher image courtesy of the Broads Authority www.facebook.com/ You can view Follow us on Instagram BoatingHolidays - Like us Join the demonstrations for stunning views straight on Facebook and you conversation and interiors of our from the Broads National could win prizes in our on Twitter and boats on YouTube. Park, as well as photos competitions. You may tell us what Just go to from events and more! even see your photos in you think at www.youtube.com Find us at our 2021 brochure or @BroadsBoating and type in @RichardsonsBoatingHolidays featuring on our website! ‘Richardson’s Boating’ 2 Booking Helpline 01692 668979 Contents Nature & Wildlife Britain’s Largest Wetland 28 Nature of the Broads 29 Welcome Caring of the Broads 32 Richardson’s Boating Holidays 2 Photo by Emma Davies Your Richardson’s Boating Holiday Richardson’s Map & Marinas 33 History Boat Building is in the Blood 34 The Broads National Park 4 Meet ‘R’ Team 35 Choosing Your Boating Holiday 38 How to Book 40 Great Deals 41 Your Holiday Snapshots 42 The Broads National Park 5 Platinum Fleet 44 Places to Visit 6 Recommended Routes 17 Classic Fleet 56 Things To Do Local Attractions 22 FAQ’s & Tech Talk Things to Do 24 FAQ’s 84 Rules of the River 85 Boat Handling Tips 86 Mooring Your Boat 87 Ropes 89 Bridges 90 Our Fair Price Charter Journey Times 91 ONE THING YOU CAN BE CERTAIN OF, OUR BEST PRICE GUARANTEED Richardson’s Find out more on page 41! Fair Price 92 Day Boats 93 Visit www.RichardsonsBoatingHolidays.co.uk Charter to view all our latest offers and sign up to Hemsby Beach Holiday Park 94 our newsletter. Richardson’s Family Entertainment Centre 96 2020 Prize Freeze The Yacht Club Leisure Complex 97 2020 holiday prices frozen at 2019 holiday brochure prices.* *2020 price freeze. All holiday prices the same as 2019 holiday brochure prices. Booking Conditions 98 Excluding Commander and Commodore classes. Book online at www.RichardsonsBoatingHolidays.co.uk 3 A Brief History History of the Broads The Broads makes up more than 70,000 acres of unique National Park landscape, a waterland landscape, forged over hundreds of years by man’s activities, that has entranced visitors and residents for generations. The Broads has always been a place of business, a working environment where Norfolk and Suffolk artisans and craftsmen have plied their trades - from farming to peat cutting, fishing to transport. It is the business of the Broads that has shaped the magical waterland which holidaymakers as well as residents enjoy today. With the arrival of the early middle ages, much of the national woodland was being cut down to accommodate an increasing Dr Joyce Lambert charting the soil profile population, sparking a search for new building materials and fuels - and peat would emerge as a primary heat source. The Broads was born... but it would be another 800 years before its true origins were confirmed. Academic Dr Joyce Lambert had been publishing research on the Broads since the end of the Second World War. Then, in 1952, a colleague, JN Jennings published “Origins of the Broads” in which he claimed that the Broads were a natural phenomenon. But Dr Lambert had different ideas. Through a series of tests, she established that the Broads had flat beds, vertical sides and pathways running through them - all linked to peat digging. Harvest scene from the 1950’s at Gillingham, Waveney Valley She won the water wars - the Broads was man-made! But already the Broads had become a playground for holidaymakers across Britain, all drawn by the romance of a week on the water, an idyll fanned by tales such as Arthur Ransome’s “Swallows and Amazons”, published in 1930. By the time of Dr Lambert’s controversial findings a small group of able and ambitious entrepreneurs were carving out successful businesses built around boating on the broads. These include the Blakes, Jimmy Hoseason and Robert Richardson, pioneers of which continues in good heart to this day. Broads Tourism who set the benchmark for a thriving industry. But the Broads is not just about boats. It contains more than 11,000 wildlife species, including the iconic Bittern, Swallowtail A proud Pike Fisherman The Wherry Albion Butterfly and Otters. It also offers miles of walkways, footpaths and trails as well as many cycle routes. And servicing the busy tourist trade is a cross-section of quality hotels, restaurants, In an enterprise that would last for 200 years, peat became pubs and tea-rooms. big business. Huge rights to peating cutting were acquired. It’s claimed the monks of St Benet’s Abbey used 200,000 bales of The Broads now has National Park status and is deservedly a peat a year themselves, and there was also regular trade with proud member of the National Park family, with all that entails conurbations of Norwich and Great Yarmouth. Millions of cubic for national, and indeed global, recognition of its unique offering feet of peat would be dug out of East Norfolk. But as the holes in nature, environment and leisure. got bigger and sea levels got higher, water flooded into the diggings. The Broads currently attracts eight million visitors a year, contributing almost £570m to the local economy. 4 Booking Helpline 01692 668979 The Broads National Park Serene waters, wonderful wildlife and miles and miles of lock-free navigation… welcome to the Broads National Park! That’s not all these unique wetlands have to offer, from a fantastic selection of eateries and an amazing choice of day attractions and nature reserves, beauty spots and a different pace of life. Here, we’ll give you a taste of what the Broads National Park is all about… Book online at www.RichardsonsBoatingHolidays.co.uk 5 Places to Visit Find a peaceful mooring spot, with access by foot, bike or canoe to calming countryside scenery, a nearby village and some unique wildlife – you’ve arrived on the Broads! With over 125 miles of lock- free navigation, your Broads holiday can be as varied as you like, from popular destinations like Acle and Wroxham to the less travelled river featuring wild moorings and still waters. Read on to find out more about places to visit in the Broads National Park… Acle A pretty village that’s a popular stop for boating holidaymakers on their way down the River Bure to Great Yarmouth and over Breydon Water to the Southern Broads. Mooring Relaxed, ample mooring at Acle Bridge along a long stretch of river bank. Leisure Take a mile long walk into Acle along a pleasant roadside path teeming with insect life in the summer. A good place for walking, with Acle being one of the gateways to the North Burlingham woodland walks, the fruits of a 20-year project with picturesque footpaths – some accessible to disabled people – through woods, orchards and open fields, including a sundial trail.
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