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Aboard Richardson’S Boating Holidays 2018 Brochure and Must-Have Guide to Your Holiday in the Broads National Park Welcome Boating Holidays | 2018 Free Car Parking Welcome Aboard Richardson’s Boating Holidays 2018 Brochure and must-have guide to your holiday in the Broads National Park 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 70 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 Our on-site booking team are highly knowledgeable in all areas of of boats meaning there are boats to suit most tastes and budgets. All of boating holidays and so 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 and see full details choose, it will be the comfortable and reliable home-from-home you are and 360° tours of our cruisers. hoping for. For our loyal customers we have a Loyalty Scheme (see page 37) so Our classic feet boats hire charge starts from only £304 off peak, and that you can save on future holidays with us. We would like to thank you £567 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 2018! price charter (see page 37) 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 on 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 *Selected boats and dates, hire charge only. Subject to availability. Building the future It is an exciting time at Richardson’s as we continue to build new cruisers for our platinum feet (see page 40-49). 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 earned 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. 2017 saw the launch of our most up to date cruiser available for hire, the Commander, 67 years after the frst design and build by Richardson’s. Our newest boat, the Commander. See page 48. Photo by Jodie Downes www.facebook.com/ BoatingHolidays - Like Follow us on Instagram You can view us on Facebook and Join in the for stunning views straight demonstrations and you could win prizes conversation on from the Broads National interiors of our boats in our competitions. Twitter and tell us Park, as well as photos on YouTube. Just go to You may even see your what you think at from special events and www.youtube.com and photos in our 2019 @BroadsBoating more! Find us at type in ‘Richardson’s brochure or featuring @RichardsonsBoatingHolidays Boating’ on our website! 2 Booking Helpline 01692 668979 Contents NATURE & WILDLIFE Britain’s Largest Wetland 28 Nature of the Broads 29 WELCOME Caring for the Broads 32 Richardson’s Boating Holidays 2 Photograph by Emma Davies YOUR RICHARDSON’S BOATING HOLIDAY Richardson’s Map & Marinas 33 HISTORY Choosing Your Boating Holiday 34 The Broads National Park 4 How to Book 36 The History of Richardson’s 5 Great Deals 37 Your Holiday Snapshots 38 THE BROADS NATIONAL PLATINUM FLEET PARK 40 Places to Visit 6 Recommended Routes 17 CLASSIC FLEET 50 THINGS TO DO FAQ’S, TECH TALK Local Attractions 22 Things to Do 24 FAQs 81 Rules of the River 82 Boat Handling Tips 83 Mooring Your Boat 84 Ropes 86 Bridges 87 Our Fair Price Charter OUR BEST PRICE GUARANTEED Journey Times 88 Find out more information on page 45! Visit RichardsonsBoatingHolidays.co.uk to view all our latest offers and sign up to our newsletter. For booking advice please call BOOKING CONDITIONS 01692 668 979 or email 90 [email protected] Book online at www.RichardsonsBoatingHolidays.co.uk 3 The Broads makes up more than 70,000 acres of unique 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 History environment where Norfolk and Suffolk artisans and craftsmen have plied their trades - from farming to peat cutting, fshing to transport. It is the business of the Broads that has shaped the magical waterland which holidaymakers as well as residents enjoy A Brief History today. With the arrival of the early middle ages, much of the national woodland was being cut down to accommodate an increasing of the Broads population, sparking a search for new building materials and fuels - and peat would emerge as a primary heat source. National Park In an enterprise that would last for 200 years, peat became big business. They acquired huge rights to peat-cutting. It’s claimed the monks of St Benet’s Abbey used 200,000 bales of peat a year themselves, and there was also regular trade with conurbations of Norwich and Great Yarmouth. Millions of cubic feet of peat would be dug out of East Norfolk. But as the holes got bigger, the sea levels got higher and water fooded into the diggings. The Broads was born... but it would be another 800 years before its true origins were confrmed 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 was a natural phenomenon. Harvest scene from the 1950’s at Gillingham, Waveney Valley But Dr Lambert had different ideas. Through a series of tests, she established that the Broads had fat beds, vertical sides and pathways running through them - all linked to peat digging. And 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 fndings 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 A proud Pike Fisherman The Wherry Albion Broads Tourism who set the benchmark for a thriving industry which continues in good heart to this day. But the Broads is not just about boats. It contains more than 11,000 wildlife species, including the iconic bittern, swallowtail butterfy 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, pubs and tea-rooms. The Broads now has National Park status and is deservedly a proud member of the National Park family, with all that entails for national, and indeed global, recognition of its unique offering in nature, environment and leisure. The Broads currently attracts eight million visitors a year, Dy Joyce Lambert charting the soil profle contributing almost £570m to the local economy. 4 Booking Helpline 01692 668979 Robert with his frst three boats in 1949 Richardson’s - Where it all began... Robert’s sister, Joy, with Robert Richardson Snr The Story of Richardson’s In 1969 a new company, Aquafbre Ltd, was set up. Mr Richardson owned a 30% share in this company and it started Established for over 70 years, Richardson’s own the largest feet to build fbreglass boats for the feet in Stalham. Eventually he of cruisers on the Broads. Mr R.J Richardson built the business set up his own building operation on the Stalham yard under from scratch and is still involved in the running of the business the name of ‘Horizon Craft’. In 1974, the whole of the Stalham and, despite being 94, he visits the marina at Wroxham everyday. Boatyard, together with the feet of 244 cruisers, was sold to In the last ten years he has handed the reins over to his sons, the Rank Organisation. When the yard was sold, Mr Richardson Paul and Clive. purchased a motor repair garage at Catfeld where he erected a T2 aircraft shed and moved Horizon Craft, his boat building The history of the Richardson Family can be traced back to operation. Horizon Craft built a feet of 46 boats which were let the mid 1800’s when Mr Robert Kemp, Mr Richardson’s Great from the Acle yard in 1977. Great Grandfather, owned and ran a Public House in Oulton Broad named ‘The Lady of the Lake’. A son, also named Robert, In April 1984, Mr Richardson bought the Stalham boatyard back was a boat builder and built Norfolk Wherries. He also owned from Rank. The boats had deteriorated both structurally and the Old Mill House Boatyard where he let a Pleasure Wherry. mechanically and they needed major work.
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