OOPS!

The new owner of this Moonraker, having just purchased the craft, was moving it from Wroxham on the Northern Rivers of the Norfolk Broads to Brundell, on the southern waters. This necessitated a passage through Gt. Yarmouth where, as I understand it, having misjudged the tide, the guy caught his radar up on the bridge below Yarmouth yacht station and, If that wasn’t bad enough, his crew member, who was stood on the aft deck at the time, was also swept overboard in to this fast flowing waterway, along with the wheelhouse roof. Luckily he, along with the wheelhouse roof, was fished out. I met the owner involved, and he was only too happy to share his story with us, so I will not embarrass the guy by naming either him or his boat, but I understand he is about to join the M.O.C. and wishes to be known as Max Headroom!    

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