Tuesday Sailors and what they get up to

It is very gentle (providing the weather and the wind hold). Courses are not complicated. It is an opportunity for members of the Norfolk Punt Club to come out and sail or drift, or stop off and drink tea on a Tuesday evening while the evening light holds.

Firm but kind organisation is provided by the Officer of the Day and there is always a rescue boat at hand in case.

It is a relaxing opportunity to try out a boat that perhaps has not been used for a while. Maybe this is the reason why one crew man was sent aloft. Well done Kyriel

There is no doubt that good weather helps and there is plenty of room both on the pontoon and on the broad.

There isn’t the Sunday scramble in to the tea hut in the hope that the iced cake has not gone.

On the broad most of the hire boats have berthed up for the night – just the occasional person fishing or passing canoeist who wishes it wasn’t quite so far to Barton Staithe.

The silence of the evening may be broken only by the boom of an occasional bittern or the gentle fluttering sound as my drone passes by (most people don’t hear it).

After two races the sun has set, the cold begins to gnaw away at the bones and the call of the local pub/fish and chip shop become irresistible and everyone departs.

See you next week.