Anyone recognise this type of cruiser?

[Andrew Denny]

I'm trying to identify this vintage cruiser or its builder. Any idea?

Thanks, Andrew 

[AllanD]

To me, it looks like a Broads Cruiser. 

Is it all wooden construction? 

[Naughty Cal]

More likely from the Thames I would say.

[Andrew Denny]

12 minutes ago, AllanD said:

To me, it looks like a Broads Cruiser. 

Is it all wooden construction? 

It appears to be near the start of this film 

https://www.macearchive.org/films/look-around-12071963-waterways

which has Robert Aickman being interviewed on the Lower Avon in 1963, so I'm guessing it's also on the Lower Avon. 

[Tony Brooks]

I suggest it was built pre or immediately post WW2 and if so it could come from a vast array of builders. This is especially true it it is a wooden hull. I think the only realistic chnace is if its a GRP hull but I very much doubt it is.

[Andrew Denny]

Tony, thanks! It's not vital we know, but I'm wondering if it was a friend of Aickman's who owned it, as Aickman himself seems to have been on it. 

[matty40s]

There are still a couple of these at Sileby Mill on the Soar.

[MtB]

Looks almost identical to my first liveaboard.

 

But on close examination I've decided it's not the same boat. Mine had an almost vertical stempost.