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Article: EXCURSIONS
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 3, 1994
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Burnham Overy Staithe, in north Norfolk, is one of those
unpretentious dinghy-sailing places where the same families holiday
each summer for generations. At high tide, the tiny harbour is
briefly full of water and clinker boats flit to and fro in the
creek. Children crab off the quay and the ferry does a brisk trade
transporting picnickers to the sandy beach at Scolt Head Island.
Early this morning, the normally sleepy scene will be disturbed
by cars arriving with old baths, wardrobes, oildrums and palletts
lashed to their roof racks. These are the raw materials for
Build-a-Boat day, an annual test of amateur marine ingenuity, when
anyone who ever dreamed of being Robinson Crusoe, is ...