Article: EXCURSIONS

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 ...

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