SUNLIT HORIZON from Richardsons of Stalham
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
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A walk around one of the Richardson's hire craft, Sunlit Horizon.
First, some important facts I got wrong in the video. Sunlit Horizon is 38ft long, hence all the room. Sunlit Horizon only sleeps 4...no bed in the saloon, but what a craft she was!
This warts and all personal view of one of Richardson's classic fleet is designed for those who wish to hire her, or those that have and want to see what they're going to get. And in my view, the Sunlit Horizon is value for money and a great craft that sleeps four...and is 38ft long and not the 34ft I state in the video. I hope I do this craft justice, and if you are lucky enough to be holidaying on the Norfolk Broads on Sunlit Horizon, you are sure to have a great time on a great boat. Happy cruising :)
G Eve,New Sub,🎉 we've booked this Boat,on the strength 💪 off your review,we've been hiring boats from Richardsons since the Horizon days in the late 80'S. Just came back a few weeks ago,from a week in Carousel3, however liked the look off this one,Rgds from Steve&Theresa Rainham Essex
We’ve had a few boats from Richardson’s at stalham since 1981.....
good walk round very good exsplanation high 5 boss
the 3 boats you have shown did any of them have a safe because we had Swan radiance last year from Richardson's and it had a safe, that was our very first broads and boating experience we are not going this year but we've book another boat from Richardson's next year and its one of the pet friendly broadsman, do all the Broadsman boats have those reversing cameras and electric mud weights ?
Anthony Parker our Broadsman did not have a safe and nobody brought one to my attention on the Sunlit Horizon or the Commodore. In all the years I have been going I certainly have never experienced any break ins to our craft...that's not to say it doesn't happen, but there are plenty of hiding places on the boats if a safe is not fitted.
I believe the rear view cameras are standard across the Broadsman range...wouldn't consider using it for reversing though as it's very small, however, you get a really good view towards the rear of the boat from the pilots seat. The camera is handy to see if anybody is sitting on the built in seat on the stern. If they are then they are well out of visual sight so that's where the camera comes in handy...and the rear seat on the stern is the best seat in the house if the weather is kind. Electric mud-weights are again standard on the Broadsman. It was my first time with it and found it hard to judge the slack, but enjoyed a very good last night moored just off the main channel on Barton Broad by mud-weight. I think your gonna love Broadsman.
in the 1970s my grandparents had a static caravan which had a bath just like a blue sit in one but theres was white, and my grandfather installed an electric shower as there wasn't one, seeing he was an electrician by trade when he was alive he didn't need to get it all checked and certified as safe, also the caravan site the caravan was on he bought off the farmer as the caravan was already there and it was a new caravan site just being started from scratch with all the sewage pipes water pipes and electric cables, and my grandfather laid all the electric cables for the farmer during our weekends there I would help laying and joining the thick round plastic sewage pipes and fresh water pipes just to keep me out of trouble, during my 6 weeks summer school hols I would be left with the farmer and help him every day and I could either stay in the caravan or sleep in the farmers house so I chose to sleep in the house that way I didn't have to walk down a long lane in the dark down to the caravan site, when all that was completed new caravans would arrive every other day and back then caravans only arrived as standard with fitted gas mantles, so the farmer asked my grandad if he could wire the caravans up for electricity and he did and while he was doing all these caravans he was getting free ground rates and to get everything finished and the site fully operational it took us 3 years and that was to house around 300 caravans which all had to be fully wired for electric which took a bit longer as my grandad had to wire the vans whilst the owners were in situ the good old days I actually enjoyed helping to build a brand new caravan site, and that same site is still going today although it as got a lot bigger and more caravans and lodges and also includes about 3 fishing lakes even though the River Banwy in wales flows at the bottom of the site, even though the caravan site is bigger the original layout still exists even the old toilet/shower block is still in the same place even though its now a brick building rather than a porta cabin type block and the site shop is still in the same place and my grandads old parking spot is still there, and the last photo I saw of the place you could see where our caravan was
Wow, great story. I must pay more attention to what folk write. Thank you for sharing and yes, it is a bit of an odd bath and certainly odd to see one on a boat. But some will choosebthis boat because of the bath and rightly so, it works...and the plumbing probably easier to install when it was new. :)
at the Waveney Centre what do you get included in you your mooring fee as you didn't show it all of the notice board
Good question. We only popped in to have a swim in their heated pool and use the nearby shower block. During the day there was no mooring fees and we wasn't charged to fill up with water, which had to be done on the fuel pump mooring out on the main river as there is no longer a water tap inside the marina at the short stay moorings. There is a charge for overnight moorings but I didn't pay attention to it. Please review their website or give them a call, but I think it wasn't expensive for mooring overnight.