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Current Status: Awaiting repair and restoration including new internal fittings (cooker, fridge etc).
Olive is named after Ernest Collins' youngest daughter. After a successful conversion, creating the Wherry Yacht 'White Heather' from the wreck of a clinker built yawl, Ernest built Olive with exactly the same interior plans.
This produced a problem with the low bridges at Ludham and Potter Heigham. Olive could just about scrape through Potter Heigham Bridge at the perfect tide, and is no longer taken through. Until it was rebuilt in 1912, Ludham Bridge was completely impossible to pass for Olive.
Olive's quiet electric engine can help with the sailing when the wind becomes less favourable, but you can still give a hand with the quanting if you want. She has plenty of room on her counter-stern deck for sitting, relaxed, as you sail.
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Registered Charity: No. 1096073
http://www.wherry.34sp.com/olive.html
Updated 05/06/2007 by the
WYC Webmaster
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Olive Facts |
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Length: 56ft
Beam: 13ft 9in
Draught: 3ft 6in
Sail Area: 970 sqft
Gross Tonnage: 21.15
Built in 1909 by Ernest Collins
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To learn more about the weights and measures above, the parts of a wherry, or sailing wherries - go to our section About Wherries. |
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