Introducing Derek Gibbs
First sailing on Hickling Broad
Of sisters and parents…
Schooldays
Outward Bound School
Fishing - and a dangerous prank
Origins of HBSC
The Trout
Building the racing punt
Jimmy Turner
Building the clubhouse
Coypu and geese
Crystal clear water in the Broad
Skating and coots
Coot shoots
The farm horses
The plane watcher…
VE Night
Derek’s memories - page 2
DEREK’S MEMORIES:
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George Bishop had a Norfolk Punt called the Trout - Derek recalls that this had a tendency to “submarine” if her nose dug into the water. A quick bail out and off they’d go again!
The Trout was around until 1999.
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