Made in Norfolk... The wooden boat setting sail to thrill sailors around the coast |
Now those behind a new Norfolk craft called Windsong hope she might put the county back on the charts and put fresh wind in the sails of its traditional boat building industry, with a new workshop in the village where Nelson was born.
When photographer and sailor Harry Cory Wright came up with the idea of a new wooden sailing boat before Covid hit the coast, his friends at Burnham Overy Staithe soon got the picture.
A Windsong sails on the harbour at Burnham Overy Staithe (Image: Chris Bishop)
Harry Cory Wright on the marshes with one of his cameras (Image: Supplied)
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