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Naverino of Beccles ; Mr Bonfellow's (of Normandstone, near 

 Lowestoft), Coriander; the Leander of Bungay; Messrs 

 Morgan's Phcenix of Norwich ; Mr Green's Widgeon ; Mr W. 

 Everitt's (of North Cove Hall, near Beccles), Hornet ; Colonel 

 Wilson's Atalanta and Mr Webster's Lotus, both of Beccles ; 

 Admiral Preston's Novelty, but this latter boat was really a 

 nondescript rig and she was subsequently altered to a yawl. 

 There were, of course, many others that unfortunately can- 

 not be called to memory. 



During the forties there were but few cutters built. The 

 most prominent were Mr T. T. Berney's Meteor of Morton 

 (this gentleman was a great supporter of sport in the country, 

 and, it may be added, he was one of the first to start yacht- 

 racing in these waters), Sir William Beauchamp Proctor's Pearl 

 of Hardley, near Loddon, and Mr Burrough's Wallace of Nor- 

 wich, and Captain Coster's Red Lancer. The latter boat was 

 originally named the Kestrel, but she was renamed by her new- 

 owner, who altered and re-rigged her ; but eventually she was 

 sold to that great Norwich celebrity, Mr W. Butcher, who 

 gave her back her original name. 



At this time Colonel Harvey of Thorpe Lodge, a good 

 all-round sportsman, was one of the great supporters of the 

 water frolics, and was often to be seen on the deck of the 

 Augusta, Maria, Phcenix, Queen Mob, or his own boat, the 

 Sylph. The Waterwitch, a sixteen-foot boat, belonging to 

 Mr Robert Etheridge of Thorpe, was one of the startling 

 successes among racers, and the commodious barge, Rob Roy, 

 is worthy of mention, if only for the fact that she was the 

 forerunner of a large class of boats of which more hereafter. 



The Waterwitch was a lateen, designed and built by Mr 

 Etheridge in the year 1818, which date is identified by her 

 subsequent owner Mr P. E. Hansell, who narrates how an 

 old shipwright at Ether idge's boathouses was wont to fix all 

 subsequent events from the origin of her launching " Ter 

 Worterwitch wor lornched the daay Painter " [the celebrated 

 Norfolk pugilist] " fought the Black on Mussel 'eath " [Mouse- 

 hold Heath, near Norwich]. 



