1890 Salter River Cruiser

• Wood clinker construction
• Built for private use, never in hire
• Large cockpit
• Substantially rebuilt in mid 1980s
• Lifting cabin roof
• New (5ft 6in) bowsprit 2006
• New aero-foil
  rudder 2009
• New 23ft starboard topside hull planking October 2013
• 2007 condition report available

• Fin

• 4hp Mariner outboard (2006)

• Gaff rig
• Mainsail (Jeckells, 2006)
• Jib (Jeckells, 2006)
• Jib stick (2008)
• Mainsail cover (2003)
• River Cruiser Class handicap : 18%

• 2 berths in 1 cabin
• Spirit stove
• Sea toilet (recent, no holding tank)
• Lifting cabin roof

• NONE

• Cockpit awning
• Under boom flat cover (2004)
• Spruce quant pole (2006)

This river cruiser is believed to be the oldest and possibly the only surviving
example of a River Thames cabin sailing yacht. She was built by Salters of Oxford, possibly as late as 1898, but certainly before the disastrous fire which destroyed all of Salters records in 1900 (after that date, the builders name plates were issued with the build year engraved).
Lucy is thought to have been brought to the Broads by road after the war, and at one
time was called Lapwing, but even this may not be her original name. She was discovered as a wreck at Wayford Bridge in 1982 (by a previous owner) and was subsequently restored at Greenway Marine in Loddon.