Neither of us was laughing when we first saw the cruiser reserved for us to pootle around in on the Norfolk Broads. Even viewed stern-first, it looked huge; and when we stepped aboard and saw how far away the bow was, we were awed. Perched midships behind the wheel, we glided off along the River Bure, ahead of us 200km of waterways winding through Norfolk's flat expanse. We fired up the engine, cast off and began the fraught back-and-forth jiggle to ease out into the river. Fact fileMost amateurs enjoy incident-free holidays cruising the Broads, and so might we, had we chosen a smaller boat.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 19, 2016 23:01 UTC