Name Evening Flight

Previous names

1939 - 1946 Mi' Lady
1946 - 1962 Amanda

Certificate no 1940

Status Registered

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Evening Flight on a mooring, port side view

Evening Flight out the water - port side view

Evening Flight under sail - starboard side view

Details

Function Leisure Craft

Subfunction Yacht

Location Oulton Broad

Vessel type Broads Sailing Cruiser

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Info required No

Construction

Builder Wood, Herbert, Potter Heigham

Built in 1939

Hull material Wood

Rig Sloop

Number of decks 1

Number of masts 1

Propulsion Sail

Primary engine type Unknown

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

8.15 feet (2.49 m)

Depth

4.30 feet (1.31 m)

Length: Overall

36.00 feet (10.98 m)

Tonnage: Gross

0.00

Air Draft

To be confirmed

History

Herbert Woods, the owner of the largest boatyard on the Norfolk Broads at that time, built EVENING FLIGHT for his personal use. She was to be his last large Broads sailing cruiser and was launched in 1939 under the name MI’LADY. She is arguably his prettiest vessel and the crack yacht of her day. She is the only large Broads sailing cruiser not to have been ‘improved’ and the influence of Uffa Fox on the three times diamond rigged fifty foot mast is apparent. EVENING FLIGHT has always been a private Broads yacht, barring a short period during the Second World War when she was used by her owner at Bourne End.

Sources

Classic Boat: Non-stop conservation at Excelsior Yard, February Edition 273, 2011

Key dates

1939
Built by Herbert Woods of Broads Haven, Potter Heigham, Norfolk as a Sailing Cruiser to replace ‘Ladybird’. Named ‘MiLady’ and raced in Oulton Week and sold to Mr Simmons of Simmons Air Fastenings Ltd.
1946
Acquired by John and Joey Arrow of London as a Faster replacement for their previous Broads cruiser ‘Forester’ and renamed ‘Amanda’
1952
New owner
1959
New owner
1962
New owner
1987
Sold to present owner and he carried out extensive maintenance work