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‘Evening, folks.
Does anyone know the colours, and / or description, and / or have photographs of the following boatyard pennants from the 1970s, please:-
Leisuretime Boats, Brundall; Treasure Craft, Brundall and Silver Star Cruisers, Oulton Broad.
Grateful thanks in advance for any information.
Steve.
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Found several on Broadland Memories, will attempt to post.
Admin, if i am breaking any rules, i apologise and feel free to delete.
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Not sure if what you are looking for is there, we found ours, now just have to make it 
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Silver Star Cruisers, always thought that that was the name of a boat that was hired out by Top-Craft.
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Silver Star is shown here as being from TopCraft:
http://www.broads.org.uk/wiki2018/index.php?title=Boat_Details&BoatId=9624&BoatHistory=15335
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Thank you for replies . I am thinking that maybe topcraft had one of their boats with Helmsman and so folk would think it was another yard , they gave the boat name as the yard name . I need to research further . There is a pennant design for this yard . I have many old Blake's and hoseasons brochures and am looking for helmsman ( if there is such a thing)
If anyone is interested , so far I have found 238 boatyards dating from 1947 to 2000.
Many thanks
Maggie xx
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I worked at Fowlers Boatsyard on Oulton Broad at that time and knew Jimmy Topliss well enough to call him a friend. I also knew all the yards around the Broad at that time and whilst I am suitably doddery in my declining years I do remember the boat but I don't remember the yard as anything other than Topcraft. That said, Jimmy might have used the Silver Star name in the first year or so of hiring before he had a yard, mid to late 1960s. Like one or two others he hired a boat out from Oulton Broad Yacht Station using Bradbeers as his agent.
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Yes , I have the Bradbeers pennant , red whale . But any idea who Helmsman were , their logo was a ship wheel . They traded in the 1970's as far as I know .
I keep coming to a dead end but they did advertise 20 + yards on their books .
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Well forum came up trumps . Helmsman started up when bradbeers closed . The yards that didnt transfer to Blake's and hoseasons joined Helmsman . But helmsman only lasted 2 or 3 yrs .
They had about 20 very small yards on their books , some with only one or two boats .
Now I just have to find the pennant colours .
Stay safe
Maggie xx
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Helmsman was very short-lived, pretty sure that it was based in Lowestoft but don't take that as gospel.
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