1937 Jack Powles Cruiser

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£35,000

1937 Jack Powles Cruiser

Price:

£35,000

Summary:

Used 1937

Location:

Windsor, Berks

Description:

How lovely to come across a cruiser where the owners have taken the trouble to track the history right back to the nineteen thirties and even more delightful is the fact that she bears the name which she had on her first launch in August 1937. Two friends own this boat and have taken good care of her over their years of ownership. They tell me that they have had loads of fun and the photos clearly show this to be true. Boat History The Port of Yarmouth Appropriation Book shows that Glitterwake was registered on on 11th August 1937 as a motor boat of 10 tons. The Official Number, 164175, is carved into one Glitterwake’s cabin roof timbers. She is also shown in the 1937 Mercantile Navy List as an addition with no details other than her weight.Her first full listing is in the 1938 MNL which shows the owner as John W Eastick of Acle, Norfolk. The details show her to have been built at Wroxham in 1937 and having a length of 31’ 1’’, breadth of 10’ and depth of hold of 4’ 2’’. The engine power is shown as 16 BHP. She is also listed in the 1938 Lloyd’s Register of yachts which shows Jack Powles & Co. as the builder and her engine as a 4-cylinder Wolseley petrol motor.Although Jack Powles built many Star class boats, as they were known, for his hire fleet with a folding canopy wheelhouse typical of many Broads hire cruisers at this time, her name suggests that she was built for a private owner as all the hire boats bore the name Star somewhere in their title.The original owner was a JW Eastick, himself a builder of sailing yachts and a hire fleet owner in Acle where he rented out sailing boats to the general public. Perhaps he fancied a motor cruiser for his own meanderings on the Broads with retirement in mind since just two years after Glitterwake was built she is registered as a houseboat moored on a Powles Staithe with John Eastick recorded as a retired yacht builder.We catch up again in 1947 thanks to the MNL and Lloyds Register at which point Jennie Nichols of Norwich is registered as the owner and the boat has by this time a 6 cylinder Austin engine. Bizarrely Lloyds shows a Mr Clifford W King, also of Norwich as the owner both in 1947 and 1953. Boats can be useful for 'illicit friendships' (pure conjecture on my part).The 1956 Lloyd’s Register shows another change of ownership to Leslie R Roberts, again of Norwich. Ownership changes again in 1964 when the MNL shows the owner as David B Cranmore of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. The Lloyd’s Register of 1964 continues to show the owner as Leslie Roberts but changes to David Cranmore in the 1965 edition.It is assumed that David Cranmore moved Glitterwake to the River Severn as he is a member of the Severn Motor Yacht Club. In 1970 David Cranmore is living in Cardiff and Glitterwake’s home port in the Lloyd’s Register is shown as Lawrenny where there continues to be a Yacht Station on the Carew River, off Milford Haven.The last published in 1976 MNL also shows David Cranmore as the owner and that he is still in Cardiff. Private documents relating to Glitterwake after 1976 provide some information about owners after this date.On 11th June 1977 she was sold to Mr R Johnson of Hoveton, near Wroxham, as “one damaged Motor Yacht Hull Glitterwake”. The bill of sale is signed by T. L. James but there is no address or company stamp so it is not known whether she was on the Broads.Although there is no record of the work carried out, it appears that she was restored by Mr Johnson of Hoveton, Norfolk and that the work was completed by 1979 as she carries the Broads registration number M639. Four years later Glitterwake was sold to a Mr J Smith of Norwich who changed the name to Olly May. Then in the late nineteen eighties the name reverts to Glitterwake under the new ownership of the Cunninghams at which point a BMC 2.5L diesel was installed presumably during the Knights Creek restoration recorded by a plaque in the wheelhouse.A letter dated January 1992 from the NRA (now the EA) refers to an inspection that took place at Bushnell’s boatyard in Wargrave and it appears that she spent at least some time on the Thames during 1991/1992 under the ownership of a Mr. Wagstaffe.A photograph of Glitterwake was included as part of an article by Guy Thomas about the 50th anniversary of Hoseasons holiday company in Motor Boats magazine in December 1994. The article describes Glitterwake as being typical of the cruisers offered for hire on the Broads after World War Two. It also refers to Neil Hunt of Knights Creek boatyard as being responsible for t...

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