The Story of the Yacht Elver 1930 - Part Two

Travels of the Yacht 'Elver' on the Essex and Suffolk coast

One of a series of films recording the travels of the schooner Elver, her owner V.B. Harrison, crew and guests. Scenes are shot from the Elver including adjustment of sails, sea, waves, buoys, coastline and passing boats, sometimes close enough to see crew in detail. Scenes include: Elver filmed from Elaine; men and women aboard Elaine; the two yachts racing; ships in the Blackwater; a water skier towed behind a motor boat in the scene of the Elver’s dinghy; West Mersea shore seen from the yacht; loading up a car NH9079 after a trip; a paddle steamer and yachts on the River Orwell; sailing into spray in windy weather (causing spots on image); going ashore in the dinghy.

Keywords

Boats; Sailing; Yacht racing; Sea; Romance; Engagement; Fiancee

Intertitles

Intertitles Spelling as it appears on the intertitles Yacht “Elver”. 1930 Part Two “Elver” taken from “Elaine” Whitsuntide by W. Shaw Esq. Here she is in her original fore and aft rig Bill’s party on “Elaine” The future Mrs. Bill The photographer “Elver” drawing up on “Elaine” and passing her Bill: “Get that B---!!! jib hoisted you lubbers look at “Elver” leaving us George and Mac’s week-end The laid-up ships in the Blackwater Easton and Ronald stowing the topsail The “Elver’s” dinghy Mac setting the spinackler [spinnaker] The skipper see’s if all is O.K. George in charge Stowing the foresail West Mersea At the moorings The close of another week-end The trip to Harwich and Ipswich On the “Orwell” Ronald clearing a fouled halyard Back to Mersea in a stiff north wester The crew being real tough Barbara included The dinghy requires extra lashings Going ashore in the dinghy The end of Barbara’s first cruise End of Part Two

Other Places

Harwich, Essex Ipswich, Suffolk

Background Information

Elver - “V.B. Harrison’s wishbone-rigged schooner Elver was built at Lymington in 1923 and was a familiar sight in the Blackwater, with moorings at West Mersea until the 1940s.” John Leather, The Salty Shore, Seafarer Books 2003. A photograph of the yacht refers to Skipper Ron Pullen