All Weather River Cruiser

A page has been added describing a the last remaining Safari in the hire fleet of Richardson's of Stalham .

This is an interesting boat as it is probably the oldest Safari examined in detail on the site, an early MkI boat. It lacks the shelf, part of the superstructure moulding beneath the ...

We now have photographs of a Dawn-Craft Variant fitted out with twin berths in the aft cabin. The descriptions of the other two examples on the page have also been updated with further photographs added.

The description of the "standard" Dawn-Craft Built Boat has also been updated as it appears ...

In the the Hampton section the Company History page has corrections to the text and new information added.

The Forum section bug that prevented the new menu system, introduced yesterday, from displaying correctly has been found and corrected.

Across the site (except on the Forum page) there's a minor renaming of pages on the main navigation menu which now also includes drop-down sub-menus to allow faster navigation to more pages.

In the Hampton section of the site the Hampton MkI and MkII page now includes photos showing the difference ...

The Safari MkIV page has new information and a photograph of the first MkIV boat built, about which there remains some mystery.

A collection of 25 images of a MkIV Boat now appear on a new page together with a commentary on what they reveal about the boat..

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There's now a lot more information on the site about the Picnic boats built by L.H Jones.
In particular, there are photographs of the boats Snapdragon and Leda, including their engine bays linked from the Picnic Boat page.

Since the site rebuild reported a month ago a number of broken links have been found and corrected.

The opportunity has been taken to make minor improvements to the text and move some of the content around to reflect more accurately the separation of the content about Hampton Boats Ltd and the ...

There's been a major rebuild of the site.

Two of main menu options have changed BUILDERS and THE BOATS.

This underpins a change in the arrangement of site content which now focuses on distinguishing Alec Hampton's design for the Safari25 and its four Marks with the various builders that each ...

Research into Dawn-Craft has progressed. The information on how it should be spelled has been updated, hopefully removing any confusion with Dawncraft (the Kinver-based company). Most of the new information is now available on the Dawn-Craft Company page.
Other pages with minor edits that reflect ...

The Development Page now includes an image taken from the Blakes catalogue of 1969 and one of a Thames-based hire fleet. The text has been updated to include confirmation of the earliest boats in Hampton's hire fleet and that a Thames-based fleet continues to offer MkI Safaris for hire. There is ...