We never touched the TVs. Not the one in the saloon, which rose like a theatre set in the wrong play, nor the dark temptations bolted to each cabin wall. Clean Sweep, a luxury craft to rent by Broom Boats in Norfolk, offers everything, then quietly suggests you want none of it: less screen, more sky.
Broom Boats has been anchored by the Yare in Brundall since 1898, long before pleasure became something you summoned with a swipe. Charles John Broom began with sailing cruisers for gentlemen, launching a hire fleet by 1912. In the interwar years came 30-foot motor cruisers; during the war, Admiralty contracts. Even today, boats are still made by hand beside the Yare — resin in the air, sanders purring over hulls, and fittings laid out in careful order — a tradition adapted to the language of glassfibre and stainless steel.
