Despite gold medals for British sailors and a claim that Lord Nelson learned
to sail on the Norfolk Broads, they have just been voted “the most boring holiday destination in Britain.”
But I wondered where this claim about Nelson came from, because I don't remember reading about him sailing before he joined the Navy.
Chambers's Journal of 1949 has
Quote:
Nelson, a pupil of the Paston Grammar School, North Walsham, learned the rudiments of seamanship on Barton Broad. Here, as a youngster, he had nearly 600 acres over which to get the feel of his straight keeled lateen.
A National Trust Guide says
'There are those who say that Nelson learned to sail on Horsey Mere'.
Also apparently a board on the harbour’s edge at Burnham Overy Staithe proclaims that it was here that Horatio probably learned
to sail.
Does anyone have any idea where any of this originates?