2018 Christmas Greetings
As it says in the picture we wish all our viewers, either here on our website and on our Facebook and Twitter pages, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, as we look...
Author: BillPerry
The Keith Hadden Cruise on the B & T
Every couple of years members of the Club get together for a memorial cruise to remember Keith Hadden, our Chairman, who sadly passed away suddenly in 2010. Previous cruises have included a cruise down...
Round in a Circle (well more like a Q if you look in a mirror and stand on your head!)
Having just survived the Beast from the East twins, it was with some trepidation that our boat was de-winterised and even then, the water system wasn’t tested, as the night before we were due...
Seasons Greetings
The Wilderness Boat Owners Club wish all our readers a very Happy Christmas and lots of peaceful cruising in 2018. This photo was taken on 21st December 2010 at Bathpool moorings, near Taunton, on...
Wey hey and off for an Autumn cruise we shall go!
Four boats managed to sync their diaries enough to start planning a 10 day cruise along the River Wey in Surrey and then out on to the Thames. Aiming, river flows permitting, for three...
Finding old content
If you come to this website to have a look around, you many only look at what new content there is available from the front page or notices/slipways selection. It is easy to search...
IWA Trailboat Festival 2017 at Moira Furnace
I’m not sure I should say this as the festival proper doesn’t open till Saturday and there is plenty of time for it to change. BUT its unusual in that the sun has been...
Noyen-sur-Sarthe
A slipway when last used that used to be a Connoisseur base, but they had long since departed. There was no local secure storage but that may have changed with the new business there....
Club Maine Marine, Arnage, River Sarthe
This slipway has been used by a number of WBOC members since 2002 but not recently as the last visit was in 2007. If anyone has used it in the last couple of years...
Moira Furnace Museum – Site slipway
This slipway is accessed from Measham Road, through a normally secured entrance, alongside a building and through a car park, which gives access to the bank of the canal, offside from the Furnace museum...