Lancaster – a story of two parts
It’s May and this year that means we’re off again to an IWA Trailboat Rally, which is scheduled to start at the end of the month on the upper reaches of the Lancaster canal,...
Author: BillPerry
The Ward Award – 2019 Photo Competition
As previously announced, the Ward Award Photo competition is being run again this year and we have received over 40 photos for members to vote on. A BIG thank you from the Committee to...
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...
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....