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...
Author: BillPerry
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...
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...
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...
Moira Furnace – Conkers Slipway
This entry has been updated 18/5/2017. (Thanks to Jane Pilgrim for bringing this to my attention) Whilst a search on Google for Conkers produces the following information and address, DO NOT USE IT FOR THE...
A Grand cruise to a little place called London
So it was back three months ago, after all the Christmas decorations were taken down and in the depths and gloom of January, the odd email started to circulate on what about another Easter...
Slipway adjacent to Stoke Bruerne Lock 19
This CRT slipway is normally chained and locked. To use contact CRT. No charge to use the slipway. Water and other facilities are available at the top and bottom of the Stoke Bruerne lock...
Countrywide Cruisers, Brewood
Countrywide Cruisers at Brewood on the Shroppie is only half a day cruise from Hatherton and are friendly and welcoming. A narrow slipway but is an easy reverse, with room to turn at the...
Tired of the Winter Blues?
Want a “virtual” 2 minute 39 second cruise past the moored boats at the 2016 IWA Trailboat Rally on the Chesterfield Canal. It’s almost like being there!! And if you were there, see if...