Dick Elder – His tribute
It was with much sadness that the club heard of Dick Elder’s passing early in the Autumn. Dick was long standing boater and member of WBOC. He also acted as a WBOC and trailboat representative...
Author: BillPerry
2013 IWA Trailboat festival at Bodium
The 2013 IWA Trailboat festival took place over the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend. The staging of this successful event involved three principal parties: the local Kent and East Sussex branch of the IWA; the...
Trust open day at the site of the Dutton breach
Jeanne and Derek Smith recently went to the site of the breach at Dutton on the Trent and Mersey canal. Here are some photos Jeanne took at the site. Click on any photo to...
Old and new seen together
Beaver No1 “Tranquility” built around 1978 and the latest Beaver “The Moodle”, which completed fitting out in September, have been seen together on a sunny Autumn morning at Bathpool moorings on the isolated Bridgwater...
Wilderness grandstands at Farnborough airshow
A number of Wilderness boats trailed to the landlocked Basingstoke canal in the week leading up to the public viewing of the Farnborough air show to act as mobile grandstands at the end of...
The Droitwich revisited 10 years on
Back in 2002 three Wilderness boats Arwyn, Bobbles and Tophyl of Taunton, slipped into the centre “in water” bit of Droitwich canal from the Droitwich Canal Trust yard during the 5th annual beer festival,...
Ian Graham’s birthday party
The weekend following the Queen’s Jubilee, 8th – 10th July, saw Ian Graham, the designer, builder, broker and maintainer of Wilderness boats for over five decades, holding a belated 70th birthday party for many...
Stroud on Water – the event – revisited!
Reflections after the event Well the IWA Trailboat festival, which this year was part of the Stroud on Water Jubliee event, is all over for another year. Whilst the weather wasn’t as foul as on the...
Stroud on Water early view of venue
During a visit to Stroud on Monday 14th May, IWA , WBOC, Sea Otter representatives and others had an opportunity to see the work going on on the stretch of canal that will be...
Going around in circles
DAY 1 Waiting for the off for a clockwise trip around the Four Counties Ring starting at the friendly and attractive Stafford boat club site. Two boats Bobbles and Tophyl arrived yesterday and had...