Contributions to the Website

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As you can see so far the vast majority of the content published on the site has been provided by Chris Leah AKA the Ashton Boatman as some of you may know him. While his posts are great and personally I think a joy to read we would love to receive contributions from volunteers, members, or even people who aren’t connected to the society yet but have an interesting story or two that is related to wooden boats or the canals.

If anyone is interested in providing contributions whether it be a one off or a regular contribution please get in touch with me at webmaster@wcbs.org.uk or use the contact form below

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Hazel’s Progress Report

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Chris has submitted yet another report this time covering the work done during the winter this brings us almost entirely up to date apart from telling you about the painstaking process of spiking up every bottom board to the garboard strakes, when you have around 90 bottom boards and each one needs two long square nails at 10mm in diameter driving up through three inches of greenheart bottom boards and then through roughly 9 inches of oak it isn’t a quick easy or fun job and that is not including the oil soaked oakum that needs to be wrapped around the nail heads and sandwiched between the bottom boards and the garboard strakes before driving the nails.

You can find his progress report at http://wcbs.org.uk/?page_id=221

A Big Thank you

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A big thank you has to go out to Arthur and his company Benchmaster Limited http://www.benchmaster.co.uk for the regular donations of wood and metal over recent times especially todays donation which left us with a van and a trailer bursting with wood and metal. It is much appreciated.

Introducing Stuart Hughes

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hello

My name is Stuart

I recently joined the WCBS as a member of the team working on Hazel. I  started working on her as soon as she was pulled out in June 2011. Between Chris and Myself, as the 2 full time boat builders, we have the next year to get hazel ready for the next chapter in her life.

previous to the hazel project I lived in America,in the land locked state of Colorado. and previous to that i spent 10 years of my life serving David Moss as his apprentice in traditional wooden boat building.

keep an eye on this spot for regular updates for progress on hazels rebuild.

Cheers,

Stu

January Recycling Trips

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This month has been one of mixed fortunes.

The good is that we had plenty of volunteers turning up on Sunday with a good amount of younger people who we need to get involved as they are the future of the society.

We have also added a new recycling day with a new route which went better than either me or Chris expected.

The bad news is that unfortunately all three trips were in the van as Southam’s engine has decided to stop working and Forget Me Not’s engine isn’t ready yet.

We had a good overall collection amount and now the shop is full to bursting with stock for people to buy and help us with restoring the boats.