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Boat Conservation

repair
maintenance

Boat Handling

handling skills tuition
boat movements

Traditional Boat Crafts

painting : ropework
crochet : belts and braces : rag rugs

For more information on Boat Conservation -
For more information on Boat Handling -
For more information on Traditional Boat Crafts -
for details of events see Workshop Diary

Top projects and tasks we need help with now
 
bantam   The 'TLC' project
 

BMS are giving 23 of the boats some tender loving care to improve their condition and arrest the decline.

Work parties are in action every Sunday and Thursday from 10.00am to 4.00pm. A variety of tasks are being undertaken - so PLEASE come along and get involved.

         
     
To volunteer your help please
 
Work on Bantam II started in January          

Boats that are currently having TLC:

Bacup - Leeds and Liverpool Canal motor short boat
Marlyn - A Mersey harbour launch or ‘gig’ boat
Marbury - Wooden horse-drawn ice boat
Aries - Wooden motor narrow boat

Boats that have had the 'treatment' and are looking much better

Aleida I - Iron motor tug used by the Great Ouse Catchment Board
Scorpio - Leeds and Liverpool long canal boat
Bantam II - Bridgewater Canal tug (work complete)

If you want to know more about these boats please look at the Draft boat Interpretation website

 Shad on dry dock
       

The Museum has now started work on Shad. BMS volunteers helped in putting Shad on the dock and storing running gear / shutts that TLC team had asssisted in removing.

The Workshop Diary 2008

Every Sunday and Thursday 10.00am to 4.00pm: TLC project -

 
Gifford and Worcester rotas

Currently we have a one day in every four week rota. With a few extra hands we could move to a one in every six week rota. Duties include general checking of the boats, lighting a fire to keep Gifford aired, removing water from the bilges and general ‘TLC’ Work could be on any day in the week but is currently carried out on Sundays.
Help in the Museum Archive
Changes in staffing mean that additional volunteer help would be most welcome. As little as three or four hours per week would be appreciated


We need a Publicist. Can you help?

BMS badly needs someone to take on the task of  publicising the activities of the society.
We now have this superb new web site – but at present are not very good at telling television companies, newspapers, waterways magazines and other organisations about what we are doing.
In fact, we are very bad at it.

Would you be willing to take on this task?
You would need to develop contacts and make sure that you know what the society is doing, through contact with the committee and the web site.
If you are interested and would like to discuss your ideas,

 
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