BEALE PARK BOAT SHOW
BOATIFUL BEALE
More boats than ever at this year’s Beale Park Boat Show 8-10 June – see you there
T
here’s always something different at Beale Park – apart from the permanent difference: its own lake, fully used for sailing, rowing and paddling. This year
the difference is simply more boats than ever, migrating from all parts of the country – and from Venice. Venice, via Oxford to be truthful – the City Barge rowing
club will be bringing a fleet of Venetian boats, including three gondolas, downriver to the show, where they will provide rides and demonstrations. The International Boatbuilding Training Centre from
Lowestoft is planning its biggest-ever presence, with 10 or more former students taking mini-pitches to show off their wares, while the IBTC itself is bringing a part-built 23ft (7m) ‘pocket cruiser’, a Maxwell Cutter, which students will be working on during the show. The Boat Building Academy from Lyme Regis will be
there with its big tent and its own pontoon, and up to 10 boats, on the water and ashore, built by its students. James Wharram is bringing his completed Amatasi – the Polynesian-style eco catamaran that won Classic Boat’s design competition in 2010 (CB265). Cornish Crabbers will be showing its new 12ft (3.7m)
Crabber 12. And there’ll be Luggers aplenty – Drascombes from Churchouse Boats; Devon Luggers, as well as Cape Cutters from Honnor Marine, and Deben Luggers from Anglia Yacht Brokerage. A new name to us, Andrew Hall, will be showing a 13ft (4m) skiff with a Stirling engine. Also new to us are PortaBotes – lightweight polypropylene folding boats. If you’d prefer a nesting boat, Nestaway will have its new Trio, a three-piece 16ft (4.9m) ketch-rigged dayboat. Old friends Character Boats, Kittiwake Boats,
Henwood & Dean, Nick Smith and Swallow Boats – with their new, as yet unnamed 15ft (4.6m) sailing canoe – will all be there too. Local lass Gillian Nahum of Henley Sales &
Charter plans to present her usual eclectic mix – and will be throwing open her barn at the far end of the exit drive, with up to a dozen more boats in it. Also opening its barn, as well as having a presence on the show site itself is World
Clockwise from top left: Relaxing on BBA pontoon; Venetian Gondola; Wharram Amatasi; IBTC’s 23ft Maxwell Cutter
of Boats, the new ‘branch’ of the Eyemouth International Sailing Craft Association (EISCA), providing a permanent exhibition, again at the end of the exit drive. Beale is also noted for its friendliness and if you want to
get involved in boating by joining a club, there are plenty to choose from, catering for all tastes. Options include the Thames Traditional Boat Society, the Thames Vintage Boat Club, the Steam Boat Association, the Consuta Trust (one rather special steamboat), the Electric Boat Association, the Dinghy Cruising Association and the Old Gaffers Association. Of course, man cannot live by boats alone, and as well as the beer tent and the catering vans, a trip round the far side of the lake will take you into Kipperland, where Mike Smylie will be smoking up some tasty treats, while Simon and Ann Cooper will be expounding on the sustainable properties of flax nearby. Look out, too, for Dick Wynne’s Lodestar Books in the Marine Village. He specialises in republishing hard-to-find sailing classics – the latest is Ken Duxbury’s delightful ‘Lugworm’ series on exploring the Greek islands and elsewhere in his Drascombe Lugger some 40 years ago. And that, in essence, is what the Beale experience is all about. Sunshine (hopefully), small boats and some water to sail them in. In a word, relaxation. If somebody could bottle it, they’d make a fortune.
Beale Park Boat Show 8-10 June 10am-6pm (5pm Sunday) Tickets: advance/gate Friday £6/£7 Sat/Sun £8/£9 Under 16s FREE (if accompanied) Camping/caravan: £10 per unit per night or duration of tickets
Mooring to the riverbank: pre-booked £10 Directions: Beale Park is near Pangbourne on the A329 off M4, Jct 12
Tel: +44 (0)118 976 7498
www.bealepark
boatshow.co.uk
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