Proposed events for 2014/2015

Jeanette Smith Harrison and Lorna York
on Sculptor at the 2013 Village at War
 event (Photo: Kathryn Dodington)

We need to have Canal & River Trust (as owners) permission to take the boat away from the Museum at Stoke Bruerne as it is an exhibit but we take the view that it needs to be used to help keep it in good order and for the Friends of the Canal Museum who undertake most of the maintenance on Sculptor to understand what things need to be attended to.

Going to these events publicises the boat and it's history (including the working boatmen and women), the work of the Canal & River Trust, the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum and the work of the Friends of the Canal Museum. We won't probably be able to go to all the events listed (they are our 'wish list') but it does show the vitality of the waterways movement these days.

• 02/03/04/05-May - IWA Northampton rally at Braunston
• 24/25/26-May - Crick Boat Show on behalf of CRT
• 13/14/15-June - Stoke Bruerne Canal Family Festival
• 28/29-June - Historic Boats event at Braunston
• 19-July - Cosgrove Festival
• 13/14-September - Stoke Bruerne Village at War weekend
• 26/27/28-September - Blacking and dry docking at Braunston (leave SB 25-Sep AM and return 29-Sep PM)
• 05/06-October - to the bottom of Stoke Bruerne flight for 20 tons of coal - first time loaded since 1988
• During October and November we hope to undertake some trips through to Gayton and back and down to the iron trunk aqueduct to give our crews experience of handling a loaded boat

Struck through text means event completed.

2015 events

• 18-April - trip through the tunnel for Ellesmere Port team
• 22-April - trip to lock 18 to collect timber for Interpretation project
• 22-April - trip through the tunnel on behalf of CRT
• 24-April - CAATs assessments at Gayton
• 02-May - 200th Anniversary of Northampton Arm
• 7-May - Further CAATs assessments 
• 19-May- Filming for BBC4 series on canals
• 23/24/25/26-May - local trips within the Stoke Bruerne area
• Stoke Bruerne Family Festival - 13/14-June
• Braunston Historic event - 27/28-June 
• IWA Festival of the Water - 28/29/30/31-August - Northampton
• Shackerstone Festival 5/6-September
• Village at War - 12/13-September