The Boat Museum hosted a Model Boat Meet this past weekend.  It was amazing to see the detail put into the model boats. Most of the boats were radio controlled so they not only looked realistic they also operated much like the actual full size boats.  There were tug boats that moved tankers into model docks set up on the canal.  Lifeboats raced around and at one point several tugboats simulated moving one of the larger canal boats into dock. It was estimated they had in the order of 1,200 visitors during the two day event.

On Saturday I visited the museum with two of our grandchildren and our son Bernard.  I showed them some of the restoration work I was doing on the buildings at the museum and gave them a short tour.  I arranged a trip on a canal boat for them which traveled on the canal towards Chester.  It was not a very long trip but the they had a chance to see what it was like to travel by boat on the canal and learn a bit of the canal history.


I worked at the museum Sunday morning helping to park cars.  We had well over 500 visitors and by noon had filled three parking lots.