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• Keeping Your Feet Dry V

  • When
    11 Sep 2026
  •  
    10:00 - 16:30
  • Location
    Fell Foot, Windermere
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  This will be the fifth steamboater training Keeping your Feet Dry event!

  The venue again will be the Fell Foot, the National Trust's place at the southern end of Windermere on (provisionally) Friday 11th September 2026.

  It designed to be inexpensive, will be for a maximum of 12 people and will be highly informative and hands-on, with time on the water and the opportunity enjoy operating small marine steam plants of different kinds.

  It's the ideal starting point if you are thinking of getting a steam boat, or just want to know more and is open to all.

  Registration for trainees will open in Summer 2026.

  Further information here. A risk assessment is available here.

  The handout which was provided at the 2025 event may be downloaded here - we don't foresee any significant changes to it this year.
  

  Registration for boats is open now. Owners of boats participating (Instructors) please register for the event and complete the event declaration form which can be found here. We need at least 4 boats, and the more the better!

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• Lay-up Rally and Supper 2026

  • Start
    09 Oct 2026
  • End
    11 Oct 2026
  • Location
    Royal Windermere Yacht Club

  

  The Lay-up Rally is booked for Friday 10th October to Sunday 12 October. Last year we changed it a bit, and it seemed to work, so the provisional programme will be:
  

  Friday - launch and steam in the North Lake or Bowness Bay. As in previous years, bar snacks will be available at the RWYC in the evening.
  

  Saturday - steam in the South Lake, with lunch at Fell Foot: picnic or pay-as-you-go at the café. Return for the Lay-up Supper at the RWYC in the evening - a menu choice form will be available in due course.

  Sunday - Steam in the North Lake. Visit Windermere Jetty Museum at lunchtime; picnic or pay-as-you-go at the café. Return to the Yacht Club to haul out.

  A brief description of steaming on Windermere for those unfamiliar with the lake can be found here.

  We will not open registration until sometime in the summer, but please enquire if you need any more information.

  Please indicate on the registration form if you expect to go to the cafés - no commitment.
  

  Launching facilities for small boats will be available at RWYC, others can launch at the Ferry Nab. All boats must have a Windermere registration, which can be obtained on-line from the Lake District National Park office in Kendal. It can no longer be bought at the slipway. All boats must submit a declaration, which can be downloaded here.

  Please note the SBA Event Risk Assessment Lay-up 2026.pdf and a new experimental document, the Skippers Safety Briefing.

  Location, launching and mooring information

  Some suggestions for accomodation:

  Accomodation2021.pdf

  For further details, or to express an interest, contact Roger Calvert.
  

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  Key to event types

  1 - SBA Organised Event (owner's declaration required)

  2 - SBA organised participation in 3rd party's event (owner's declaration required)

  In event types 1 and 2 the SBA organisers and SBA members are covered by the SBA Liability Insurance; 
  

  3 - private meeting of members with or without boats

  4 - private, individual participation of members in 3rd party's event

  5 - for information only

  
  
  

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