Black Buoy Cruising Club

  • March 2023 work party

    An extended work party with an excellent ploughman’s lunch provided by the Club. Unfortunately the weather did not play ball – too damp and windy for any outside painting and burning the large pile of cut vegetation. At least it was mild. Jobs completed:Cut vegetation from around the entrance gate moved to the bonfire heap;…

  • March 2023 skittles evening

    21 people enjoyed the Skittles evening at Black Buoy with a ‘dark horse’ taking the trophy. Well done Mary! Great evening all round, even the pub bollard plans worked. Lots of interest for the next get together.

  • Christmas Buffet photos

    Over two dozen club members, relatives and friends enjoyed the Christmas bring your own buffet on Saturday 10th December. Thanks to the members who provided the mulled cider, the puddings, the raffle prizes and organised the quiz and games.

  • Christmas Buffet

    As longer term members will know, it has for many years been our tradition to have a formal Christmas Dinner in  the clubhouse, prepared and served by members. Covid stopped that and also as times change there are now no members who felt they wanted to take this huge task on (understandably).  We do however…

  • Bonfire Night 2022

    8 BBCC boats and 1 MWYC boat cruised to the picnic site on Rowington Embankment for our annual Bonfire. Despite wind and showers on Saturday and Sunday morning the evening of the Bonfire was dry and relatively mild, so most boaters stayed the course till ever scrap of wood was gone. Thanks to Steve for…

  • May 2022 Quiz and BBQ

    There were 16 of us (just right) and plenty of food for sharing as well as individuals BBQ food.Well done to all our Quiz participants and the winning Yeomans team ! The evening also included a game of snooker won by John, who played John….in fact we had 5 Johns in attendance.

  • December 2021 work party

    A variety of routine and not so routine tasks were tackled by the two dozen or so members present. For December, it was unusually warm, and more importantly dry. Cleared leaves from veranda roof and gutters. Collected boat name boards from the towing path. Checked tyres on towing path side, two were condemned. Weather cover…

  • November 2021 work party

    October’s work party was attended by 8 members, November’s had over 25 members attending. Was this due to Boats Over (although only affected 3 boats on the work party day), Mirage’s celebratory mince pies, Remembrance Sunday or Nigel’s reminder and list of tasks? A lot of routine maintenance work was undertaken. The new fridge/freezer finally moved to the…

  • August 2021 Work party

    August 2021 Work party

    The final Monday evening work party of the year, as with the evenings drawing in by 9pm there is not much light outside now. Fortunately the rain earlier in the day stopped, so a small number of members were able to undertake outside tasks including grass cutting, weeding, and patio cleaning. Inside, the main room…

  • July 2021 work parties

    July 2021 work parties

    The club site was affected by the heavy rain in the Solihull area on Friday 25th June 2021. The culvert which takes the Cuttle Brook under the canal could not cope with the volume of water, consequently this backup up flooding the lower site including the storage garages. Hence the scheduled July work party and…