We would like to welcome you onboard the John Pinkerton II for Easter themed public trips! Our Easter Themed Trips are now fully booked but you can still take a trip on Kitty from Woking or John Pinkerton II from Odiham over the Easter weekend. Just click here to book! Following the news that the […]
Our 12 Man Kitty Boat at Woking: winter maintenance Covid prevented Kitty’s normal return to service around the Easter holiday and she stayed looking rather forlorn under a black tarpaulin until late spring, but passenger trips were able to resume in July and she rapidly became very busy again. Kitty was operational on four days […]
Fencing off the Society land at Odiham The work party has been finishing off the fence along the boundary of the land the society purchased that extends from the Galleon Marine yard downstream to the embankment of the Odiham bypass bridge. We did most of the main run from the Galleon end towards the bypass in […]
First, a massive thank you to the 208 people who made pledges adding up to £14,627 in our crowd funding campaign run for 6 weeks before Christmas. The overall campaign has just about hit halfway, with the amount raised getting close to £100,000 comprising the crowd funding, a grant from the Swire Foundation, grants from local Waitrose branches, a bequest […]
A busy winter season of works is now underway with water levels being reduced ready for the bed re-lining at Crookham Deeps between Chequers bridge and Poulters bridge in Hampshire. You may well see that water levels along the whole of the Hampshire section of the Canal will be reduced for the next few months, […]
The Basingstoke Canal Angling Association (BCAA) was borne out of the amalgamation of 2 associations from Hampshire and Surrey in 1991 and is an association of angling clubs in Hampshire & Surrey that take an interest in fishing the Basingstoke Canal. The BCAA has held and administered the fishing licence for the entire canal since […]
Please donate via our crowdfunding site Entirely run by volunteers The Basingstoke Canal Society has over 1,000 members and is run entirely by volunteers. Kitty, our community trip boat is no exception with a whole band of people giving up their free time to keep her running. Trips on Kitty get a 5* rating on […]
Spring has sprung on us! Our winter works are drawing to a close as I type, with Woodham Locks due to be ready for use by boaters from the 1st April on schedule. Things didn’t go quite so to plan for the new lock gates unfortunately at Deepcut with some issues encountered, which means we […]