Rescue Wooden Boats

17/10/2026

⛵️ There are not many Sundays left to join us this season.

🪢Kids (and adults) can try their hand at knot tying, net making and fishing 🎣

⚓️We tell the story of Dunkirk veteran local lifeboat Lucy Lavers and share the stories of working boats and lifeboats and the people who built, owned, and crewed them – and conserve our local maritime heritage by doing this.

🦀 There are displays of our fishing and wooden boat building heritage, including crab, whelk, and fishing life and communities. There are a number of fishing artefacts and photographs in the centre which have been lent or given to us.

📽You can watch films that capture the stories of the last generation of fishermen and lifeboat men to use wooden boats.

📚We also have a small display on the history of the Military Camp, where we are based and a small shop selling merchandise, postcards, books, and more.

📅 The Maritime Heritage Centre is open until the end of October on Sundays, 11am - 4pm

📍Find out more and where to find us here
https://www.rescuewoodenboats.com/maritime-heritage-centre-introduction/about-the-maritime-heritage-centre

15/10/2026

⛵️ Join us this weekend on board our unique Dunkirk Little Ship and former locally serving lifeboat Lucy Lavers.

📣You will hear stories of her very first service which was to Dunkirk to help evacuate the trapped troops in 1940, as well as her lifeboat service, her retirement and now her new life afloat, having been found and restored back to her former glory by local charity Rescue Wooden Boats, giving tours in Wells Harbour where she served twice as a lifeboat.

🎣 The tour also includes details of our local fishing heritage and its wooden boats, and the history of Wells Harbour, a historic (since the 14th century) working port which it still is today, and the local RNLI.

🌅Enjoy your journey through the tidal creek past marshes abounding in wildlife to the harbour mouth where you can see expanses of beach sea and sky and possibly sunsets.
On your return, you see magnificent views of the beach huts, the lifeboat station, and of Wells itself.

⚓️You can book the whole boat for a private 90-minute or a 3 hour heritage tour leaving from Wells next the Sea harbour, for up to 12 people, or you can join a public 90-minute long heritage tour.

🎟Find out more and book here 👇
https://www.rescuewoodenboats.com/lucy-lavers/trips-on-Lucy-Lavers

09/10/2026

See films- links below. Crab boat Auk was built as a pleasure boat by David and Tom 2012 - 2015. Crab boats had no plans and were built by eye. The exceptional heritage craftsmanship involved is recorded in the films below:

https://www.rescuewoodenboats.com/films/film-new-crab-boat-auk-january-13

https://www.rescuewoodenboats.com/films/film-update-on-new-crab-boat-auk

https://www.rescuewoodenboats.com/films/film-building-auk

https://www.rescuewoodenboats.com/films/film-fitting-engine-wrongs-on-crab-boat-auk

03/10/2026

👀 Looking for something family-friendly to do on Sunday? Have a wander on the Stiffkey marshes and then a visit to our Maritime Heritage Centre, where you can see and hear the stories of North Norfolks' unique local wooden fishing boats and Dunkirk Little Ship and lifeboat Lucy Lavers 🛟

🕐We are open from 11-4 on Sundays (till the end of October) with lots to see and do, we have a quiz for children, you can learn knot tying and how to mend and make nets and purchase some great merchandise.

💷It's free entry, but any donations are welcomed.

Find us here 👇 https://www.rescuewoodenboats.com/maritime-heritage-centre-introduction/how-to-find-us-1

01/10/2026

⛵️You can book your heritage tour on our beautiful Lucy Lavers, seen below, on our website 👇
www.rescuewoodenboats.com

26/09/2026

⛵️ Join us this SUNDAY 11am-4pm😃

🪢Kids (and adults) can try their hand at knot tying, net making and fishing 🎣

⚓️We tell the story of Dunkirk veteran local lifeboat Lucy Lavers and share the stories of working boats and lifeboats and the people who built, owned, and crewed them – and conserve our local maritime heritage by doing this.

🦀 There are displays of our fishing and wooden boat building heritage, including crab, whelk, and fishing life and communities. There are a number of fishing artefacts and photographs in the centre which have been lent or given to us.

📽You can watch films that capture the stories of the last generation of fishermen and lifeboat men to use wooden boats.

📚We also have a small display on the history of the Military Camp, where we are based and a small shop selling merchandise, postcards, books, and more.

📅 The Maritime Heritage Centre is open until the end of October on Sundays and bank holiday Mondays, 11am - 4pm

📍Find out more and where to find us here
https://www.rescuewoodenboats.com/maritime-heritage-centre-introduction/about-the-maritime-heritage-centre

24/09/2026

⛵️ Enjoy a heritage tour on board our unique Dunkirk Little Ship and former locally serving lifeboat Lucy Lavers.

📣You will hear stories of her very first service which was to Dunkirk to help evacuate the trapped troops in 1940, as well as her lifeboat service, her retirement and now her new life afloat, having been found and restored back to her former glory by local charity Rescue Wooden Boats, giving tours in Wells Harbour where she served twice as a lifeboat.

🎣 The tour also includes details of our local fishing heritage and its wooden boats, and the history of Wells Harbour, a historic (since the 14th century) working port which it still is today, and the local RNLI.

🌅Enjoy your journey through the tidal creek past marshes abounding in wildlife to the harbour mouth where you can see expanses of beach sea and sky and possibly sunsets.
On your return, you see magnificent views of the beach huts, the lifeboat station, and of Wells itself.

⚓️You can book the whole boat for a private 90-minute or a 3 hour heritage tour leaving from Wells next the Sea harbour, for up to 12 people, or you can join a public 90-minute long heritage tour.

🎟Find out more and book here 👇
https://www.rescuewoodenboats.com/lucy-lavers/trips-on-Lucy-Lavers

21/09/2026