A trip to Bowness – and a spin on its famous rowing boats for hire

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The hire boats at Bowness on Windermere are the best collection of old-fashioned small timber-built hire rowing boats and motor launches I know of – if you know different, please let me know!

Anyway, in the Lakes on holiday last week, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to take the now-grown-up kids out, and to take some shots. I hope you like them, but I can’t tell you a single useful thing about them…

Oh, and the gorgeous small racing keelboat is a Windermere 17 – they’ve been racing them at Bowness for more than a century. Read about them here.

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