The Wirral Model Boat Club

The club was formed by a group of like minded modellers in 1981 and they set up a lease agreement with the council to use part of the lake in Ashton Park for their sailing activities. From small beginnings the club has grown considerably over the 27 years and the activities on the lake bring great pleasure to the members and the visiting public.

 The models vary from radio controlled yachts through scale models of cabin cruisers, warships including submarines and impressive aircraft carriers to tugs and other assorted vessels. On competition days courses are laid out to represent buoyed channels and dock systems. We have even had icebergs with Eskimos and seals basking in the sunlight and tropical islands with working volcanoes.

 The club has over the years helped to raise funds for the R.N.L.I., Claire House and other good causes.

Our display teams have appeared at the International Festival of the Sea in Portsmouth, Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival and Swansea International Marine Model Festival and over many years at The Ellesmere Port Model Boat Convention.

 The tug towing teams appear in venues as far apart as Southend in Essex and Greenock in bonny Scotland and presently are the British Champions in two and three man team towing.

 The main aim of the club is and always has been to encourage others to enjoy the pastime, be it the pleasure of building and sailing the models or just standing in the wonderful surroundings of the park talking about boats and ships in general.