Overwater Marina once again organised and hosted a Quiz Night on Friday 22nd August, 2025, in aid of RNLI, via Audlem Lass, and Overwater Wheelyboat Services. Dave Johnson, the marina manager, did a brilliant job of entertaining everyone with the quiz, raffle and an auction of the larger prizes, ably assisted by Carol and Olive.
The total funds raised for Overwater Wheelyboat was just over £2000 which was gratefully received to help towards the running of our Wheelyboat and Wheelybus. We always aim to allow anyone who would benefit from our trips not to be excluded because of the cost of running the services so we only ask for a donation from passengers and these additional funds are important to that aim.
This is especially so this year as we have had a few significant draws on our funds, with some minor but costly damage to the bodywork on our Wheelybus and the failure of our electric outboard motor on Wheelyboat. It is usually our Wheelybus which consumes the larger part of any expenditure, but the Wheelyboat outboard motor has required an outlay of over £3000. We have always been aware that as the mileages of our vessel and vehicle increased, the running costs would increase, so we have been able to absorb these costs without too much difficulty, but we are very grateful to everyone who took part and contributed in this year's Quiz Night so that we can keep running our trips, mostly to people who rarely get away from their home.
This has been an annual event so we look forward to next year and hope it is as successful for everyone.