Whilst in Boston, USA, Henry Middleton (Trustee) met Grahame Ledson who skippered Boleh from 1963 for 5 years when she was used by the Junior Leaders Regiment of the Royal Engineers for adventure training. Grahame had many anecdotes of his time with Boleh but he remembered how sea friendly she was; an easy motion, helm [...]

We are very pleased to report that the Boleh Trust has started the New Year with generous donations from The Radcliffe Trust and the Support Services and Training Company, Babcock International Group. The grant from the Radcliffe Trust recognises the craft skills used in the restoration of Boleh. We are most grateful for this support.

Click on the image below to see our Christmas ’10 Newsletter: Boleh Christmas newsletter

The last few months of 2010 have been eventful ones for the Boleh Trust. The quality of Richard Uttley’s work has been recognised in the full survey by MARINTEC on completion of the structural repairs, which reported Boleh to be, “in a very sound state“. Very sadly, however, Richard has had to leave us on grounds [...]

Piers Middleton is running the New York Marathon, on 7 November, to raise money for the Boleh Trust. Piers, a first time marathon runner, is hoping to raise as much money as possible to help the Boleh Trust complete the renovation of the historic sail training yacht, Boleh. The Boleh Trust is a charity helping young [...]

The Boleh Trust is very grateful to Livingstone and Company and to Guy and Casper Fithen for very kindly sponsoring a fund raising evening for the Trust at the Travellers Club in September. This event centred on the story of Boleh and our vision for the Boleh Trust – click here to view the presentations [...]

The Boleh Trust has had a busy summer so far:   Richard Uttley and his team of apprentices have made excellent progress over the summer. Jason Rankin, who’s been working on Boleh since the beginning of the project, has prepared a portfolio of his work  that shows how far we’ve come since Boleh arrived in Portsmouth [...]

Many thanks to The Bulldog Trust for their support to the Boleh Trust.

Click on the image below to see the new Boleh Project brochure    Boleh Brochure

We are grateful to the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights who have helped kit-out Boleh’s workshop with new equipment for our apprentices. This has now been installed with a generous discount from Axminster Tools and we are looking forward to continuing our close association with the Shipwrights Company as the restoration proceeds.