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TheAssociation of Waterways Cruising clubs is awaterway society andumbrella organisation in England, UK. It was founded in the early 1960s by the St Pancras,Dunstable,Uxbridge and Lee and Stort boat clubs as an inter-club scheme for anemergency service for boaters, and for safe overnight moorings.
The Association grew quickly from the original four clubs to eighteen, and it published its first handbook giving club locations and phone numbers. In the late Seventies, there were eighty clubs, and a regional structure was adopted.
Today, the AWCC represents over twenty thousand affiliated boat owners, through their membership of more than a hundred cruising clubs. Theassociation entersconsultations and negotiations withBritish Waterways, theEnvironment Agency and other bodies, and it is an Associate Member of the Parliamentary Waterways Group.
Members of AWCC:
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