UK boating video interview
UK boating has produced a video interview with Paula Syred MD at Fox narrowboats.
East Anglia Daily Times – Charlie Fox
A tribute to Charlie Fox founder of Fox Narrow Boats and narrowboat builder.
ITV 1 Daybreak
Fox Boats featured live on ITV’s daybreak show with ITV’s weather girl Kirsty McCabe.
Charlie Fox – Founder of Fox Boats
Working from a small boatyard in West End, March Charlie built wooden dinghies and hired out rowing boats and canoes. 1973 saw Charlie build his first canal boat and in 1980. He built the marina to the west of March that the company occupy today.
Charlie had a great sense of community and served as a retained fire fighter with Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue service for 25 years and was a recipient of the fire service long and good service medal. While working at the Neale Wade School teaching woodwork during the early 1970’s Charlie taught youngsters to sail at Mepal and ran boatbuilding evening classes at Isle of Ely College, Wisbech.
The waterways were always close to his heart and Charlie worked on various restoration projects including the re-opening of Well Creek Navigation in the 1970’s and dug the winding hole in Whittlesey for the East Anglian Waterways Association in 1993.
Following his retirement from the company in 1997 after handing over the business to his daughters Paula and Tracey, Charlie twice circumnavigated the United Kingdom in his own yacht and sailed a leg on a BT challenge racing yacht from the Canary Islands to England across the notorious Bay of Biscay latterly he extensively cruised the UK inland waterways with his wife Pat on board their Narrowboat.
Visit England top 10 boating holidays
Fox Narrowboats is proud to be mentioned on the official UK tourist website Enjoy England. We are listed as one of the top ten boating holidays companies for exploring England’s waterways. See our boating holiday listing on www.visitengland.com
VisitEngland is the national tourist board for England. Responsible for marketing England to domestic and established overseas markets and for improving England’s tourism product.
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The March Rotary on a day boat
Fox Narrowboats invited the March rotary club on a cruise on one of our day boat hire boats.
A bit about the Rotary
The Rotary is a well established international organisation which brings together business and professionals in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace.
There are 1.2 million members worldwide.
Through responsible leadership the most is made out of every donation thats received coupled good work.
40 years of building narrowboats
Source: Cambs Times 24
Foxboats was featured in the Cambs Times newspaper and website for celebrating their 40th year construction complete narrowboats.
Tracey and Gary were pictured performing a naming ceremony for Platium Fox our latest narrowboat.
Now Foxboats have a complete Enjoy England 5 Star rated narrowboat fleet.
BBC – Fox 40th birthday
Source: BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Foxboats is in the media again, this week talking to Cambridgeshire Radio …
Jane Smith from the Saturday morning show called by our marina to catch up Paula and Tracey who run the family business, but first Carol explained how she copes in the kitchen onboard their narrowboat “Hillpenny”…
Happy 40th to Fox Narrowboats (Mp3)
A Tribute to Charlie Fox
Working from a small boatyard in West End, March Charlie built wooden dinghies and hired out rowing boats and canoes. 1973 saw Charlie build his first canal boat and in 1980 he built the marina to the west of March that the company occupy today.
Charlie had a great sense of community and served as a retained fire fighter with Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue service for 25 years and was a recipient of the fire service long and good service medal. While working at the Neale Wade School teaching woodwork during the early 1970’s Charlie taught youngsters to sail at Mepal and ran boatbuilding evening classes at Isle of Ely College, Wisbech.
The waterways were always close to his heart and Charlie worked on various restoration projects including the re-opening of Well Creek Navigation in the 1970’s and dug the winding hole in Whittlesey for the East Anglian Waterways Association in 1993.
Following his retirement from the company in 1997 after handing over the business to his daughters Paula and Tracey, Charlie twice circumnavigated the United Kingdom in his own yacht and sailed a leg on a BT challenge racing yacht from the Canary Islands to England across the notorious Bay of Biscay latterly he extensively cruised the UK inland waterways with his wife Pat on board their Narrowboat.
