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The below is an extract from David Kind’s course log book, which he has kindly shared with us. Wed., November 3, 1954The cold shower was over and our…
I was sent to Ullswater by my company The South Western Electricity Board...I was in Scott it was June July 1968...I would be interested in hearing from anyone…
I attended the Outward Bound School at Ullswater in January 1957. It was a requirement by P&O which I hoped to join. There were five of us (I think) who all…
Toughest moments:1. Capsizing of all 6 canoes in moray firth and subsequent rescue,2. Walking across the Highlands with one member with a broken leg,3. Sailing…
I was lucky as I was asked to go on OBC after a few of my fellow apprentices turned down the opportunity; I did have a vague idea of what it was all about and…
I was sent to Aberdovey by Alfred Holts shipping company as a trainee ships steward in 1953.I stayed for 3 months.2 months training in the kitchen and dinning…
Great memories in a splint board going down cliff face.
My name is David Noar. I attended Ullswater Outward Bound School in November 1958. The company I worked for saw fit to send me on the 4 weeks course and I…
I attended the Outward Bound Sea School, Aberdovey on the 139 Course (Fisher Watch) between May 22nd - June 17th 1954 (I was about 16 years of age then) - and…
In1959 the government of Uganda invited employees to enrol as temporary instructors as the Outward Bound School at Loitokitok (Mount Kilimanjaro). There were…
It was a force nine gale in the Irish Sea, waves were crashing over our fibre-glass canoes as we desperately tried to keep them trimmed waves forward. We…
At the end of August 1952 I headed off, at the age of 17, by train from London to attend a month’s course at the Outward Bound Sea School in Aberdovey. I had…
