The Association of Waterways Cruising clubs is a waterway society and umbrella 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 an emergency 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. The association enters consultations and negotiations with British Waterways, the Environment Agency and other bodies, and it is an Associate Member of the Parliamentary Waterways Group.
Members of AWCC:
Airedale Boat Club, Ash Tree Boat Club, Ashby Canal Association, Aylesbury Canal SocietyBasingstoke Canal Boating Club, Black Buoy Cruising Club, Boaters Christian Fellowship, Bridgewater Motor Boat Club, Byfleet Boat ClubCoombeswood Canal Trust, Coventry Canal Society, Cutweb Internet Boating ClubDerby Motor Boat ClubElectric Boat AssociationLichfield Cruising Club, Lincoln Boat Club, Longwood Boat Club, Lymm Cruising ClubMersey Motor Boat ClubNorbury Cruising Club, North Cheshire Cruising ClubOundle Cruising ClubPeterborough Yacht Club, Pewsey Wharf Boat ClubRammey Marsh Cruising ClubSale Cruising Club, Saul Junction Boat Owners Club, Sea Otter Owners Club, Soar Boating Club, South Pennine Boat Club, Stafford Boat Club, St Pancras Cruising Club, Seamaster Club, Strawberry Island Boat ClubTamworth Cruising ClubWatch House Cruising Club, Waterway Recovery Group Cruising Club, West London Motor Cruising Club, Wheelton Boat Club, Wilderness Boat Owners Club