My Name is Chris Fittock and I am restoring one of the few remaining wooden Loch Leven trout fishing boats, boat Number 45 (Carole Anne)

Please watch the YouTube video Attached to this page and subscribe to my YouTube channel for updates on her progress.

Presently the boat is making good progress with a target of launching on Conwy River in the Spring of 2026.

To enable me to keep working on the boat and to help with the ever increasing expense of keeping a boat like this on the water, all donations will be gratefully received. 

I would just like to give a huge thank you to all those who have helped me so far and for friends and family for their patience and moral support. I would also like to thank Deganwy Rowers CYC whose members have helped me move the boat on numerous occasions. The boatyard at Waterfront Marine, Port Penrhyn, Bangor for their help in supporting this project, with their skills and knowledge, as well as donations of boat building timber.

Once again, Thank you.

(For clarity the boat did have a number 1 painted on her bow when I bought her, but with more information coming to light I have since found out she was the last wooden boat to be delivered to the fisheries and is officially Boat No 45)