IWA Silver Propeller Challenge

The Inland Waterways Association Silver Propeller Challenge is a project from the IWA to get people and boats to visit as many of the little used areas of the UK’s inland waterways.

What you need to do is visit 20 different places on the LWA list, take a photograph of you and your mode of transport (any type of boat, canoe or paddleboard) at each location, and save all your photos to submit once you’re done. Just ensure your pictures make the location easy to identify.

Everyone who completes the challenge will receive a Silver Propeller Challenge plaque to attach to their vessel. The challenge opened on 1st January 2018 and covers all visits from that date onwards The LWA wants to see evidence of these waterways being used today.

There is more information about how to submit your evidence on the IWA website.

This map is a work in progress and is supported by and supports our Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/silverpropellerchallenge/ where we can help each other complete the challenge.

We have created some interactive maps you can use to find things on the UK river and canal network.

General UK Maps

Canal Ring Maps

Individual Canal Maps

If you would like to support our map building, please follow this link to buy me a coffee, we are NOT trying to make £££ but a few Caffeine boosts would always help.

More points are being added each week, so please come back soon, or feel free to post on our maps Facebook group any places you think we should add.

River/Canal Route Planning

If you are looking for a canal/river route planner, we recommend Canal Plan, we use it to plan our routes, and then once we have a plan our maps are useful to find what else there is on the way

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