Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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Howard Bentley - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1963

18 December 09

So here we are sometime in the late 70's, three of us high on Creag Meagaidh on ...

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Simon Waite - Aberdovey, Wales, 1955

18 December 09

I was sent to Aberdovey after pre-sea training and before joining my first ship....

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Roger (Buzzer) Beese - Aberdovey, Wales, 1959

17 December 09

Favorite Time All the time Challenge to obtain the top award Memory of the boys...

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Kay Mayne - Rhowniar, Wales, 1975

16 December 09

I attended Outward Bound at Rhowniar in, I think, 1975. I still have my course r...

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Richard Watchus - Devon on Ashburton, 1965

16 December 09

My Outward Bound experiences have never left me, even though they were long ago....

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Robert Collier - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1954

16 December 09

I will have a stab at rekindling my memories of jan/feb 1954; it was a long time...

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Robert Ian Smart - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1961

15 December 09

As an applicant for position of Midshipman with Alfred Holt & Co of Liverpool I ...

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richard mcconnell - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1965

14 December 09

I attended as a lad and came back as mature young man. I came from a Edinburgh h...

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Hector Cameron - Aberdovey, Wales, 1944

14 December 09

Like many a fourteen year old schoolboy in 1944, I wanted to go to sea - to get ...

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