In pictures: Making Waves at event in Welshpool
[gallery] Hundreds of people flocked to an event which saw a canal wharf filled with boats for the first time in years.
A collection of motor cruisers, steam, electric and model boats were on display at the Making Waves event in Welshpool this weekend.
In addition, the two boats of the Welshpool-based Heulwen Trust, which offers canal rides for the disabled, provided public trips through both days. The opening ceremony on Saturday was attended by Russell George, Montgomeryshire AM, and the mayor of Welshpool, Councillor Malcolm Douglass.
Both arrived in the Heulwen Trust's newest boat, Silver Lady.
On the canalside there was a range of stalls and displays, including waterway crafts, blacksmithing, canal ropework, and slaking lime.
Children were also able to try fishing and canoeing, and watch the radio-controlled model boats.
Both days saw a selection of musical entertainers, with an added troupe of morris dancers on Saturday.
Yesterday Day-Star Theatre from Audlem performed a specially-commissioned canal comedy – six characters played by two actors.
Michael Limbrey, chairman of the Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust, said: "The final Making Waves event will be the Montgomery Canal Forum today. We shall be able to review the events of the summer and, more importantly, look to the future to see the benefits of restoring a canal, how the restoration can be taken forward, and what the canal could look like in 15 years' time.
"The Montgomery Canal has so much to offer, to Welshpool and the area, and as an extension of the national waterway network.
"It's special built and natural heritage has survived more than many other lost canals, and as part of the North Wales border waterway network from the World Heritage Site to Newtown it links so many places of interest: stately homes, long-distance footpaths, medieval castles, heritage railways and ancient earthworks."
