As always, there’s something for everyone at the annual, award-winning Rickmansworth Festival this weekend.

Whether you’re into planes, live music, crafts, boats, boats or boats, you’re in luck at this much-loved community festival that concludes Ricky Week every year in May and has, in the past, attracted more than 20,000 visitors.

The top attraction for many is the wonderful array of canal boats from across the country – a terrific spectacle with at least 100 craft of many types and histories moored along the towpath up to four deep. You can enjoy trips along the canal, model boats, a working canal system, not to mention a canal boat tug-of-war.

But as well as boats, there will be a Battle of Britain memorial flight Spitfire flypast, live music and entertainment, a wide range of craft and trade stalls, a children’s farm, a working boat horse from Chiltern Open Air Museum, a Medieval living history display, a dog show, a RNLI duck race on the River Colne, an environmental fair from Three Rivers District Council, displays and demonstrations from local charities, catering, a licensed bar and a funfair.

  • Rickmansworth Festival takes place at Rickmansworth Aquadrome and on the canal towpath between Batchworth and Stocker’s Locks on Saturday, May 16 from 10.30am to 10.30pm, and Sunday, May 17 from 10.40am to 5.30pm. Details: rwt.org.uk