{"id":21512,"date":"2016-04-08T19:53:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21512"},"modified":"2016-04-08T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:50:00","slug":"canoe-building-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/04\/canoe-building-getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Canoe Building – Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’d come north to the Lake District to attend a canoe building workshop with Orca Adventures<\/a>. We’d booked it months ago and had been looking forward to it for a while. The Lakelander course which we were doing cost \u00a3495 for the three of us. Orca Adventures then supply all of the instruction, all of the materials, all of the tools, and even tea and coffee. All we had to do was turn up with a pencil behind our ear and a mug for our drinks and we get to build our own 14’6″ canoe with room for the three of us.<\/p>\n

We had to meet Dan and Steve who run the course and the others on the course at 8:30am in Great Strickland so had an early start with breakfast and a shower. Rendezvous complete, we followed them along some country lanes to the workshop.<\/p>\n

Cutting Out<\/h2>\n

After a quick introduction, some brief but straight-forward instructions and a coffee we all set to work cutting out sheets of plywood. Everyone seemed to be working well and we were getting on well too. We all did some sawing and were soon onto drilling a few holes which Morgan did. It was pretty chilly in the barn, but the sawing warned us up somewhat and the constant supply of coffee helped too.<\/p>\n\n\t\t