Carry on Camping and Canoe building - Friday
At half eight in the morning we met up with Dan and Kenny from Orca Adventures at the Strickland Arms who we followed up to the farm, that we would never have found otherwise, where we would spend the next four days in a barn building our canoes. After some brief introductions and a brew we began cutting out the various sections of our canoe with what would turn out to be the worlds bluntest saw, a nail file would have made a quicker impression on the plywood than our saw did. After about half an hour or so we got another saw and progress increased dramatically. If I was doing this course again, I would probably take more of my own tools, for my own comfort and the knowledge that they would do the job I wanted them too. However, in saying that; only the sharpness of that saw and the countersink bits could really be complained about as the planes and drills were all perfectly usable. After lots of sawing ...
