Building Canoodle in 10 Days

Canoodle Building Log
Its not a typo, Liza picked “Canoodle” as the name for her canoe! Its the Little Kate design by Paul Fisher - there are two versions, MK1 with 27in beam up to 13 stone displacement and Mk2 with 32in beam up to 16 stone. I chose Mk2 because it can carry my two youngest children for the next year or two.

Why build it? A HBBR trip up the Hamble to the Horse and Jockey pub was organised for 28th October. But with 2 bridges to get under and the upper river drying out a few hours after high tide it seemed that MilliBee (http://www.millibee.com/) would get stuck.
Solution: Build a canoe to get to the pub!

For a bit of a challenge I decided to try and build the canoe in 9 days ready for the HBBR trip. In return sponsors would make small donations to the RNLI if she (the canoe) actually floated up the Hamble on 28th October.

You can follow each days progress with a new post.