Wow, a lot happening this week. Firstly, next Monday showday is a great opportunity for us for fundraising and also the first opportunity to show off the boat to the general public. So, lets update you all on progress of the boat as of today! The canoe is a traditional polynesian shape as you can see from the nose shape in the first image. The second image shows the seat positions in the boat with a full length view. The third image shows Jason demonstrating where the outrigger is to attach and the arm that links the outrigger float to the canoe.
I asked Jason how heavy it was and how difficult was it to turn it over last week and as you can see, he's lifted one end out of its cradle single handed, so there's not too much weight in it.
In all, it looks fantastic and its not that far off being finished, so its back to the funraising funds to finish paying for this one and getting a downpayment on another.
I have to post this image, as I was so relieved when I first saw our boat that it wasn't going to look like this home build!! Hope this doesn't offend the builders and paddlers of the boat in the picture!
Anyway, back to business. Offers for prizes for the chocolate wheel fundraise at next mondays show are coming in which is great. Thanks to those members who made a quick response. The Easter Carnival organisers are kindly allowing us to use their chocolate wheel on the day. We also thought it might be a good opportunity to get a few hats ready to sell, seeing as showday is usually hot and lots of people forget to bring a hat.
So, thinking of merchandising, some of the clubs fantastic artists have been hard at work and this next image is one of George's designs as it will appear on the caps. We've got 4 designs so far and we will post some more as I get them print ready in the next couple of days. Hope you have enjoyed the blog!
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