Panels!

So, here we are ready to start building Pygmy Cohos in the arts and crafts room of camp. Hopefully the boats will end up looking better than the majority of the craft products that have been produced in this room over the years... Neither of us has any experience building boats, or really doing much of anything involving wood or epoxy or construction. And we aren't exactly using a state-of-the-art workshop facility, so we'll most likely do a fair amount of improvising. But we will be able to borrow a lot of tools (thanks Camp Orkila maintenance crew!) and there are plenty of resources to help us along the way. We're facing a pretty steep learning curve, but research shows that clumsy novices across the country have successfully built beautiful, functional boats, so hopefully we will, too.


We laid all the panels out for our two cohos in arts and crafts. The boats that we will use to paddle the inside passage this next summer! We put some tarps over the drafty doors to hopefully keep some of the heat in over the winter. We also put down old bed sheets to keep everything a little cleaner and hopefully not let errant glitter get epoxied to the boat.