Every two years Hobart hosts the Australian Wooden Boat Festival, which showcases lots of wooden boats, large and small. This year our Scouts were invited to come along and build a couple of wooden canoes. These are made from plywood (and the guy running the workshop pre-cuts the pieces for the kids), and then assembled with screws, cable ties (initially), and lots of resin to make them waterproof. Here are a few photos of the first day’s construction efforts. The finished products (not shown) really did float, although they need a little more work to make them reliably seaworthy. It was a great opportunity for the Scouts, who got to do most of the work themselves.
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