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Coracle Making
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Make your own coracle.
29/30/31 May – 3 day course
9:30 am – 5 pm (finish earlier on last day)
With Rebecca Oaks
Bring vegetarian Food to share, drinks provided.
Come and make a hazel frame coracle
and learn to paddle it upon Basho’s pond at beautiful Karuna.
The course is three days during which you will make your own unique boat from a design based on the Irish Boyne coracle. No previous experience necessary.
Make a frame from coppiced hazel poles, cover it with calico, paint it with bitumastic paint, make a paddle and learn to paddle it.
Cost for1 or 2 people making one boat £190 including materials
Booking essential,click here to dowload the booking form
Places are limited to 6 boats
Camping is £5 per night per person
Coracles are traditional fishing boats designed to be light and easy to carry. The one that Rebecca is making is based on the Boyne coracle from Ireland. Traditionally they were covered with an animal hide and waterproofed with tallow, however Rebecca specializes in the ‘vegetarian version’ where the woven hazel frame is covered in calico and painted with bitumen to make it waterproof.
Rebecca is Chair of the Bill Hogarth MBE Memorial Apprenticeship Trust (Coppice Apprenticeships) and Vice chair of the Coppice Association NW, she has been teaching coracle making for 15 years.
THINGS TO BRING
Tools we will be using that you may like to bring:
(these will also be provided but you may have to share).
pinch bar (for making holes in the ground),
bill hook, draw knife, loppers, secateurs,
hand saw, chisel, screwdriver, hand drill, surform, sandpaper, tape measure
workmate, shave horse,
old brushes for bitumen, brush for varnish.
Old clothes, gloves, wellies, waterproofs
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