THE EVENT DESCRIBED BELOW WAS HELD IN 2009.
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ON OUR 2010 BOATBUILDING EVENT!


paddle, power and sail
lake winnebago's

            2009
Family/Community Boat   
Building Festival
 Saturday and Sunday
    June 20 and 21

              at

Fond du Lac's Frazier Point (formerly "Stinky Point")
in Lakeside Park on Saturday from 9:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M.
and, if the boats need finishing touchs, from 9:00 A.M. until
noon on Sunday. Followed immediately by a boat parade
through the park to the "Big Hole". Enjoy lunch there and
then watch the launching of the boats and an
"On-The-Water" boat parade.

The weekend will include building 18' wood canoes from kits.
On Saturday bring a picnic lunch (and purchase a "turtle
sundae on a stick") and enjoy displays of classic and antique
boats and engines, and model boats, including "popsicle
stick" boats built by children at the Children's Museum.
Participate in a nautical swap meet (Sell anything related to
the water, e.g. decoys, fishing lures, boat or engine parts,
etc.) Checkout the FdL Public Library Bookmobile's
collection of nautical books and Langdon Divers' tapes. Also,
the Library will sponsor a craft activity for young children.

On Sunday at 11:45 watch the "Parade of Boats" as we
trailer last season's rowboats and this year's canoes to the
Big Hole to join with the Children 's Museum kids boats. wh
Food will be available for purchase from the Yacht Club.  At
1:30 watch the launching of the boats.  Sunday afternoon
will include face-painting and balloons provided by the
Children's Museum.  Take a boat ride, listen to an Indian
storyteller, watch a water research demonstration, tour the
Yacht Club.

Peace Canoe Kits: The following is price information for the
Peace Canoe, which will be built this summer. The kit and
two paddles cost $395.00. Three kits are still available.






                 














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