Here is a link to Chesapeake Light Craft website which gives details on the Peace
Canoe that we are going to the building:
Canoe that we are going to the building:
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 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. Checkout the FdL Public
Library Bookmobile's collection of nautical books and Langdon Divers'
tapes. The Library will sponsor a nautical 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 and the kids' "popsicle stick" boats to the
Big Hole, where food will be available for purchase. At 1:00 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.
(See below to view photos from the first Family/Community Boat Building
Weekend.)
(Also, stay tuned for details and price information on the Peace Canoe,
which will be built this summer.)
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This event is still in the planning
stage.
However, the dates and basic
schedule are not expected to
change.
Stayed tuned for definite
information about activites other
than boat building
and the "on-the-water" parade.
stage.
However, the dates and basic
schedule are not expected to
change.
Stayed tuned for definite
information about activites other
than boat building
and the "on-the-water" parade.
Please submit the form below if you are interested in helping or
want information about our Boat Building Event.
want information about our Boat Building Event.
