Song of the Paddle Big Meet

Last weekend Mike from the Stockport branch and Pete from the Carlisle met up with about 150 members of the Song of the Paddle online forum to help at their "big meet" based on our local lake - Ullswater.

Along with Gatz, Mad River Canoes, and Our own Mohawk Brands we also took some Wenonah and Novacraft canoes for members to try out over a wet and windy weekend. All the boats got on the water. we also had a mix of paddles to try including our excellent Mitchell white water paddles which provedmore than capable of getting even the biggest canoes moving into the strong headwinds.

We were based at Waterside Farm, and basically took over their best field right on the lakeshore, with a mixture of teepees, and lightweight backpacking tents.... everyone with a canoe or two, and a Tarp for company. I camped on top of the hill, and the pic above shows us taking over the field early saturday morning. We used the back of our big Sprinter van to display our mini shop, and this worked well. as the video shows

All in all a great weekend, I even managed to paddle every single boat available (even if it was just a short spin in the Mowhawk playboats!) with some myths being overcome.

It was great to meet up with a lot of new and exisiting friends, as well as critique Ben from Palms work art outfitting his legend 15!
Bring on the next time!

Pete