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Dan 07963 852 547

Steve 07706 244 891

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ORCA

CANOE BUILDING WORKSHOPS

IN THE LAKE DISTRICT - POOLEY BRIDGE - UK

Building a canoe with ORCA
ORCA Lakelander
Ullswater canoe lakelander
ORCA canoe building workshop
Ullswater canoeing Lakelander
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Lakelander canoe building
Santa came to build a canoe
ORCA canoe building
Lakelander stich and tape canoe

 GREETINGS

Welcome to Open River Canoe Adventures.....aka ORCA.  We are besotted canoe nuts, who run Canadian canoe building workshops from a submarine testing station, on the shores of Ullswater, a short walk from Pooley Bridge, in the AMAZING Lake District.

 

For 2025 we have our 14ft LAKELANDER super stable and easy to build canoe.

The courses are super chilled, music playing, tea brewing, paint flying things of creation. You don't need any wood working skills, as the stages are really simple and loads of fun.

 

Come on your own, or bring friends and family along to help out at no extra cost and make a holiday out of it. Upon completion, the canoe is yours to keep.

 



2025 DATES NOW AVAILABLE
 

 £100 DEPOSIT

or

£685 FULL AMOUNT

FREE STUFF (model canoe!!) Click me!!

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2025 DATES 

31st March​  - 2nd April

14th - 16th April

12th - 14th May

28th - 30th May NEW

9th - 11th June

7th - 9th July

30th July - 1st August ( 2 spots left)

15th - 17th Sept

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CANOE HIRE

Comming to the Lake District and need a canoe? we can hire you a canoe, paddles and life vests for either a weekend or a week. 

Price depends on length of hire time and type of canoe.

Call Steve on

07706 244891

for more info and to book.

Don't have time to build your canoe, we also build canoes for sale. 

Check out our shop to see what we currently have for sale or feel free to contact us if you wish to commission a build, You can choose either the Lakelander or Prospector in any size, colour or seat configuration you would like. Lead time is around 2 weeks.

CANOE KITS

GIFT CARDS

We have GIFT cards available to give this, Choose Date not known,, and we will e,mail you a PDF Gift card, Then the date can be chosen once the card is received on the big day. Just drop us a line when you know a date.  

CANOE PLANS

Canoe Building Workshop walk around. At Pooley Bridge, The Lake District
Dan Platt

Canoe Building Workshop walk around. At Pooley Bridge, The Lake District

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