Inuit Skills Workshop

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Inuit Skills Workshop
North Antrim 12–14 January 2007


This workshop week-end is being organised by Robin Ruddock and Roy Huddleston on the north coast. It will include Inuit style paddling, rolling, games, fire starting, carving and working bone/antler, archive films, archery and music making (Irish traditional).

We would love to share ideas with other like minded paddlers and to help develop interest in this form of kayaking. If you have a skill or a talent to share all the better. We will have 1-2 Amassalik and 4-5 Narwhal (East Greenland style) and 8–10 Anas Acuta (West Greenland style) kayaks gathered up. Please bring your own kayak along as well and any Greenland style paddles you can beg, steal or borrow. Cost £75 residential or contact Robin for details regarding non resident rate.

Contact Robin Ruddock 12 Glenvale Avenue, Portrush, Co.Antrim, BT56 8HL. Mob 07803170157 email robinruddock@hotmail.com


Programme

Friday evening
7.00pm Gather at Bushmills Education Centre settle in.
7.30pm Inuit rolls and braces, description/video.
9.00-10.00pm Pool session in Joey Dunlop Recreation Centre, Ballymoney. Practical- bracing, rescues and rolling with Greenland style kayaks and paddles.
Social time, musicians bring your instruments, until breakfast at 8.30am.

Saturday
8.30am Breakfast
9.30am Paddle making
10.30pm Briefing for paddling session. Still water skills and trip.
4.00pm Inuit games and Archery
6.00pm Evening meal
7.00pm Practical workshops, carving, fire starting etc.
8.30pm Film screen
10.00pm Social time again until breakfast

Sunday
8.30am Breakfast
9.30am Briefing for rough water paddle, rolling and rescues
10.30am Practical
13,30pm Meal
14.30pm Film screen and farewell.

[CeeGee]

Hi,

Looks like a neat symposium - too far for me I\'m afraid, but this may be of interest:

www.qajaqusa.org/QK/makegreen2.pdf

I\'m planning on spending a few winter evenings making a Greenland paddle, and this link I found has a great how-to guide. Seems pretty straight-forward, and as the author says, better than spending $200 on something you can make yourself.

Cheers,

Steve

[SeanHennessy]

Here\'s a guy with another method, using a few more power tools:

http://www.yostwerks.com/GPIntro.html

He even has a two-piece version:

http://www.yostwerks.com/APIntro.html

[buildyourown]

There is a also a free video you can view online or download

http://www.carvegp.com/

Podge

[DesKeaney]

A huge \'thank you\' to Robin Ruddock and Roy Huddleston for a fantastic weekend. The range of knowledge and skills was amazing. Great stuff lads, go again!
Des Keaney

[diamondp]

As the others have said a great weekend lots of fun and learning/sharing. thanks to robin/roy and the others for making it happen. Looking forward to Peter\'s foraging weekend.....

[Sonja]

Thank you so much Robin and Roy it was a wonderful weekend. My mind is still full of it. Didn\'t realise that there are more than 24hours in the days up in Bushmills! Looking forward to the next one.

[CeeGee]

Sounds great, sorry I couldn\'t make it, other end of the Island, 10 hours drive and all that...

Anyhow, spent the weekend on my wn devices with the GP Padle video and PDF, a borrowed table saw and electric plane for the rough work and some hand tools, and made a passable stab at a GP for myself (with a piece of choice end-grain Pacific Cedar after much hunting at the lumber yard) and knocged up a laminated storm paddle (which my daughter can also use as a main paddle) from the scraps.

Give it a go, it\'s reasonably easy if you follow the instructions, and I\'m no \"natural\" carpenter

Steve


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