Britain has more than 3,500km of waterways to explore, but instead of buying a canoe from the supermarket why not make your own?
When did you last build a boat? Maybe that seems an outlandish concept – something for Noah, for loftsmen, for bearded woodsmen, not for you.
But go back 50 years, and you will find lots of normal people built boats. The Mirror dinghy was a plywood DIY project conceived by the Daily Mirror newspaper in the 1960s, to bring sailing to the masses. Boat building was a family pastime, a fun thing for a Saturday, and achievable with little experience, basic equipment and materials.
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