Canoe!!!!....... A canoe!!!!......... Why the hell would you take a canoe? You may be asking yourself.
Are they Nuts???!!!
Well yes we are not only did we stick to the 1 litre rule and using an unpractical car we wanted a comical factor as well.
What else could be more impractical than to take through land locked countries and deserts than a 15ft canoe dressed up to be a ‘Viking longboat’.
Ross acquired the old monster around 4 years ago and it has gathered its own ecosystem on his parents drive becoming one of the best Snail sanctuaries on the Island. Then one fine day Seb and Ross thought lets take something stupid with us and see if we can take it all the way to Mongolia…….
The longboat was conceived………
After collecting the treasured 15ft monster(that over hangs our car both ends)Ross couldn’t contain the fact that it needed painting and Done his best impersonation of a professional sprayer ,much to the amusement of Pie Boy(who was nearly choking to death from fumes and the fact that the front of his house was now slowly turning brown). Seb hunted down mast material and used his skill’s with rope to secure a mast system (Ross isn’t allowed to touch the knots, as they are tidy at the moment).
Jason got busy spraying the sail for the beastie, but not in the conventional way of course, being ‘Team Mighty Wight’ he done the deed under the howling calls of a full moon at going on Midnight. As homage to an artist we have promised to fly his work at every camp out and stop until Mongolia.
Our back up Engine was now complete; we just need to prey for a tail wind now.
The Boat, The Mast, The Sail its off to the’ Open Sea’s’ …..oooops sorry I mean ‘Off To The Open Road’ Mongolia here we come….
