Help from P&H

P&H have been very good about helping me with this project. They have matched the gelcoat colour and are supplying me with new stickers. They've also been able to tell me a little bit about the boat; it was made around 1980/81 and went to North Wales directly after manufacture.

Purchase of a battered boat

I bought a well-used boat from a fellow NWSK paddler this evening. I had given the boat an extensive trial over the previous weekend and decided to take it off Glen's hands and give him some cash towards a more suitable boat for his kids.

The boat is an Umnak Icefloe, designed by Derek Hutchinson:
and manufactured by P&H:
A lot of work is going to be needed to get it into shape and I'm going to have to do some thinking first.