Canoe building course Summer 2024
In summer 2024 we held 2 canoe building courses in Ämmätsä, Finland. During that course several Finnia canoes got built.
Find photos from the courses in this article.
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Vendia in the News
There has been extensive News coverage of our Canoe building courses this summer. YLE covered the course with a focus on our youngest participant Elsa.
There is also a very nice Blog Story about our June course. Pekka Lassila was attending the June course and documented it really well.
We are taking reservations for the next Summers courses already. Get in touch if you want to build your very own Finnia Canoe!
Greetings from Kallavesj’ 2016 fair!
Kallavesj’ 2016 fair was held on the first weekend of April in Kuopio, Finland and it was an opportunity to see our mahogany faced VENDIA marine plank. Niko-pulling boat was also present. It looked great since it had received the final varnish layers and the beautiful appeareance of mahogany really stood out.
VENDIA bends also in the hands of beginners
Many people dream of building an own wooden boat but many of us wonder the lack of experience. Building a wooden boat is fine handicraft but at the same time it is demanding work, so different kind of boatbuilding courses are excellent places for the beginners to build the first wooden boat. For example in Finland the local adult education centres arrange boatbuilding courses for the beginners. There is a professional teacher on the course who teaches the boatbuilding step by step. Also the materials and drawings are arranged on behalf of the course so it is easy to start the boatbuilding.
The first touch of boatbuilding with VENDIA
VENDIA marine plank has been popular material among boatbuilding courses in Finland. One of the courses was held in Suonenjoki, in Northern Savonia. During last October and November the course had completed seven wooden boats made of VENDIA marine plank. The course lasted a month and the participants made all the boats together. Surface finishing for the boats will be done in the spring when they also will be raffled among the builders. At the beginning of summer the course participants will get to try the new boats to the Savonian lake scenery.
Boatbuilders with VENDIA
Wooden boats were made of VENDIA marine plank in boatbuilding course of Soisalo Institute in Sorsakoski, Finland. Course participants Viljo Huovinen, Paul Hämäläinen, Timo Kervola, Reino Uusaro, Veikko Hiltunen and Keijo Issakainen built their own wooden boats with a course teacher Ilmo Koivisto. To most of them, building a boat was the first time. Now part of the course participants are planning to build another boat the next winter.