What, I hear you ask, is a camping punt? Well, it’s supposed to look like this: Pretty slick, eh? We felt something like this would be a great addition to our punt. Being engineers, we argued for a long time about the best design, and being penniless students, we wondered for a long time whether [...]
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We made a Camping Punt!
Posted in Equipment on 11/06/2010 | 2 Comments »
End of exams. And a Piano.
Posted in Equipment, Publicity, Supporters, Training on 09/06/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Apologies for the long absence – exams rather got the better of us recently, but we’re all done now! So with less than two weeks to go, it’s full steam ahead on preparations. We’re sorting out a tent contraption of some sort for the punt to stop us getting soaked by the English summer weather. [...]
People who are helping us: Jones Boatyard
Posted in Equipment, Planning, Supporters on 10/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Organising the logistics for a trip like this is so much easier when there are other people willing to help out. We wouldn’t get far without the lock keys necessary to operate each of the 113 locks on our route – and rising costs would be one of the greatest dangers to getting this voyage [...]
We won two bikes!
Posted in Equipment, Nature, Training on 30/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Out punting this morning in the mill pond below the rollers – it’s becoming one of our favourite places, I think. For me at least. Toby didn’t fall in today, but he did get his pole stuck. Of course I had to retrieve it for him, and when I hauled it up, we were excited [...]
Looking the part
Posted in Equipment, Publicity on 21/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
We had a date with a photographer from the Cambridge News today, so it was about time to get ourselves some proper headgear. Ryder & Amies, the University outfitters do a nice line in straw boaters, of which we are now four proud owners. The sun shone, and we hung around under the Bridge of [...]
