Raft building in the Lake District
Raft building
Using long rafting spars (wooden poles / planks), Barrels and lashings (ropes) your team will build a raft capable of getting you around a set course on the lake.
To start your raft building session your team will first plan out you raft design on paper and then make a scale model of the raft before building your final design.
Once you have designed your raft you will then move on to building it using ropes to lash the spars and barrels together. If your lashings are loose and your raft isn’t built correctly your in for a wet session.
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Raft building is an excellent activity whether it’s for a fun session on the water or for a team building excersise.
Raft Building is a great outdoor adventure activity for a half day session and can be combined with one of the following activities to make a full day, choose from either
abseiling, rock climbing, open Canadian canoeing, canoe sailing, aquaseiling, canyoning, cycling, gorge scrambling, kayaking, mountain biking, sailing, river walking, ghyll scrambling, waterfall climbing, orienteering, navigation, hill walking, archery, rifle shooting, raft building, team building tasks, survival days, culvert scrambling, Tyrolean traversing and bushcraft and wilderness camps.
We have many raft building venues within easy reach of Chorley, Preston, Blackburn, Bolton, Rivington, Anglezarke and Manchester and in Cumbria, particularly around the North, South, East and the West Lake District areas, for example Coniston, Ambleside, Windermere, Keswick, Hawkshead, Kendal, Bowness, Ullswater to name just a few.
To view some of our raft building pictures please click here raft building images.