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.
Dont worry if your raft comes apart on the lake as the
team will be on hand with safety cover to rescue you and your raft if needed!
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
rock climbing,
mountain and hill scrambles,
abseiling,
aquaseiling,
open Canadian canoeing,
canoe sailing,
canyoning,
cycling,
gorge scrambling,
kayaking,
mountain biking,
sailing,
knot tying,
Pontoon and rope bridge building,
ghyll scrambling,
waterfall climbing,
orienteering,
navigation,
hill walking,
archery,
rifle shooting,
Paint balling,
raft building,
team building,
survival days,
culvert scrambling,
Tyrolean traversing fishing,
bushcraft day courses, 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
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Lancashire - Chorley, Preston, Wigan, Blackpool, Burnley, Blackburn, Darwen, Adlington, Anderton, Accrington, Southport,
Anglezarke, Rivington, Colne, Lancaster
Lake District - Keswick, Ambleside, Windermere, Bowness, Kendal, Coniston, Staveley, Whitehaven, Workington, Penrith, Hawkshead, Troutbeck, Barrow-in-Furness, Kirkby Lonsdale, Workington, Langdale, Elterwater , Kirkstone, Ullswater, Patterdale, Pooley Bridge, Derwentwater, Wasdale, Borrowdale, Grizedale, Grassmere, Rydal,
Greater Manchester - Bolton, Bury, Salford, Westhoughton, Stockport,
Liverpool - Sefton, Knowsley, Chester, Birkenhead, Wallasey, Runcorn, Crewe,