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I'm totally exhausted. In a good way. An intense week is over. Happy and satisfied I'm digesting a week of hard work with a great group of people in Arctic Tromsø. The planning has been going on since last summer, when Bjørn asked me if I would come up and do a build class in Tromsø. The class was full with 8 students only after a few days, and I've been working on logistics now and then since. We got the very kind offer of using Trondjord school - a small village school 40 minutes out of Tromsø city.  The plan was to build 8 very different kayaks - all taylored individually to the user. All kayak were Greenlandic types, but most differnt in shape. One East Grenland style kayak, one hybrid Greenland kayak for touring, one replica of an actual well ducumented Greenlandic kayak, one South Greenland style kayak, two West Greenland style kayaks and two hybrid rolling kayaks.  Fred, one of the students offered to take the materials by car from my workshop to Tromsø - a 1700 km. ...

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