A father and son team are set to quench their thirst for adventure with an epic journey from England to their homeland of Estonia in a former Windermere hire boat.
Heiki Hanso and his father Andres will set off on the 2,800km journey they have been planning for three years this weekend in a four-metre boat once hired out to visitors and tourists on Windermere.
Now christened V Kindluss, meaning waterproof', the boat, powered by a six horsepower engine, has been customised by the pair to enable them to travel through the English canal network, across the English Channel and towards the Estonian island of Saaremaa.
The boat, which formally belonged to the Low Wood Watersports Centre, can now sleep one person undercover and another inside a tent perched on the top.
For full story see the July 13 edition of The Westmorland Gazette.
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