Canoe Trails Training Manual

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Making Camp (cont.) 3. A convenient place to unload canoes and store them upside down on shore. (Making sure they are secured with bow line to a tree, etc.) 4. Safe water in which to swim, free of sunken stubs. Have a pre-prepared duty roster for dividing work. For example, in a group of five crews, one crew can immediately get water and wood for both night and following morning. A second crew can set up tents, while a third crew can start the cooking fire, cook dinner and wash up cooking utensils afterwards. The other crews go fishing or just relax. The same crews start fire and get water in the morning, cook breakfast, and wash up, respectively. The cook crew should also set aside all items of food for lunch and pack them in a separate lunch pack to avoid digging through packs and commissary at lunch time. Each day starting after breakfast, the jobs should be rotated so that each crew will successively take over each kind of work. (Example: Cook crew starts with lunch, then supper and finishes with breakfast the next day . ) Note: In larger groups of 7 canoes it may be desirable to have 2 canoes working on the cooking crew. As soon as the dishes are washed and sterilized, beds should be made ready. Then comes time to lie around the fire and talk, to do a little twilight fishing, to write up the
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