Outfitting Party Week 2

The last 2 days as seen further frenzied activity in the new shop. Chris, Mike Hulme, and Simon G have been up with Antony fitting all they could. Antony sorted out all the gridwall late last week.

Yesterdays’ big job was fitting the carpet…. completed but not without some expletives…. maybe we should have employed the professionals? we also completed most of the Slat wall fitting.

Today we finished off the partition walls for the changing room, and behind the main counter. The counter itself was also finished,we also sorted some storage/display units.

The Nice man from BT was in today to look at the phones, we now have a telephone line! , so the major issue of no phone line in nice new shop is now avoided! just need to get a telephone up there!

Antony and Mike moved the three big double open boat racks from the Arches, into the new Unit, using a trailer with no problems.

Next weeks plans:-

• New boat racking will arrive
• move boats from the boat store into the new unit

The following week we will be moving the old shop, to the new shop, everything should fit!! the exact day of opening is TBA still – hopefully we will be open before our big open evening on the 7th!!

Outfitting Party Week 1

Well yesterday we got started with fitting out the new shop. Ant, together with some staff from two of the other shops – Mike H, Chris, and Simon have been working hard

(this was at the end of the day!)

The Carpet arrived, and we started fitting out. We have started battening the wall for the software slatwall, and the desk has been started. hopefully today we will finish something!!!

The place still looks huge but it is still nice and warm. You can see from the second photo, we have managed to get the new Remix 59 demo boat as the first boat in the shop!

The racking has just arrived this morning, so over the next few days that will be getting up. the new Canoe and kayak racks should arrive next week.

The old shop is still busy, with lots of new kit arriving all the time, ready for the move. Our storage is also full, ready to expand and fill the space we will have

We will be having an open evening on the 7th of February, but should actually be open by the end of January. In the mean time, you can still contact us on our telephone number 01228 531703

Keys

Well we now have the keys for the new Unit, Electrics went in this week. Next week we have the big outfitting party, with carpet, and shopfitting going in. Its all looking good at the moment. The new racking, and carpet has been ordered, and we have a good idea of the boats we want in.

Watch this space about the phones, but we will be keeping our old number, despite moving into a new phone district…..(don’t ask me how!) and we will be using the internet even more than the Skype we currently use between shops. More electrickery coming soon!