Outfitting Party week3

We haven’t done too much in the new shop this week, been to busy sending out orders from the old shop. Just a bit of tidying up.

We were due to get a van and trailer full of canoes and kayaks, but bad weather put paid to this both Thursday and Friday.

The racking will now come up on Monday, together with two vans full of boats. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we plan to empty the old shop then the Arches, with the help of 3 staff from Stockport. Don’t worry,once we see an empty space, we fill it! We plan to fill the Arches with boats, and the old shop with boxes of stock with all the new kit we are buying for Canoexpo.

We are now in full preparation for Canoexpo on the 16th and 17th of February, we had a planning meeting on Wednesday to finalise the plans. We will have 68 speakers in the programme all included in the price of admission. Cavavans, Motor homes and Camping will be available on site too, see here

New Shop Location

Well as we are almost there with the move, I thought we would publish directions for the new shop. Next week we will be moving in, This Saturday the 2nd we will be at the old shop. please give us a call to confirm. See the pages bar on the right for directions.

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!

Christmas Meal Tastic

This weekend we had a most excellent adventure. After work Antony and Pete Drove down to Sunny Lancashire to Stay at the Anderton Centre For beer and food, and Go Carting. After a walk to the pub, then a 30 minute walk to the Restaurant, (a bit of a Brookbank tradition) we were all warmed up for Pizza pasta and Perrini. A bit of a late night ensued involving much beer.

In the morning we went go carting!! Off to the Three Sisters Circuit Near Wigan, the first test was getting there!!. After Practice, and Qualifying we had the finals where Adam T (main Website techie at Stockport, and prior employee at the circuit!!) won, with all of us having an ace time on the ourdoor mahoosive circuit. Highly Recommended. A pity one of us was a bit under the weather…

The Following day 10 of the staff were off to Pyranha for some training. Included were a factory tour, a look at the new Shiny boats, and a chance to paddle. As It was a bit cold (we needed to crack the ice off the canal first!!) only 5 hardy souls went out. and Simon from UK took the (old) everest out for a spin.

Everything well in the shop as we continue to make preparations for our move

Lease Signed

Well the new lease has been signed as of this week, the plan at the moment is that we get hold of the keys on the 2nd January. we will then be outfitting the now shop in January. ready to open on the 1st February.

We plan to keep the old shop running before transferring shops in the last week of January…… Watch this space.

We will be located within 1 mile of the M6,

• Convenient for the North, South and East, without the need to go through the centre of Carlisle,
• Very convenient for new Bypass road planned for Carlisle,
• Still on a bus route
• And in a Large Ground Floor building,
• with all stock in one Building.
• This will enable us to get even more stock in the shop , and relieve the cramped upstairs location we currently have. We will be letting you know Our exact location, and new contact details as and when we have them!

Christmas Opening Hours

Here are our opening times over the festive season

• Saturday 22nd December -Open 9am – 5.30pm
• Sunday 23rd December – Closed
• Monday 24th December – Closed
• Tuesday 25th December – Closed
• Wednesday 26th December -Closed
• Thursday 27th December – Open 9am – 5.30pm
• Friday 28th December – Open 9am – 5.30pm
• Saturday 29th December – Open 9am – 5.30pm
• Sunday 30th December – Closed
• Monday 31st December – Closed
• Tuesday 1st January – Closed
• Wednesday 2nd January – Open 9am – 5.30 pm

If you wish to collect orders for Christmas, please make sure your order is placed before the 17th December. This gives us time to get most out of stock from suppliers.

Ads in Ocean Paddler

here is a fancy adds drawn up by the marketing department!! appeating in Ocean Paddler Mag, if you would like Pete to go on and on and on about his trip , just give him a call!!Ad in Ocean Paddler

Happy Birthday!!

To us, We are now 1 year old. Last year was great for us. Exciting things are going to happen in the next few months.