It’s funny the things we do now like boat making or fishing that our ancestors used to do just to make life easier, and when we do them now they don’t exactly make our lives easier or less expensive. (We probably could by a canoe for a quarter the cost of the building materials and tools or buy a salmon for a small fraction of the price that we pay for fishing gear, fly tying materials and everything else associated with the religion of fly fishing.) But these are the things we do to make our lives more fulfilling, and our forebears fought so hard so that we wouldn’t have to struggle in the arduous task of making a canoe. And yet here we are in the age of convenience struggling to make canoes, for no other reason other than pure pleasure.
With the amount of wood it would take to make one Native American dugout canoe of the type that the Salish coast tribes used to make, you could make six strip canoes.
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