Several years ago my husband made a wooden boat (small and narrow enough to paddle like a canoe) and we took it on some day trips in the BWCA. It got scratched up no matter how careful we were. That's when we decided to make a Kevlar canoe. Now in the last four years it has been on 243 different lakes and gone over 600 miles. It gets scratched on the rocks each year but is easy to touch up with a little epoxy. We always wear knee high rubber boots and carry the canoe out into the water to avoid as much contact with rocks as possible. Cedar strip canoes are so beautiful, though, and I love to see them anywhere--I know what kind of work goes into making them!

Posted by Heather on December 22, 1999 at 07:59