The natives go everywhere here with riveted boats.
The natives do a lot of weird things.
I had one row me down the Situk and it was actually beyond comical.
"My Dad taught me."
Good thing it's a gentle river.
They make do with what they have.
Rivet boats are lower cost and that's probably the main reason people end up with them.
No one, and I mean no one here in the PNW runs shallow water in rivet boats.
You'll see them in deep water but not running rivers.
Leaking rivets are always nagging at you. Grab the bail bucket or hit the bilge pump switch.
SmokerCraft tried to get into the river running business with their rivet boats but they're all gone now.
In a small freestone river (rare here) you could get away with using a rivet boat, but the solid basalt stuff will rip open a 1/4" bottom if you do the wrong thing.
