My stroke and its effects killed my dream and plan of building two cedar-strip Prospecters ("Beaver" and "Otter") and � among other things� treating some blind kids to the inimitable pleasures of quiet river trips. I still get goose bumps, however, just revisiting the dream.
For the ultimate in satisfying canoeing experience, build your own cedar-strip, of any model that's detailed in the marvelous Canadian book whose name and author escape my rickety memory. (I'll post 'em if I remember 'em.) You haven't begun to sample the real pleasures of the water world until you've spent some time in canoes.
I've white-watered (bow paddle! wet job!) in a 19-foot square-stern Grumman in Alaska � much rather have a cedar-strip Prospector for general canoeing.
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