1. The canoes were loaded with sealskin floats. 2. Both canoes are on their first West coast tour. 3. A finished, new or rebuilt, wood-and-canvas canoe is something you can appraise with a cold, if admiring, eye. 4. Canoes are notoriously hard to steer, especially if you try to drink beer and eat stale potato chips while paddling. 5. For centuries, the canoe was a major form of transportation for native tribes and European traders. 6. If there were two canoes, friends recall, he would insist on racing for hours at a stretch. 7. In postwar southern California, where I was partly raised, canoes were rarer than alligators. 8. Just as earlier cars with fins and bumpers like chrome canoes were shrines to dime-a-gallon times. 9. Soon the other canoes are beyond our vision. 10. The wooden canoes are direct descendants, children, of the original birch-bark watercraft. |