Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:14:02 -0600 (CST)
Message-Id: <199612072114.PAA04568@abby.skypoint.net>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: wayne steffens <wsteffen@skypoint.com>
Subject: Re: Oneida boats?
At 12:35 PM 12/7/96 -0800, you wrote:
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>Welt! since we are off the subject anyway .
>
>Jayne and I drove down the west side of the Olympic Peninsula (last year I
>think) and saw a indian gillneting out of a long dug out canoe at La Push.
>I found it amusing that he was useing what appeared to be a Mohawk
>paddle.
>
> The sea going dugouts of the Pacific are boats anyone would be proud of
>and at least one of them is still in use.
>
>I would guess that with five or six paddlers, that they are faster than the
>shorter baidarka.
>
I believe the Lummi tribe near Bellingham WA has dugout races every summer.
I used to live there but now I dont.
Wayne (cold but dry and happy)