At the Seafarer's meeting today we got to talking about building a traditional canoe with modern materials. The hull would be strip molded and the wooden members would be laminated beams. The hull would replicate the Quest, our current canoe and the rig would be the same. The idea is not to improve on the tradition. The intent is to build a canoe that the rest of us can train in and learn to sail. If we can we might even be able to raise enough interest that we could start having canoe races in the bay. That would be a sight to see.

We also talked about going to Manny's home island. As it turns out he isn't from Puluwat after all but from Hoak. Gordon wants to go down there and I want to go too. It's a rather complicated trip. First we'd have to fly from Guam to Chuk (the correct name for Truk Lagoon). That runs three times a week. We'd catch the Sunday flight. Then we'd catch the flight from Chuk to Puluwat. That runs on Tuesdays. Then we'd find someone to take us the 20 miles out to Hoak on a powerboat. Gordon figures the round trip would take two weeks with a week and a half on the island. Total distance traveled? Round trip about 1,000 miles.

This is a whole different way to travel as compared to grabbing a flight to the other coast.