Hi Tim and welcome! Please feel free to share your interest in wooden canoes. People here would be happy to know. This is a great site for information exchange. Please consider joining the organization behind this site too - the WCHA is a great organization with an outstanding full-color, bi-monthly publication (Wooden Canoe), a wonderful annual meeting in the beautiful Adirondacks of New York, and a host of other benefits. Members here are paddlers, woodworkers, outdoor enthusiasts, boatbuilders, restorers, historians, and more. For information on joining, see here: