I'm just getting around to finishing an older wood/canvas canoe. After my wife of 37 years saw that canoe at the C.C.M. she decided my wood/canvas will become a "courting" canoe complete with a nice high-backed chair facing inwards, a parasol, a wine cooler, picnic basket and music. Sigh. The only upside to all of this is that she stated, with a wink, that we weren't real Canadians - yet.