Hi Mike,

I know what you mean. It would take a good chunk of time to build one of these from scratch. (But I plan to do that next year.)

I should have mentioned before that I got lucky; I found the canoe that I'm restoring for sale on eBay. It was mouldering out in the weather on top of a garden shed about 15 miles from my house. It's pretty ugly right now, but I suspect that because of that I won the auction at $50.

I'm estimating it'll take about 50 hours to restore, which means it will actually take about 100 hours. For a number of reasons, it will be a labor of love.

Jeff