[yimby2001]

I’ve done a lot of canoeing. It doesn’t even seem possible that you could canoe in the Pacific Ocean for any amount of time without being swamped.

[pge]

That part of the Pacific is very sheltered by islands so it is often fairly calm. The First Nations people have hunted and traveled in canoes there for many generations (unlike the Inuit on the eastern arctic and in Greenland that used sealed kayaks where the water was rougher).