This is what Real Life calls a War Canoe

[rupertlittlebear]

Here are some web pages with information and images on real War Canoes. You will notice that none of these come from the Caribbean.

Hawaiian twin hull (catamaran):
<a href="http://www.hawaiiantrading.com/`herb-kane`/pages/`peleleu-war`-canoe.html" target="_blank">http://www.hawaiiantrading.com/`herb-k...canoe`.html</a>
<a href="http://eraoftheclipperships.com/shipmodelpage3.html" target="_blank">http://eraoftheclipperships.com/shipmodelpage3.html</a>

From New Zealand (bad image, great captions)(how many pirates would this thing hold?):
<a href="http://www.topcatsail.co.uk/New_Zealand_11.html" target="_blank">http://www.topcatsail.co.uk/New_Zealand_11.html</a>
<a href="http://www.forestry.auburn.edu/sfnmc/nz/dec09_15.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.forestry.auburn.edu/sfnmc/nz/dec09_15.jpg</a> (Better image)

Voyaging Canoe (by definition, this thing would have been able to sail from Havana to Portsmith):
<a href="http://www.janeresture.com/canoes/main.htm" target="_blank">http://www.janeresture.com/canoes/main.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.janeresture.com/voyaging/main.htm" target="_blank">http://www.janeresture.com/voyaging/main.htm</a>

North West Coast War Canoe:
<a href="http://www.wyeastexpeditions.com/school.htm" target="_blank">http://www.wyeastexpeditions.com/school.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/watercraft/wad04eng.html" target="_blank">http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/watercra...t/wad04eng.html</a>

50 Man North West Coast War Canoe:
<a href="http://www.museedelaguerre.ca/aborig/tsimsian/warca01e.html" target="_blank">http://www.museedelaguerre.ca/aborig/tsims...n/warca01e.html</a>

Now wouldn’t Sid Meier’s Pirates! Live the Life be a hoot if we had something like these babies?

 

[Claud]

Weeee
more canoes to blow up with my Aceveda
WOHO!
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