Steaming the canoe
The canoe is steamed so that we can stretch out the canoe. Steaming the canoe makes the wood soft then the sides are supposed to ......... out to make the inside wider and to make the bottom rounder so that it will float upright better.

Water is placed inside the canoe to be used to steam the canoe, rocks are heated then placed in the water to get the canoe soft, when the canoe becomes soft it will open up and the bottom will round out more and the inside will be more.

To steam the canoe we heat rocks until they are red hot; not just any rock it has to be lava rocks. We put water in the canoe. (water was leaking from the canoe so that had to be fixed) Then we place the hot rocks into the water inside the canoe, covering the canoe with plastic to keep the heat inside it, using 2x4's to hold the plastic down.

Steaming the canoe takes several hours. We take out the rocks, replace them with more hot rocks then reheat the rocks we removed from the canoe. We did this for about 24 hours replacing the rocks every hour or so (? hour and a half)

The next day we did this again because it didn't work properly. This time we placed 2x4's inside to help stretch it out. It worked better this time around.

After we steamed the canoe we turned the canoe over to dump out the water. Once the water is out we began to smooth out the inside taking off the black burnt wood. We then turned the canoe over to even out the bottom of the canoe also taking off the burnt layer of wood on the bottom.

We moved the canoe inside the building,