We were going long and we went over something
and it just was a point of something
sticking out and I said Wendy we gotta go back and look at that
So we turn around and went back upstream kind of floated over the top of it
and I said that looks like a canoe
and he said "naw" and the more we looked he said "Ahh it could be"
I've been over that spot many many times you know
Canoeing in the wintertime is, I mean the water is clear
it's totally different than summer canoeing.
and we usually didn't do it was one it was a kind of a fluke deal.
We went back when the water was warm and it was above a deep hole.
If it ever got down into that deep hole unless
the river completely dried up you would have never found it. Almost half of it was
under sand and it didn't go in a deep angle
so it was only mean a little bit of sand.
It kind of laid just like with the back end down.
So I would say probably 5 or 6 feet were
sticking out of the sand and the rest of it was
partially buried not completely but partially buried.
We didn't know we weren't supposed to be doing this
We kind of found that out later.
And it did come apart it was one piece that wasn't connected good and it
was a little kind of floppy. We got it to shore
and we I think we had some rope had because it wanted to kind of
separate little bit in spots and we kind of tied it together and one of the guys
at this historical society and he kind of took over the job of
trying to preserve it basically. So we had to build a tank
and lined with plastic and they got a bunch I think it was polyethylene glycol
that use soak it in. And then it
ended up being a major project because they had to build a case for it they had
the temperature control was all there was all kinds of more things involved in
just setting it in the corner because it'd been underwater
and it would deteriorate against fairly fast if you just left it natural.