Wai Wai skills and canoe building 🇬🇾 What an incredible experience to be invited to witness this final and crucial stage of canoe construction in Masakenari. The hollowed-out tree stem is carefully heated to allow for expansion, transforming it into the size and shape of a usable canoe. This is the make or break moment. If the wood isn’t at the right temperature or has hidden weaknesses, it can crack as it’s being spread. Small cracks can sometimes be patched, but a major split means weeks of