Requirements
- 1.
What trees in your area are used for building canoes? Name them in your language. Are they considered softwoods or hardwoods?
- 2.
What trees are used for building canoes, softwoods or hardwoods?
- 3.
What tools are used for building canoes? Start with felling the tree up to completion.
- 4.
Choose a good canoe tree about four meters in length and observe the correct felling of it. Explain what happened.
- 5.
Describe how a log is prepared to build a canoe.
- 6.
With the help of others properly shape the outside of the canoe and hollow out the inside. Correctly smooth both surfaces inside and outside.
- 7.
Assist in the making of paddles, seats, poles and fittings for the canoe.
- 8.
Assist in the construction of decking, outrigger, mast and sail if the canoe is of a double hull or outrigger type.
- 9.
Make a tree model of the type of canoe used in your district.
About this honor
- Category
- Recreation
- Skill level
- 3
- Division
- South Pacific Division/Island Ed.
- Edition
- 2001
Requirements are published by AdventSource for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Advent Clubs reproduces them here for club leaders and links the original document above.