Apparently on date 25 Jun 2004 19:21:31 -0700, (George) said:

Yuri Kuchinsky wrote in message ...
carl wrote:

you bet! and if you want to see a sea worthy Waka Hourua head on down
to the Auckland maritime museum , they look very little like a
canadian canoe and they go significantly faster.

Those who have studied both types of craft disagree.

No.

http://www.newzealand.com/travel/about-nz/culture/discovery-vintage-new-zealand/$profiles/hekenukumai-busby.cfm
is as much a real authority on the Waka as its possible to find.
The Canadian dug out
http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/wa.../wad05eng.html resembles
the waka in no way what so ever.

You know, I've never imagined that they were so different. A dug out canoe
ought to resemble any other, initially, regardless of who built it and where.
But the finishing off is quite significant and, as you say, quite differently
executed.

It's remarkable that Heyerdhal didn't even check to see if there were
similarities between the two, in order to see that, actually, there are
striking differences.