<P> In Northern Europe, the tradition of making dugout canoes survived into the 20th and 21st centuries only in Estonia, where seasonal floods in Soomaa, a 390 km2 wilderness area, make conventional means of transportation impossible . In recent decades a new surge of interest in making dugouts (Estonian haabjas) has revitalized the ancient tradition . </P> <P> Dugout canoes were constructed throughout the Americas, where suitable logs were available . The indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest are very skilled at crafting wood . Best known for totem poles up to 80 feet (24 m) tall, they also construct dugout canoes over 60 feet (18 m) long for everyday use and ceremonial purposes . </P> <P> In 1978, Geordie Tocher and two companions sailed a 3.5 - short - ton (3.2 t), 40 - foot (12 m) dugout canoe (the Orenda II), made of Douglas fir, and based on Haida designs (but with sails), from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to Hawai ʻi to add credibility to stories that the Haida had travelled to Hawai ʻi in ancient times . Altogether they ventured some 4,500 miles (7,242 km) after two months at sea . </P> <P> The dugout canoes were made mostly of huge cedar logs in the state of Washington for the ocean travellers, but natives that lived on the smaller rivers used smaller cedar logs . </P>

What happened to the old dugout canoe used by the old man