Some canoes you can only do the minimum, just what the client wants.

This old 14' Tremblay came in last fall. The gunnels were shot, that was obvious. But the canoe needed so much more...half of the rib ends were so rotten that they were barely holding to the gunnel, and the gunnel ends were completely gone in one end, just the face of the wood was left. That's just the start...

So, all I did was remove the old gunnels, make new ones, and put them on.