It seems this represents a piece of history that is disappearing. Growing up in south Louisiana, everyone had a pirogue for duck hunting and fishing. Today I can't even find a RU-vid video of anyone polling through the marsh in a pirogue.
Funniest thing I ever saw was a fiberglass boat going down stream with the current loaded with gear run up on a fat lighterd knot , it put a hole as big as my beer can in it . Damn a fiberglass boat.
Your pirouge is somewhat similar to the bow shape of a 12' skiff that i am building. The reason i started checking out pirouges is that the layout of my side plywood bow panels look like they could be cut 4 sheets at a time from 8'x24" ply. to provide the 4- 8' x 24" side panels needed to quickly make a nicely shaped, wide, 16' pirogue or dory, that has a high bow and stern W/proper rocker and rowability.
It's my understanding that "rocker" refers to the arched shape of the bottom as it rises or falls towards the stem or transom, and "rake" refers to the angle of the stem.
Rake refers to the top front point of the bow drawing a straight vertical line down. The angle from the point the bow “rakes” back and touches the waterline to that vertical line is the rake angle of the bow or sometimes called a bow pitch angle.
@@johngallagher912 It's french. That's a particular cajun dialect- like this guy. Anyone in S. LA without a french patois in their speech pronounces it p-rog. A lot of our words sound weird to outsiders. I spent 10 minutes trying to find burgundy street for some lost tourists in the french quarter once. I was thinking and thinking and i realized they meant "ber-gun-d"
@@poppaluv That's exactly right. I grew up an hour west of New Orleans. We pronounce it pe-rawg, like the guy in this video. It's the people that live north of interstate 10, especially if they have a twang like the piney woods people, that say pe-row.
