Just a link that I thought some of you would like to see, it is an old tv programme from 1960 bt David Attenborough which has him looking at and sailing a traditional double canoe from the island of Kambara near to Fiji. It is on the BBC iplayer site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00y20lw/The_People_of_Paradise_Can...