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I had wondered why they were kept with water in them… now i know.
ya keeping them wet will keep them from cracking. In the 17th century the natives would filled the boats with hevay stones and sank them on the botom of the rivers and ponds. They would just remove the stones in the spring and float them to the shore and let them dry out for a day or so.
The video was very helpful to me as my son has to build a mishoon for a school project. I was able to get a good look at the inside to see how it was hollowed out.