On the back of a semi you say----?

did I ever tell you about the time I was in Truro Nova Scotia for a conference, and a friend bought a dorrie?  A six man dorrie?  There was no way she could bring it back to Winipeg in her check-in luggage, and we never really heard how she planned to do it.  This was in May.  That year, for the Icelandic Festival on the August long weekend, there had been some funding provided to build a full-sized replica of a viking ship, somewhere in EasternCanada, which was loaded onto a semi and shipped through to Gimli.  As it arrived in Winnipeg, nestled under the bow of the boat was the dorrie.  After a few days in a back yard here in the city, the dorrie was shipped North to this lady's summer home.  We never heard how this all came about, but I later heard that her son was a trucker and had got either the job of bringing the Viking ship through, or a different job that allowed him to take the dorrie North..  I remember during the conference hearing about how she and another female friend,both middle-aged ladies, had had to go and row the dorrie around the bay to test it out before she bought it.  I also remember during our supper one night, when the conference leader was making announcements, she mentioned that a woman from Manitoba had bought a dorrie as a souvenir.