Question

how did the french explorers learn how to make boats suitable for the coastal waters, rivers, and lakes

Answer 1

It might be said that the French explorers learnt how to make boats suitable for the coastal waters, rivers and lakes when they were at the great Lakes. They decided to build small sailing- ships to travel the entire length of the Missouri and the Mississippi River to New Orleans on the golf of Mexico. They built native birch-bark canoes and large rafts.