How many safety issues can you spot in these photos?

I'm pretty sure that before there were roads or powerboats, this was a common sight in the NW.  Only, the cargo would have been beaver pelts and the crew would be wearing canvas or buckskin.

-Mark-

Probly with a larger canoe not stacked quite so high. 

By Charles Deas - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Public Domain

What you guys call overloaded, I call ballast.    It looks fun and challenging.  Besides, they had a safety plan--the beer was safe in its own non-overloaded vessel.  At the end of the day, that is all that matters.