Canoe Problem

[nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory)]

Here a link containing some links to other posts to help you out getting a good material for water, which can be done on surface you end up with as mentioned in the post above.

Sea / ocean material, bump and displacement not showing

Here a couple of posts to look at The first and third linked posts have water materials available in them for your benefit. addendum: what you see in the Rendered viewport is just the bump map. Displacement doesn’t work too well on the ground plane as displacement maps needs a lot of dense geometry to be useful. Anyway, the above linked posts should help you get good results using normal maps.