Canoe or Kayak...which one
With kayaks and canoes, you can skim across the water with the grace of a swan, or dart around a pond to get a duck’s-eye view of the world. Unlike other forms of boating, canoes and kayaks bring you close to the water, and their enhanced maneuverability makes it easy to explore.
Canoeing and kayaking will open up a whole new world to you. It’s a fun activity, it takes place in attractive surroundings, it’s inexpensive and easily accessible—you can throw a canoe or kayak on the roof of your car and be launching in a local waterway 15 minutes after getting home from work.
The canoe is probably more familiar to most people, practically the only choice for traveling inland waterways since the Indians made their first birchbark boats. Paddled with a short, single-bladed paddle from a kneeling or high-sitting position, they generally can carry bigger loads and more passengers.
Kayaks, on the other hand, are propelled with a long double-bladed paddle from a low-seated position. Because of this, they are actually more stable, as a general rule, than canoes.And because one’s weight and center of gravity are so low, you can actually rock a kayak quite violently with your hips without any chance of capsizing, as long as you relax and keep your upper body vertical.
Give it a try.
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