Canoe or kayak...?

Answer 1

I'm pretty old for a canoe trip now, but I love canoe tripping. I'm lucky to be near Canada, and have canoed some pretty fast rivers in a canoe, no class 3+ rapids, but interesting, while carrying week's supplies. A kayak is fun, but can't match what a canoe can do. Heck, if you have two canoes, you can link them in two minutes, with just about $8-$10 worth of gear, and then have a rig that carries four people, and is amazingly stable(you can stand up, walk, step from canoe to the other.) And, a 16-17 foot canoe will carry about 800lbs.

Answer 2

Depends on the activity. Kayaks are more individual, canoes take teamwork. Kayaks are not good for taking your kids with you, canoes are. Kayaks are more manuverable. Canoes can store/hold more gear. It depends what features you are looking for. I like to kayak with a few other people but we usually take the canoe camping because we can all play in it together.

Answer 3

I truly believe that for any sort of boating a closed-toe shoe is best. It offers just enough extra protection that it can prevent many injuries. As an active white-water rafter & kayaker I have seen several foot injuries most often associated with wearing open-toed sandals or flip-flops. Injuries occur at put-in and take-out points most frequently; things like the foot going down into mud and encountering that random piece of broken glass, etc. On white-water, people sometimes end up out-of-the-boat for various reasons, and feet can get driven into rocks, branches and other obstructions often at unpredictably angles. I used to wear Tevas while rafting: not anymore. I saw enough injuries to go and shell out the bucks for some specialized white-water shoes. But old tennies, even slip-on boat shoes (or your vans) would work much better than flip-flops. Don't think about being on the boat and paddling. Think more what you want on your feet while you are hauling the canoe down to the put-in, or pulling the boat up the beach for a lunch break, and then walking around on the shore, hopping over boulders, and/or etcetera. That's where you want more protection.

Answer 4

Depends on the water and what you wish to do. I like canoes more, because every so often I like to take a partner with me. There are two person kayaks, but they are not efficient with one person.

Answer 5

Well a Kayak is for one person and has better mobilty...Alot more fun...

a Conoe is for more than one person, not has fast as a Kayak, but more comfortable and good to fish off of..

So it all depends what you are doing in the water....

Have fun...I love being in the water..Also be safe....

Answer 6

Canoe. I love them!

Answer 7

where will you use it? How may people do you want to be in it?
these are the questions you need to ask....I have both :)