> > Another thing you probably know is that if you put the heavy guy in front and the lightweight in the back, the canoe is almost impossible to control.
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> Except, of course, when you're travelling downstream, in which case it prevents the canoe from spinning around backward on you.
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> I'm not a great canoeist, but my father has clocked enough hours in the stern seat that some of it's rubbed off. I have to say, there is nothing quite like being in a canoe in the middle of a relatively untrafficked lake, and that includes being in anything with a motor on the same lake.

Going down a fast flowing stream is fun too, but only if you have a car waiting at the take out point. Downstream = fun, upstream = work.

I used to shoot some mild rapids on the Little Tennessee River before they built a dam and turned into a lake.
Howard