Video: White Water Canoe Designs

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White water canoes come in a variety lengths and widths and are made of different materials. Learn about various white water canoe designs in this free online instructional video.

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When you start getting into solo white water canoing you'll see that there's a huge variety of boats you can use. All the way from very short play boats like this one up to longer boats that are more intended for tripping and for other sort of down more down river uses. The major differences in these boats have to do with length, width, and materials and often with rocker. And the rocker is the amount of the hull curves from one end to the other. This boat has a fair amount of rocker and it's also very short so that's what's going to make the boat spin very easily. It's going to turn relatively and it's going to be really great play boat it will surf really nice short waves well and it will spin into eddies. What it won't do is it won't go straight very easily, a longer boat such as this one that has much less rocker and a lot more of hull in the water than anyone time is going to much better in going a straight line. So it will be less frustrating for a beginner or someone trying to go down river it makes them distance on a river. The other element that makes it difference on these boats is width, if you look at this one for instance is a nice wide boat has nice wide center, a fairly flat bottom it's going to have a lot of initial stability so when your first sitting in the boat it's going to be fairly stable side to side. The contrast to that again is the zoom here which is super narrow and still has a fairly flat bottom but it's going to be fairly tippy side to side because there's not a whole lot of secondary stability there once you start to lean over. So no matter what boat you choose for solo white water canoing make sure its suited for the type of boating your going to do and the type of rivers your going to run and do some research ahead of time there lot's of varieties out there and lot's to choose from.

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White Water Canoe Designs

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