canoe

     

A canoe is a small narrow boat, typically human-powere, though it may also be powered by sails or small electric or gas motors. Canoes usually are pointed at both bow and stern and are normally open on top, but can be covered.

Trivia about canoe

  • This watercraft is usually made of aluminum or fiberglass; you don't see many dug-out logs these days
  • Polynesians still use the dugout type of this vessel
  • Outriggers & kayaks are both types of this open boat
  • In the Maori language, waka is this type of boat of which Maoris were master builders
  • In the south Pacific an outrigger type of this craft has a framework for stability
  • Thoreau wrote, "Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for" this narrow boat
  • A boy must have the badge named for this vehicle before he earns the whitewater badge