My strictly personal 2 cents.
There are enough similarities between the two paddling craft families to please anyone wishing to cross over seeking different experiences on different days. But neither is a gateway drug for the other. You'd really have to try a selection of boats to know what suits you. I have paddled cockpit, rec, and SOT yaks, mostly because they were there and I felt like paddling something, and enjoyed the three differences. I've only paddled tandem flatwater tripper canoes, a fair number of them, and have also (day) soloed them. As much as the yaks were pleasant outings the canoes are/were wholly life transformative. Tripping canoes are the real and only deal for me. Canoe tripping to me is more than a recreational lifestyle choice, it feels more of an alternative immersive outdoor universe. Everything else is just play dabbling.
Which is why I first came to CT and (so far) continue to drop in; a friendly forum of like-minded canoe trippers sharing a fire.
The unfortunate inclusion in this site of candy cane stuff like racing, kayaks, and SUPs is quite frankly a bit of and insult to canoe tripping.
But we might all get along.
NB Although pennies are still legal tender in Canada, they are no longer produced and distributed (since 2012/13).
There are enough similarities between the two paddling craft families to please anyone wishing to cross over seeking different experiences on different days. But neither is a gateway drug for the other. You'd really have to try a selection of boats to know what suits you. I have paddled cockpit, rec, and SOT yaks, mostly because they were there and I felt like paddling something, and enjoyed the three differences. I've only paddled tandem flatwater tripper canoes, a fair number of them, and have also (day) soloed them. As much as the yaks were pleasant outings the canoes are/were wholly life transformative. Tripping canoes are the real and only deal for me. Canoe tripping to me is more than a recreational lifestyle choice, it feels more of an alternative immersive outdoor universe. Everything else is just play dabbling.
Which is why I first came to CT and (so far) continue to drop in; a friendly forum of like-minded canoe trippers sharing a fire.
The unfortunate inclusion in this site of candy cane stuff like racing, kayaks, and SUPs is quite frankly a bit of and insult to canoe tripping.
But we might all get along.
NB Although pennies are still legal tender in Canada, they are no longer produced and distributed (since 2012/13).
