Willi wrote:

Canoes are great but they're a pain in the ass to haul around,
especially wooden ones.

The cedar strip canoes of today are NOT your grandfather's cedar canoes.
My 16 footer weighs in at around 62 lbs. Before the invention of modern
day epoxies a canoe like that could weigh up to 100 lbs., depending on
how waterlogged the cedar strips.

As far as being a pain in the ass to carry around, I don't think a 62 lb.
canoe and its paraphenalia is anymore a pain in the ass to transport than
a float tube and all its paraphenalia. You were with me the first, last
and ONLY time I have ever been in a float tube. I know good and well I
could have carried a canoe and a paddle to that lake just as easily as
the tube, pump, fins etc. etc. With a canoe you just attach the paddle
and rod tubes to the thwarts, stuff your vest and lunch under the seat,
toss the whole shebang on your shoulders and go. MUCH easier, in my view,
than ****in' around with a float tube.

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Ken Fortenberry