Tuff Stuff is the latest material from Nova Craft. Is has been designed to take the place of Royalex and it delivers an amazing great blend of lightweight yet hard-wearing properties to their hulls.
Tuff Stuff is a blend of Basalt and Innegra which gives Nova Craft canoes supreme stiffness and performance with unbelievable lightness and longevity. Over the top is a gel coat and although this still scratches, should you manage to crack the gel coat with a big impact it can be repaird easily by the owner to the point that you'd hardly know it was ever damaged in the first place.
A lightweight tandem Nova canoe in Tuff Stuff really is the easiest of boats to car top, indeed many of their larger canoes weigh about the same as a small sit on top kayak!
Each of these hull types have their own merits when taking into account stability. Stability itself can be broken down into 2 categories: Primary Stability This can be described as how stable and flat the canoe is when the paddler or paddlers are simply sitting in their seats on the water. Secondary Stability This is how stable the canoe feels when it is leaned over. A canoe with good secondary stability can be gradually leaned further and further over in a smooth and controlled manner.
It is also easy to lean over at an angle for solo paddling and keep it there with minimal effort, only tipping completely when the gunwales become submerged. A canoe with poor secondary stability will lean over and tip quickly. Another important feature of canoe hulls to consider is 'Rocker'.
Rocker refers to the way a canoe hull is curved upwards at each end, making it look a little banana shaped. More Rocker makes a canoe more manoeuvrable and allows the boat to perform better on white water. However, it also makes a canoe harder to paddle in a straight line. Many canoeists who paddle tandem canoes solo will look for a rockered hull as it allows them to have a larger canoe without sacrificing manoeuvrability.
Rockered canoes are also slightly slower than those with longer, flatter keels with reduced rocker as found in touring canoes. Rockered canoe see Enigma Prospector. Touring canoe see Enigma Turing Flare or Tumblehome? The sides of a canoe can be said to have flare, be straight or have tumblehome. These refer to whether the side of the canoe curves outward, straight up or curves outward. Freeboard simply refers to the height of the sides of a canoe. The more freeboard you have, the drier the ride generally and the more safe and enclosed you feel within.
However, more freeboard also means a bigger wall for the wind to push against and that may make the canoe harder to handle in such conditions. The sides of your canoe can be straight, flared or have tumblehome. In a straight sided canoe, as the term suggests, the walls go straight up and down.
With flare, the canoe is wider at the gunwales than at the waterline, and with Tumblehome the sides are narrower at the gunwale than at the waterline. A larger canoe with Tumblehome is far easier to paddle solo and either of the other 2 designs as you don't have to reach over so far to get an effective paddle stroke. A canoe with low freeboard and tumblehome sides is ideal for solo paddling. Canoe seat usually came as standard made from either plastic or wood.
Plastic seats have the benefit of being hard-wearing with little or no maintenance required. They do have the drawback of being colder and a little less comfortable over longer periods of time. See: Enigma Canoes. You can also fit temporary canoe seats to accommodate a passenger. Wooden framed seats will have webbing straps or bootlace over them which are extremely comfortable and have the added benefit that in a tandem canoe which you wish to paddle solo, you can simply sit in the bow seat and face backwards for a fairly efficient solo paddling position.
The thwart is there to provide structural rigidity to the canoe and also provides a bracing position for the paddler to kneel against if required. The yoke provides structural strength but also being located around the centre of the canoe it balances the weight and allows the canoe to be carried upside down on one persons' shoulders.
These features are occasionally removed when fitting additional seats into canoes. Their Canadian canoes are designed to be comfortable and easy to use, with durable carry handles for easy transportation and superbly comfortable seats so you can be out on the water for as long as possible. Old Town also designed creative hatches on their Canadian canoes to give you ample storage and functionality.
Depending on your preferences you can find Old Town canoes that are made out of wood, which give an elegant appearance and celebrate the heritage of the Canadian canoe. Using wood means the canoe is very durable as well as looking like a work of art. Another material used is a three-layer polyethene, which gives the canoe superior strength, longevity and durability. Consisting of a foam core, you have an inbuilt flotation as well as insulation.
On top of Old Town and Riber, there are several other brands and variations of the Canadian canoe available. There is a wide enough range to satisfy any canoe enthusiasts needs. Skip to main content. Shop by category. The Pelican It offers great value for money and is made from Ram-X material. The Pelican Explorer Triple-layer polyethylene canoes are much stronger and tougher than single layer canoes.
They have a 3-layer construction where a closed cell foam is sandwiched between 2 layers of high-density linear polyethylene. These canoes are stiffer, making them easier to paddle, and more manoeuvrable. They offer the highest durability and strength as well as inherant buoyancy due to the foam core.
These canoes are popular for general purpose canoeing, white water rivers and touring. Click Here to view the full range of Triple Layer Canoes. The Nimrod 14 is ideal for both solo and tandem day trips and is one of the lightest triple layer tandem canoes available.
Great for touring and exploring. A slightly larger version of the Nimrod 14, offering a deeper draught and increased carrying capacity for a drier ride and general tandem touring. The Prospector 15 is the smaller version of the larger Prospectors where you get all the great handling features that make the Prospector a paddling legend, in a smaller and more responsive package.
This makes it ideal for day tripping or short weekend camping trips where lots of storage space is not a priority. A classic hull well-known as being the workhorse of the canoe world.
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