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[edit] Don't delete canoe line
While some might object to the use of the term "canoe" in Britain and Ireland, the fact remains that the terminology exists. Possibly as a result of craft such as the Rob Roy, the term canoe was familiar and applied to decked boats with double-bladed paddles. Michael Daly 01:13, 24 November 2006 (EST)
For the American Canoe Association at the time of around 1880, a "canoe" was a decked, double-ended boat, propelled with a double-blade paddle or sailed. Open canoes then were often identified as "Peterborough" or "Rice Lake" canoes where early cedar-strip boats were first made. In other words: "Canadian" canoes. But the "Canadian" canoe lost its qualifying prefix not long afterward, and all open canoes in America were simply "canoes" (open or closed/decked). In Europe, where kayaks had been often called 'canoes', people however kept calling canoes 'canadians' and used the word canoe for a kayak. Unfortunately this practice only amplified the confusion, and many people in those countries now even call a canoe a 'Canadian kayak'. This confusion is, however, understandable, when you consider that in those European countries, almost all canoeing books, canoe magazines, canoe clubs and canoe lessons are mostly about kayaking and very little, if at all, about canoeing!?
Technically, however, I think that a kayak can indeed be seen as a special kind of a (decked) canoe that is meant to be paddled with a double bladed paddle (from a seated position). But a canoes is not a kayak, like a canoe is a boat, but a boat is not a canoe.
Also I see a so called sea kayak as a special kind of touring kayak, which could be (better) decribed as an "open water" touring kayak, or a seaworthy touring kayak? Dirk Barends 03:25, 10 March 2007 (EST)
