Dislike.

Is this how you do it?  Nope

Woud you recommend it?  Nope

that's pretty much the way we often did it with the Grummans from a beach landing. Its really very stable when you sit on the deck like that, with your legs bracing the hull on each side. 
But we'd put the stern out, and the bow on shore - that helps to lift the bow when you shove off like that.



with a $3,000 kevlar boat - nope.

    what was kind of stupid in the video is the guy walking into shallow water, and then setting the stern on the gravel beach - as long as he walked out that far, he should have set the boat parrallel to shore in water deep enough to float it and loaded it there. 

would I recommend it - probably for any boat except a kevlar hull - that wouldnt' hurt aluminum or royalex at all - at least not for the first 25 or 30 years.  works fine for a beach landing, and doing it that way, neither paddler needs to get thier feet wet.  but you don't want to load up in a river like that - should always load up parrallel to the bank with bow upstream for max control. 

there is an advantage to loading that way if you are at deep water, but with a lot of slimy, unstable rocks 2 or 3 feet under - it can be really difficult to load in the water under those conditions, and the method demonstrated might save someone from a nasty fall trying to make a wet-foot entry - trust me, I know all about falling on slippery rocks while wet-footing an exit or entry.  just depends on the circumstances, but if I felt it was safer, I'd do that with a kevlar hull and the hell with a few gouges that were easier to repair than a broken leg.

I think you'd be better served in most instances getting your feet wet and wading out and then stepping into the canoe (stern paddler).
Holding the bow as pictured is a good idea even if the stern paddler wet foots it.

Climbing in and over your gear in any landing situation is iffy at best. I can see someone taking a header real easy with a small misstep.

I understand the slippery rock/broken leg concern, but that can me minimized if you use your paddle as a 3rd leg ( maybe not hi-end graphite ones), but most paddles with the rock guards would be fine with a little care.

With bow secured as pictured the stern paddler can use his paddle and the gunnel's to walk themselves out and in safely.

Solo you get in the best you can
I wear the Brookie-Knee highs, so I just wade out and step in low and quick.

I've seen more than a few paddlers dump landing or exiting becasue they got careless for a moment and forgot that regardless of water depth, you can still roll one over pretty easy if you forget where your at.

Not with my canoe you don't...rented maybe...plus that how many packs are as light as that?  either that guy in the video is super buff or that pack is really light. 

We call exiting a canoe like that "Climbin Jacobs Ladder."