Thanks for the recommendations of the SR 17, I'll add it to my rental list for the next trip.


Solus wrote on May 14^th, 2009 at 7:23pm:

Pla: ...The MNII should be considerably faster and have better glide than nearly any aluminum canoe (the only al boat that might come close would be an 18.5 Beaver, a rare bird). It is an asymmetrical boat and is best paddled solo just aft of center- but it's length and wind catching ability makes this impractical at best.

I am not sure what we were doing wrong because it wasn't fast and it didn't glide. We could make it go fast enough with considerable paddling effort. However, the second you stopped paddling it felt like someone stepped on the brakes. The other canoes I have used would glide. All of our travel was on relatively small lakes with little to no wind. And, the canoe appeared to be fairly new (it certainly wasn't beat up). Btw, we had three of them on our trip. All three performed the same. And, all three seemed to have the portage yoke out of balance. I was just surprised by the way it performed after reading so many positive reviews.