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im sure a trip to a car exhaust shop using exhaust pipe and their bender would have made a yoke that lasted longer..

IF your going to do that, I'd buy some AIRCRAFT grade aluminum tubing on-line ( not that expensive). I'd get some heavy copper tubing something you could bend with a hand tubing bender.
Make yourself a template that your happy with and then have the exhaust shop match it.

Leave the total length longer than the distance between where your going to bolt on.

Take some pieces of hardwood and use a shop vise to flatten the tubing so you can make and bolt into existing yolk holes.

Lot's of good and different yoke ideas on-line. Not all are for everybody, but if you own your own canoe, then you have ALL winter to tinker and find what works best for you?

Some people make tubing yokes and use a tumpline. Not for everyone obviously. Yoke rides across his shoulders on his pack straps.

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Cliff Jacobson uses this combo-method. I think this idea has much merit.

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