Prospector16 wrote:
I'd look at a Prospector 16 design with a keel for better tracking, and as per recped if you are doing flatwater not sure why you want Royalex. Look at Blue Steel or Tuff Stuff or one of the other basalt innegra layups.
The only problem with a keel is that most people here will mock you for it but it does work
Ok I said "royalex style material" by this I simply mean plastic, durable, and fairly light, for a middling price. It doesn't actually have to be royalex(Tformex) but just similar performance.
Frankly I want to find every web designer for ever canoe website and yell at them until they cry and seek therapy, because canoe maker websites are universally useless.
I'm here because their websites are garbage.
I don't know anything about the different materials other than I want as light as possible this side of carbon fiber, I want durable because I want a thing that costs $2-3K to actually last a long time, I don't want fibreglass, aluminum, or wood. Other than that I'm very open to material choices.
I always hear not to get a keel, I'm willing to follow that if it's good advice, though I'm also willing to murder anyone who says "just perfect your J-stroke" so keep that in mind. I find well tracking canoes to be the most enjoyable.