Wednesday 22 March 2017

Facts About Canoe, A Relaxing And Thrilling Experience

By Anthony Thompson


Traveling to other places sparks a new adventure and experience for travelers. It is either to learn about the history of a location and be immersed in its beauty, or doing outdoor activities and venture to different lands and waters of the destination. Activities like hiking, mountain biking, cliff diving, kayaking and other adrenaline exciting exercises.

Trip experience relies on its destination and what it can offer for tourists. Just like what Foggy Bottom canoe presents to their visitors, they provide canoe experience for those who wants to try it. The place has a calm river surrounded by beautiful nature that tourists can take pictures or have a picnic on the side of the river.

Apart from being mesmerized by the gorgeous place and its history, the activity too has quite of a background before becoming an established form of sport. Started in some areas of Europe comprises of having a single blade paddle used to paddle the boat. From way back before, it was distinguished as a classical way of transportation, and modernized as an official transit in the 19th century.

And as years go by, the organization came up with an idea of making the means of traveling into an exciting sport which eventually held its first Olympic competition in summer of 1936. The event promoted the activity to other nations and started getting orders of boats that is used today as a tourists attraction. The sport can be thrilling than expected, especially when the rivers of the localities are rapid.

Tourists that only want to experience safely have the option of going through subtle rivers, good for exploring the natural environment with kids and teach them about the beauty of nature. The staff that is responsible for delivering instructions and guides are required to be trained and friendly to visitors, most importantly when giving instructions related to canoe. Compared to other family activities, kayaking is quite similar to the other exercises for having guidelines before trying the waters.

For experienced canoers just like those who represent in competitions such as sprint canoe are more likely to go for fast current rivers. Sprint canoe competitors position themselves in a kneeling position and the less water contact to the boat, the faster it gets. The reason why canoes have various sizes and models depending on the type of use.

There are kayaks that measure 33 inches, narrow enough to be fast and more efficient in terms of paddling, this is what sprint canoers use. However, this model has a poor initial stability, making it difficult to balance on the first try. The first timer might have a hard time balancing themselves on this one.

Medium length, on the other hand, having a size of approximately 34 to 37 inches wide has a good blend of stability and capacity. It can be ride by two people for its wide area, very versatile and can be paddled solo or tandem. However, it comes second to narrow sizes when it comes to speed and even has a lower initial stability compared to the last one.

Wide sized kayaks have 38 inches width that has a higher initial stability compared to the two. Advisable for fishing and photography due to its slow pace, poor glide and difficult to paddle alone. Sounds like an easy fishing activity, but judging by its activities, this one is worth writing on the bucket list.




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