Canoecopia 2019 Trip Report Part 2

I forgot to include several products that I saw at the Canoecopia 2019 show in my last Canoecopia Trip Report. I shot these products on my phone instead of my real camera and didn’t realize it until today. These two products surprised me more than any other at the show.

The first is the Kitigan Cross Canoe. It’s like a combination of a stand-up paddleboard, canoe and a sit-on-top kayak. You can walk on the deck, move seats around, stand up, carry gear, fish or even do yoga. It has hatches for dry storage. I has a retractable skeg. If it feels as stable on the water as a stand-up paddleboard, it would be more efficient because it uses an actual boat shape under water instead of a flat board shape. When talking to the owner of the company, I asked him for a two to three sentence elevator pitch. He said something like, it’s designed so that the canoe adapts to you and you don’t have to adapt to the canoe.

This is one of the more innovative boats that I’ve seen in a while. While I don’t think it would replace a canoe for me, I’d really like to try this out at some point. I think if you are into SUPs, you’re definitely going to want to check this out.

The second and last item from the show that caught my eye was the new Current Design’s Sisu. This is a Danish-designed kayak that is designed for rough water, but like many rough-water kayaks, it also is beginner friendly. It has a hybrid hard chine, which looks like a combination of a rounded chine fore and aft and a rail along the center of the kayak. I really want to paddle this kayak and probably in the LV version. It wasn’t a kayak that I had expected to see from Current Designs, which I usually think of as a company that produces American-style kayaks.