Uh oh. What’s that sound? Crashing, twig-snapping, brush-stomping . . . oh, it’s only Camping Knowledge. Well, sit back and expose your soft gut, so that Camping Knowledge might consume you more easily.
Did you know …
That your modern canoe is modeled after the bellies of ducks? It’s true!
Canoe scientists realized long ago that you’d be hard pressed to create a more hydrodynamic buoyant shape than the underside of a duck, so they basically chopped the legs off and handed the design to the canoe manufacturing industry. Voila!
Aside from the legs, another duck feature noticeably absent from most canoes is the cloaca. At the time, scientists believed it wasn’t necessary to reproduce the cloaca in canoes, but believe you me, there are occasions when you absolutely wish there was an additional way to remove the swampy mixture of feces and uric acid from your boat.
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