hi mike,

nice report and pictures.

decked boats are new class of boats to me. they look somewhat like sea
kayaks with really big cockits.

are they canoes, kayaks, hybrids?

do they handle more like a canoe or a kayak?

what do you consider main pros and cons of decked boats versus a canoe
or sea kayak?

al kubeluis

Al, Decked canoes are a sort of hybrid that offer the seaworthiness of
a kayak with the gear storage, accessibility and paddling comfort of a
canoe. The history of decked touring canoes harkens back to Inuit
designs of a bygone era, flows onward to John MacGregor's first Rob
Roy, chinker-built to his specifications in 1865, takes a turn to west
coast big water with James van Nostrand's lightning-fast Sea-1 and
makes a giant leap toward the penultimate solo expedition boat with
Verlen Kruger's decades long design experimentation that produced the
Loon, the Monarch and finally, the Sea Wind.

They paddle well with a single blade, but can also be doubled, and many
can be sailed as well.