A canoe is a lightweight, narrow watercraft, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using paddles.
A B.N. Morris Canoe Company wood-and-canvas canoe built approximately 1912
Birch bark canoe at Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine
Frances Anne Hopkins: Shooting the Rapids (Quebec) (1879), Voyageur canoe
Dugout canoe of pirogue type in the Solomon Islands
An inflatable boat is a lightweight boat constructed with its sides and bow made of flexible tubes containing pressurized gas. For smaller boats, the floor and hull are often flexible, while for boats
Canoe
…Folding canoes usually consist of a PVC skin around an aluminum frame. Inflatable canoes contain no rigid frame members and can be deflated, inflated, folded, and stored in bags and boxes. The more durable types consist of an…
A PVC inflatable boat on a beach
A modern, specialized rigid inflatable boat
The Nonpareil inflatable boat
A two-man Halkett boat, with and without its canvas cover