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   Canoe Nomenclature

  • Beam: The width of the canoe, typically provided in three measurements: waterline, gunwale and maximum width.
  • Bow: The front end of the canoe.
  • Carry Handle: handle used to carry the canoe, you can use the deck also.
  • Carry Thwart or Yoke: ergonomically curved thwarts designed to make carrying canoes easier on your shoulders. Often includes two yoke pads for more comfort.
  • Chine: a sharp change in angle in the cross section of a hull.
  • Deck: wood pieces fitted between gunwales at the extreme canoe ends.
  • Draft: portion of the hull below waterline.
  • Freeboard: portion of the hull between gunwales and waterline.
  • Flotation: Buoyant material set into the ends (or other panels) of a canoe to make it float if upset.
  • Foot-brace: A wood or metal bar against which a paddler braces his or her feet. Foot-braces help secure the paddler in the canoe and so add to the efficiency of his or her strokes.
  • Gunwale: Trim around the Shear-line to stiffen hull and mount thwarts, seats, carry handles, decks.
  • Hogged: A canoe with a bent-in keel or keel-line.
  • Hull: body of canoe, symmetrical hull (the shape of the canoe is identical fore and aft)   The widest point of a asymmetrical canoe is not at center.
  • Initial/Primary Stability: Steadiness when upright and paddled under calm conditions.
  • Inwale: the inner part of the Gunwale.
  • Inwale Slots: Machined into the inwale to offer an alternative aesthetic look & provide tying points, reduces weight a small amount and allows water to drain when canoe is inverted.
  • Keel-line: Center-line on bottom of canoe, extending from bow to stern. Sometimes with a keel strip, sometimes without, depending on construction.
  • Kneeling Thwart: offers an alternative solo paddling position.
  • Leeward: A sheltered place out of the wind. Also, the direction toward which the wind is blowing.
  • Outwale: the outer part of the Gunwale.
  • Painters: Ropes attached to the bow and stern of a canoe used for lining or pulling.
  • Planking: flat sections of wood forming the hull, fitted lengthwise over ribs, in wood canoes.
  • Ribs: curved pieces of wood to attach planking, forming cross-sections of hull, in wood canoes.
  • Rocker: viewed from the side of the canoe, rocker is the amount of curve along the keel-line or bottom of the hull.
  • Scupper: cutout in a deck to allow water to drain out.
  • Secondary/Final stability: The resistance to capsizing in wind, waves or lean.
  • Shear-line: top edge extending around the canoe hull from bow to stern.
  • Skid plate: A piece of thick Kevlar® that is glued to the bottom ends of a canoe. Prevents abrasion of the skin of the canoe.
  • Stem: The most extended part of the bow or stern, ascending from the keel to the deck.
  • Stern: The rear end of the canoe.
  • Thwart: crosswise supports between gunwales which help canoe maintain shape
  • Tracking: The ease with which a canoe can be paddled along a straight line.
  • Tumblehome: The inward curve of the sides of a canoe above the waterline.
  • Waterline: The place to which water comes on the hull of the canoe when it is set in the water.
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