Souris River Canoes

Fabric and Colour Options

Carbon-tec

One of Souris River’s alternative options to regular Kevlar construction is our carbon fibre canoe.

If you are looking for a canoe with a stunningly rich, charcoal finish that weighs even less than pure Kevlar, this may be your ride.

Carbon (graphite) fibre is only marginally less durable than Kevlar and creates a hull that’s a little stiffer than Kevlar. While there are some concerns with our competitors’ carbon hulls being a little on the brittle side, ours is not. Epoxy resin makes our canoes significantly tougher, and having Kevlar backing up our carbon outer fabric ensures that you needn’t be concerned about durability. Carbon fibre fabrics are more expensive than Kevlar but, if you want the ultimate in lightweight strength, the additional cost is well worth it.

Woven Color

Imagine a green canoe which, when impacted, doesn’t have its colour scrape off or flake off, as so often happens with gel-coated and painted canoes. The reason this doesn’t happen with the woven colour canoe is because our colours are enclosed within the laminate. The outer layer is actually a coloured fabric.

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This unique idea from Souris River Canoes eliminates the six to eight extra pounds of weight our competitors must add to their canoe hulls to provide a colour option.

Our competitors’ gel-coated or painted canoes give you an attractive show-room finish, but this benefit hardly justifies the sacrifices made so that those canoes can still be “ultra-light”. The most common tradeoff is giving up fabric strength to compensate for the weight of the gel-coat. Most other manufacturers build their ultra-light canoes with one and even two fewer layers of fabric than you’ll find in a Souris River Canoe.

Souris River uses four layers of fabric in every canoe we build and that’s four full non-seamed layers everywhere, bottom and sides. As a result, our woven color canoes are beautiful and lightweight and strong. They are much more resilient than gel coated canoes because, apart from being heavy, gel-coat is also brittle and when impacted will often star-crack and peel off. This won’t happen to a woven color hull as a Souris River Canoe woven color will simply flex and bounce away on impact. Surprisingly, many scratches will become less visible or virtually disappear when wiped with a rag and a bit of common urethane varnish.

Our woven color canoes are all manufactured using epoxy resin as the bonding agent, so they possess the same incredible toughness as you’ll find in our clear models.

Le Tigre

Our most popular selling canoe colour in the last few years has been our Le Tigre design. Unique to Souris River Canoes, this innovative pattern simply exceeded all of our expectations in customer appeal since its introduction in early 2000. The striped black and gold Kevlar with its unique logo can be seen everywhere canoes are paddled these days. In construction, a Le Tigre is identical to our conventional Kevlar hull in all ways. The pattern on the outer layer of cloth is what gives Le Tigre its distinctive appearance. Check one out at your nearest Souris River Canoes dealer. We’re sure you will love the cosmetic effect. The incredible canoe beneath is your bonus.

Canoe Profiles

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“Rocker” refers to the hull profile from end-to-end, whether straight or curved. It affects turning and tracking. Hull shape affects stability. A fl at bottom is stable in calm water, while a rounded hull sacrifi ces initial stability to improve wave handling qualities.

 

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