The audio from this clip is quite entertaining, but despite two very frustrating hours of trying I just can’t get it to upload.
This was our first time at this particular lake, and we were not aware of the remnants of an old dam just below the surface. The pedal drive fins kick up but that still leaves about an inch and a half of the drive sticking downwards from the bottom of the canoe. Even then it’s usually not a problem unless the surface that you hit is perfectly vertical. (For example, it will ride over a log or at least the impact will be spread out over a longer time.) In this case we basically took a direct hi,t which is not an insignificant amount of force when you consider the momentum of 350 pounds moving forward and then coming to an instant stop. I can’t say what would happen if you were moving at 5 mph with a full camping load but the fact that the drive and the boat handled this impact and suffered no damage is a good sign.
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