Elegant lightweight cedar strip canoes hand-built to order in Vermont by Otter Creek Smallcraft

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CANOES

The Lutra is a multi-purpose canoe, suitable for recreation, day paddles or extended touring on flat water, gentle rapids or exposed lakes. It combines excellent initial stability with plenty buoyancy, lively manoeuvrability and good straight line speed and tracking. It is equally at home packed with family and camping gear as with a solitary angler. The light weight of course contributes to the ease of handling.

If you're a serious tourer and happy with slightly reduced initial stability, you may wish to check out the Sylva, but otherwise look no farther than the Lutra.

Lengths available: 12', 13', 14', 15', 16'.
Solo available in: 12', 13', 14'.
Double available in: 13', 14', 15', 16'.

The Sylva is a touring canoe for the connoisseur, the paddler who wishes to paddle and portage farther to more remote places, and wants a craft whose weight, handling and looks add to the joy of such travel.

The lines and light weight, together with excellent directional stability, allow for effortless acceleration and cruising. Whilst a little initial lateral stability is necessarily sacrificed in the interests of cruising ease and speed, the secondary stability provides excellent response in waves, allowing this canoe to tackle demanding open lake conditions.

Lengths available: 12', 13', 14', 15', 16'.
Solo available in: 12', 13', 14'.
Double available in: 13', 14', 15', 16'.

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