I see a huge methological flaw here - namely an improper sampling procedure. Canoe owners tend to be interested in camping trips more so than kayak owners because the canoe, as a vessel, lends itself better to wilderness trips, which, of necessity, requires transporting one's canoe from one's home to some wilderness put-in, and therefore canoeists do a lot more car-topping of their boats than do kayakers since the latter tend to use their kayaks more for recreational trips along more local waterways or oneone's cottage lake, which doesn't require car-topping. Kayaks, after all, are just not as suitable a vessel for backcountry camping trips as are canoes. So, as long as you are standing over highway 11 in Muskoka in front of Weber's burger joint, you are going to see more canoes being car-topped, but that's only a measure of car-topping behaviour, not actually a reliable measure of kayak usage vs canoe usage. A better method would be to note the trend in sales of canoe vs kayaks in recent years. My own research team, P.A.D.D.L.E ("Pedantic A**holes Diligently Debunking Lousy Experiments "), will be conducting preliminary studies in the coming year. Sincerely, Martin
I just checked with the team...sample data ranged from Kingston to Thunder Bay. We're hedging that it's a good enough size to account for everyone's activities (although we won't even talk about the outlier August 5th date where Kayaks won... *grumble* *grumble*).
LOL! Funny vid. We have one of each on top of ours.
I see a huge methological flaw here - namely an improper sampling procedure. Canoe owners tend to be interested in camping trips more so than kayak owners because the canoe, as a vessel, lends itself better to wilderness trips, which, of necessity, requires transporting one's canoe from one's home to some wilderness put-in, and therefore canoeists do a lot more car-topping of their boats than do kayakers since the latter tend to use their kayaks more for recreational trips along more local waterways or oneone's cottage lake, which doesn't require car-topping. Kayaks, after all, are just not as suitable a vessel for backcountry camping trips as are canoes.
So, as long as you are standing over highway 11 in Muskoka in front of Weber's burger joint, you are going to see more canoes being car-topped, but that's only a measure of car-topping behaviour, not actually a reliable measure of kayak usage vs canoe usage. A better method would be to note the trend in sales of canoe vs kayaks in recent years.
My own research team, P.A.D.D.L.E ("Pedantic A**holes Diligently Debunking Lousy Experiments "), will be conducting preliminary studies in the coming year.
Sincerely,
Martin
I just checked with the team...sample data ranged from Kingston to Thunder Bay. We're hedging that it's a good enough size to account for everyone's activities (although we won't even talk about the outlier August 5th date where Kayaks won... *grumble* *grumble*).