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Canoe orienteering (canoe-O) is an orienteering sport using a canoe, kayak, or other small boat. Usually, a canoe-O is a timed race in which one- or two-person boats start at staggered intervals, are timed, and are expected to perform all navigation on their own. Portages are allowed.
The men's K-2 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing between August 18 and 22. The K-2 event is raced in two-person kayaks. Competition consists of three rounds: the heats, the semifinals, and the final. All boats compete in the heats.
Six-person outrigger canoes (or OC6) are among the most commonly used for sport use; single-person outrigger canoes (or OC1) are also very common. Two and four-person outrigger canoes are also sometimes used, and two six-person outrigger canoes are sometimes rigged together like a catamaran to form a twelve-person double canoe.
The plastic hull allows these kayaks to bounce off rocks without leaking, although they scratch and eventually puncture with enough use. Whitewater kayaks range from 1.2 to 3.0 m (4 to 10 ft) long. There are two main types of whitewater kayak, playboats and river-running boats. Creekboats (for small rivers) and squirt boats are more specialized.
When a competition is listed as a K-2 500m event, for example, it means two people are in a kayak competing over a distance of 500 metres. [2] Paracanoe competitions are contested in either a va'a (V), an outrigger canoe (which includes a second pontoon) with a single-blade paddle, or in a kayak (as above). All international competitions are ...
Using oars in pairs, with one hand on each oar, is two-oar sculling. The oars may also be called sculls. [2] Two-oared sculled craft include: Adirondack guideboat; Banks dory, Gloucester dory, and McKenzie River dory; Dinghy; Sampans rowed by foot in Ninh Bình Province of northern Vietnam. [3] Scull, Single scull, Double scull, Quad scull, and ...