Since Souris River Canoes can flex; do they “oil-can”?
A. Oil-canning is a term used to describe the bottom of some canoes which flex up and down as a wave passes under the canoe much like the flexing one must do to the bottom of an oil-can to pump the oil out the nozzle. It is not uncommon to see linear (one sheet) polyethylene (plastic) canoes with bottoms that flop up and down in the water. This makes for very inefficient paddling and one usually sees this when paddling any of the cheaper plastic canoes plus a fair number of expensive plastic canoes.
