Upside down is distressing

I don’t like to see my boats upside down in the water.

It’s distressing.

When I was a kid, however, my friends and I would almost always flip my canoe. Like us, in our youth, it was unsinkable, so it didn’t really matter.

I’m still here. So is the canoe.

But as I grew older, unplanned dunkings lost their allure. If I want to get wet I go swimming.

I’ve owned a number of boats over the years, and with the exception of the canoe, none of them have ever flipped.

Until recently.

My friend E-dub and I were bass fishing out of my Hobie pedal-propelled kayaks on a small pond near the Can...