Low-cost shipping!

We will ship your new Souris River canoe to most points in Canada and the continental U.S. for only $300.

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for details.

Le Tigre Canoe!

Fabric and Colour Options

Woven Colour

Imagine a green canoe which, when impacted, doesn’t have its colour scrape off or flake off, as so often happens with gel-coated and painted canoes. The reason this doesn’t happen with the woven colour canoe is because our colours are enclosed within the laminate. The outer layer is actually a coloured fabric.

This unique idea from Souris River Canoes eliminates
the six to eight extra pounds of weight our
competitors must add to their canoe hulls to
provide a colour option.

Our competitors’ gel-coated or painted canoes give
you an attractive show-room finish, but this benefit
hardly justifies the sacrifices made so that those
canoes can still be “ultra-light”. The most common
tradeoff is giving up fabric strength to compensate
for the weight of the gel-coat. Most other
manufacturers build their ultra-light canoes with one
and even two fewer layers of fabric than you’ll find
in a Souris River Canoe.

Souris River uses four layers of fabric in every canoe
we build and that’s four full non-seamed layers
everywhere, bottom and sides. As a result, our woven colour canoes are beautiful and lightweight and strong. They are much more resilient than gel coated canoes because, apart from being heavy, gel-coat is also brittle and when impacted will often star-crack and peel off. This won’t happen to a woven colour hull as a Souris River Canoe woven colour will simply flex and bounce away on impact. Surprisingly, many scratches will become less visible or virtually disappear when wiped with a rag and a bit of common urethane varnish.

Our woven colour canoes are all manufactured using epoxy resin as the bonding agent, so they possess the same incredible toughness as you’ll find in our clear models.

Le Tigre

Our most popular selling canoe colour in the last few years has been our Le Tigre design. Unique to Souris River Canoes, this innovative pattern simply exceeded all of our expectations in customer appeal since its introduction in early 2000. The striped black and gold Kevlar with its unique logo can be seen everywhere canoes are paddled these days. In construction, a Le Tigre is identical to our conventional Kevlar hull in all ways. The pattern on the outer layer of cloth is what gives Le Tigre its distinctive appearance. Check one out at your nearest Souris River Canoes dealer. We’re sure you will love the cosmetic effect. The incredible canoe beneath is your bonus.