1.   An avid canoeist who once wrote a guide to New England rivers and helped develop the first practical aluminum canoe, he was also an inveterate yachtsman.

2.   From the same dock, you can take an aluminum canoe and paddle for hours around the lake, searching after the hidden source of the loon calls.

3.   He navigated scores of tributaries of the Amazon River, using an aluminum canoe that he could handle himself, though he usually hired Indians as paddlers and guides.

4.   I took an old aluminum canoe.

5.   I had no wish to be sitting in an aluminum canoe waving a graphite rod under such conditions.

6.   We were paddling an aluminum canoe under a canopy of trees on a narrow river that wound through cedar-smelling woods and swamps.