What is the average weight of canoes, kayaks, and rowboats?

Which one would be easiest to be carried about 250' to the river's edge by one person?|||Kayaks are easiest for one person to carry in most cases. I have 4 kayaks, ranging from 32 pounds (a wood-framed, nylon skin boat) to a 62 pound plastic boat, but even though I am an average sized woman, I can carry any one of them balanced on one shoulder that far or longer to the water. I also have a small collapsible two wheeled cart that I can use to roll the larger boats.





I've portaged a canoe solo before and it's kind of a bear unless it's a short and really expensive fiberglass boat.





Rowboats are a pain to carry because they are so wide -- I have never hauled one alone and would probably not even try. Though the latest issue of "Wooden Boats" magazine I just saw on the newstand has full instructions inside for building a cool little wooden rowboat/dorry with a built in recessed tire so you can wheel it down to the shore just like a wheelbarrow. Looks like it would be pretty slow to paddle, however.|||There really isn't an "average" weight for the boats - it depends on what they're made of.





A 2 person canoe in metal (17 ' Grumman, e.g.) weighs around 85 pounds.


A 2 person canoe in Royalex (17' Wenonah, e.g.) weighs around 65 pounds.


The same canoe in Kevlar can weigh as little as 42 pounds.





If you can get one in carbon fiber, it's even lighter.





Kayaks typically have water tight compartments, which means they have bulkheads that seal those compartments off. That adds potential for additional weight. Plastic kayaks are heavier than fiberglass, and fiberglass is heavier than kevlar. Again, you can get really light light kayaks too - surfskis and outrigger canoes weigh as little as 20 pounds, but you can't carry any "stuff" in them.





Probably best to figure out what you want to do with your boat when you get to the water - make that decision and figure out which hull will meet those needs. THEN decide on which construction material (metal, fiberglass, royalex, kevlar) fits the weight needs. The lighter the material, the more expensive the boat... if money is an issue, you might want to consider a heavier boat and a set of portage wheels.|||kayaks are usually 35-50 lbs depending on if they are sit in, sit on top, single, tandem, etc. they also differ in weigh depending on what they are made of, like plastic, carbon fiber, or fabric.





canoes are a little bit more, being around 80 lbs, depending on material and size also.





rowboats vary a lot...so im not sure about that though.