I have used canoes with 6hp Evinrudes for many decades and have spent more than significant time in many different canoes. I have never seen one flip with a side-mounted motor.
L O L .... Obviously you were never in a canoe with my brother-in-law
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Cost me my wallet and all the BS that goes along with no hunting/fishing licence (when your a guest in a foreign country) , drivers licence, credit card, let alone the cash in it. We were on a northern pike fishing trip up in Quebec on the Dumoine River.
If anyone finds my wallet, I'd still like it back....