You don,t run them MT in big water, load the bow down and they do fine. The neat thing about the big canoe is the 21 ft Scott will carry 2000 lbs with a 20 HP about 18 MPH light load or about 12 MPH to 14 heavy load. 20 Gallons of fuel will go for long ways.

Here,s a thread I started a while back on AK Outdoors about the Scott Canoe
http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php/34344-Scott-Freighter-Canoes

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