In its human-powered form, the canoe is propelled by the use of paddles, with the number of paddlers depending on the size of canoe.
The latter is otherwise known as the InternationalCanoe, and is one of the fastest and oldest competitively sailed boat classes in the western world.
In the Pacific Islands, dugout canoes are very large, made from whole mature trees and fitted with outriggers for increased stability in the ocean, and were once used for long-distance travel.
Modern canoeing is no less sophisticated, but then neither are any of the fundamentals of speed, endurance or efficiency any less important to the Malta CanoeFederation.
A few years before the canoefederation was conceived (1991) the secretary of the InternationalCanoeFederation (ICF) visited Malta and saw the September traditional regatta.
It's perhaps somewhat ironic that 15 years on, it's canoeing and not rowing that's going international and with the continued assistance of the MOC and the ICF, local athletes are doing just that.
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