[trainerdave]

Lock your canoe to a tree somewhere upstream by the river on a bus route after you drop it off your vehicle. Drive your vehicle downstream. Take your fishing stuff in a backpack on the bus up to your canoe. Float the river. An electric motor will not propel you very far upstream, and a gas motor on a canoe is not adjustable enough for the shallow water in the city. Kind of tough to haul your canoe/life jackets/paddle/safety gear and a motor and a battery and all your fishing stuff up the bike path when you have run out of juice. Likewise with a motor/gas and all the above too. Good luck. When you hit gravel your motor swivels and slams forward right out of the water and face down inside your canoe/boat and good luck reaching the controls when they are out of view; when your motor is on full throttle shooting gravel,spilling fuel and the sudden stop launches you out of the boat hopefully not on to the prop...and the current takes it all back down... not sure about a motor in the city, but great access to buses..

My opinion. Too much trouble and very dangerous with a motor, especially alone.. Just float it and have fun.
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