Gato_Solo
Out-freaking-standing OTC member
beg all you want. It won't change the fact that I sank 6 canoes and left a dozen girl guides swimming to shore in very wet, very see through t-shirts ... and was the camp hero for that weekend. Yours obviously were equipped with flotation tanks. Theirs weren't.
If by floatation tanks you mean that small triangle of fiberglass over the bow and the stern I'd have to say no. The aluminum ones had them, but the ones I usually used had none. They were the old (late 1970's) 7 foot Coleman Canoes.