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For $400 on Craigslist-NH you can find used two-seat kayaks made by Old Town and others, designed for two paddlers, that go for maybe $1000 when new.

For paddling a lake, an old aluminum canoe selling for three or four hundred for two works excellent, and is easy to store in the winter, outdoors. Set it upside down on two supports, and forget it till spring.

Aluminum canoes will have a 3/4" or one inch keel running their length, so they go very straight with a small battery powered trolling motor as well as paddles. Aluminum canoes made by Grumman, Michicraft, Alumacraft, Starcraft and others can be bought for short money on NH, Me, Vt, and Mass Craigslist.

A 15' aluminum canoe makes an excellent Lake Winnipesaukee row boat for one rower plus a passenger in the stern when set up with a rowing rig in the center, and is incredibly stable to Lake Winnipesaukee waves and wakes. Call it a 'love canoe' because the rower and stern passenger face each other with the rower doing all the work.