Maiden voyage for the "new" canoe

Several months before Katrina, I felt comfortable enough with the results of my extensive research (I tend to over-amp when deciding on any significant new acquisition)to purchase a 15' Mowhawk canoe. For many reasons, not the least of which being the hurricane, I never put the canoe into the water except for the mandatory test run in my pool on the very day I picked it up from the shipping company. Saturday was such a perfect blue-bird day, I had to get out into it. So, more than two years after its purchase, I decided to take the canoe to Jean Lafitte National Historic Park for its maiden voyage.