do they still make the keewee?
paddled one years ago and for a rec boat it was really nice—I could actually roll one fairly easily and it paddled well.
For those who hate noise
don’t ever get on a carbon race yacht!
You might not be able to hear it so well
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My Supernova makes a much louder gurgling sound at the bow than my Odyssey 14, but I myself can't hear it as well as other paddlers because the bow is full and flared, and blocks the sound from reaching me. Another thought: My dad hasn't been able to hear such sounds in more than 20 years, yet doctors say his hearing is fine. He just doesn't hear nearly as well as I do. Wind noise in your ears will make it harder to notice too. In solo canoes, the gurgling is always concentrated on the side of the bow opposite the paddle because there's slight yawing of the boat on every stroke. PJC's Blackhawk Starship is pretty silent at the bow, but even that boat, when he pours on the coal, creates a tiny curling wave on each side of the bow, and it can be heard. My Merlin II is pretty quiet too, but not as quiet as the Pat's Starship. Canoes that are good for racing are really quiet, but I wouldn't take one on the Wolf River (hense my "every boat has it's purpose" statement)
clue
my Chatham 16 makes a pretty curling bow wave and it’s not a crummy design. A Gulfstream does not have a pretty gurgling bow wave and it’s not a superior design. Just different.
Don’t paddle quiet water …
If that is all you have to worry about you need to pump up the excitement level a bit.
Bow noise
Perhaps the gray thing came loose.
Ear Plugs
They don’t help for the voices in my head, though.
add a gray thing
I have that trouble too…
…my 59th is Friday.
When does the noise happen?
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The thread is entertaining enough (a grey thing will help any boat and apparently there are a pile of ex-Olympic paddlers in the NW designing boats), but I am not seeing an answer to the first question I had. That is, when does the noise happen? All the time or at a certain speed?
My Vela sets up a noticeable bow wake and noise along with it at a certain point of speed, luckily not a speed I'd care to maintain for a long distance, but that's just a matter of what speed the hull design is optimized to handle. If I was regularly trying to paddle at that speed, the noise would be secondary to the fact that the boat was actually creating resistance in the water and the solution would be a hull design that was optimized for higher speeds.
If this is what is happening with your boat, you probably would be happier with a boat designed to go as fast as you want to.
If it is just a quiet gurgley noise and you aren't seeing a big bow wake up there, changing the trim of the boat would probably have more effect than anything else. That would put either more of less of the waterline to the bow into the water - depending on the specifics of what is going on either could work. Experiment with more or less weight forward and see what happens.
Leave the wife home?
You are talking about a tandem kayak correct?
Not a pile, a few
and I think they need P-net time to learn from the masters here…
scratch this boat off my terrrorist list
Can sneak up on anything with a noisy bow 
I had a problem with noise once
I had a problem with noise coming from the bow of my canoe once, but I got this device that stopped it. It fit right over her mouth, and I have not heard the noise since.
Glass smooth water or rippled surface.
Don’t most boats make bow noise on rippled water?