I sense

a canoe in the future, or some sort of rowboat in my future.

There was a guy I knew who was into Kayak competitions. His challenges were acrobatic, like getting one tip of the kayak to go into the water with the opposite tip pointed straight up into the sky, and then spinning the kayak in cricles -- could this really be true?

The sort of boating I want to do is slow and steady, like rowing to go a long way, an equivalent to walking all day. Living next to water might help.