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All of the thwarts are round aluminum tube, and the yoke is fiberglass, molded into the hull, not a bolt-on like many of the other Clippers I have seen. It's ugly but surprisingly comfortable on the shoulders. My current idea is to mount a hardwood thwart on metal brackets just behind it and I...

It's the 16'8" Cascade. Its a big flat bottomed tripping boat. When I'm in it by myself and kneeling or even seated with my brother we are perfectly fine. It's when I bring my non-outdoorsy friends that it becomes an issue. You make an excellent point about intentionally capsizing to find it's...

That's what I was thinking. Add a thwart then bolt the outrigger to that. They are not very big, nowhere near as big as traditional canoe ourtiggers and I won't be leaning on them all the time so I think it will be fine.

My wife and friends don't have good sea legs and are scared of rolling it. Admittedly so am I deep down. I'm comfortable on boats but generally have poor balance.

The Davy Crockett canoe at Disneyland. I was really little, maybe 5 or 6 and I kept hitting my hands on those extra wide gunwales.

The other thing I was considering was adding brackets just under the gunwales like the factory mounts. It will be as high as possible on the hull, above the water line and I can silicon the rivets.

I have a Clipper canoe with hollow, slightly rounded aluminum gunwales (see image). I have things I want to mount to the gunwale, namely a set of outriggers. Can I drill and bolt/rivet to these without ruining them? Everything in the canoe is mounted on brackets riveted to the hull, nothing...