I am quiet experienced with canoes.
Accorse if you want to go on wild side. When I was in pacific I went on traditional sailing outrigger canoes. The navigators of these canoes can easily go hundreds even thousands of miles across open ocean. outer islands south of Guam still do this today, just like it use to be done across the pacific, and they do it often to meet family members.
Aside from that I do a lot of canoeing and kayaking too.
Anyone in pacific northwest into such?
Michael