My cousin has one mounted on a 14-ft aluminum "John Boat". If I remember correctly, it has 13 lbs of thrust. At the high setting, it will get the boat moving pretty qucikly. As far as battery life, we can go out in the morning for duck hunting with lights and the motor on (all off the same battery), collect the decoys and return to the dock; and still have time to do some fishing and trolling later in the day. The motor has a chart of battery life vs. speed. I believe at high speed (setting 5), it has 2.5 hours of battery life; and at low (setting 1), it could run for 13 hours... All of this is on an aluminum flat-bottom boat; so I don't know how it would perform on a canoe. If I had to guess, I would say it would do better on a canoe, since it is smaller, lighter, ect.

I use a trolling motor on my 11 ft jon boat and one on my bass boat... they are great. Each motor will tell you the hours of operation you can expect at the various speeds. They work very well. You will of course have to get a battery or two and a charger to support it.

I need to correct my post. His trolling motor is a 30 thrust-pound electric trolling motor.

optima yellow top. i use one in my 12 fiber glass row boat for my primary trolling motor wich is my only motor . i charged it at the biging of the summer and used it on and off but it still has 3/4 charge but it's a heavy sob