What causes the mysterious physical action experienced by canoers and kayakers?

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Okay, it's only good form to post something here, so here goes.

I joined the site on a whim, simply to see if I could get any ideas about how to explain a certain type of physical action that canoers and kayakers commonly experience (which virtually none of them understand), and I got some good replies.

As for myself, I'm no physicist. My education is within the field of biology and my work involves the fieldwork aspect of soils engineering (there's no actual engineering processes involved with what I do, but common sense sure helps a bunch), but I dare say I do have a knack for mentally visualizing the principles behind forces and motion, so some of the really basic stuff that goes on here might interest me as time goes on.
 
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