what to do with your new canoe...

A friend recently bought a canadian canoe/kayak very cheap from a warehouse discount-type shop thingie. One of those random impulse purchases, I'm still not sure if he knows why he bought it? Anyway, he wants to use it on public canals and lakes etc when he goes camping but wasnt sure about the legalities of it?

After a bit of digging around I found that he can use it at quite a few local stretches of water all he needs to do is make sure he has third party boat insurance as a minimum, to cover him again any accidents where damage is done to another vessel or to inanimate objects, like bridges and banks etc