While a canoe definately seems to have less paddle-ability and less comfort than a kayak, a canoe has plenty of row-ability when you add a center mount rowing seat like one from
www.rowingrigs.com. The overall shape of a canoe works pretty good for rowing the Winnipesaukee choppy waters, and at much, much less cost than a low-to-the-water Alden or similarly designed rowing skull.
About 20-30-40(?) years ago, there was a rowing rig made from 1" tubular steel that attached to a canoe's gunnels with four screws, called an A-Row-Bic, and it had a sliding seat with two oar lock outriggers, which apparently is no longer in business and not found even on Google or Craigslist, so that makes it very long gone! I have one which works very good. It's the type of design that could be made in someone's New Hampshire home workshop by Uncle Buck. Probably, if Wal-Mart sold one today, it would probably sell for approximately $59.94, as opposed to the $495 Scout Rig in the link above, and the out-of-business A-Row-Bic was a similar design.
Go to craigslist-NH-for sale-boats, enter canoe into the search, and you get over 100 hits dated April 10 to April 24, so right now is probably just about the best NH used canoe buyers market ever, ever. Could be that everyone has switched to a kayak or something, and that old Grumman, Alumacraft, Mad River or Old Town canoe has been sitting around unused for years and people just want them gone.
Who knows, maybe the Canoe Restaurant wants to fill one up with dirt and plant some canoe-flowers next to their parking lot or something? Like, what else do people do with all these all old, dirt cheap canoes today?