It was a crazy bad wind storm with winds much stronger than we normally get. The damage isn't all that big of a deal. It's probably 1/2 day of work to fix. I don't think I'd use carbon fiber again in a wood boat in this way again. I gotta believe that I've taken worse when paddling and come out okay. I feel for anyone that's using carbon fiber on the inside of their kayaks and I've seen it in a few builds in the last year.

: CF is very strong in tension but weak in compression along the
: fibre, when the canoe hit the tree, the CF was put under high
: compression loads and failed. There's also an imbalance in
: 'strength' if the CF is only on one side, the glass stretches a
: bit more than CF letting the outside stretch and putting the CF
: in compression. CF on the outside as well might have stabilised
: the 'strengths' and not failed. Though smacking into a tree
: never does a canoe any good.