I did a few trips to LaVerendrye with a guy who had a baker type tent. It was a bear to portage, he used a huge Duluth Pack to stuff it in. It did take up alot of room in a canoe, and took a while to set up. Lots of guy ropes all over the place to trip you up at night.
It was tough to set up on rocky surfaces and the fire pit wasn't always in the right spot. Way too much work for me, but fun to sit inside in the evening with a small fire under the tent flap out front.
cooking under the flap over a fire, very nice, but lots of ropes around.
I saw a small baker tent at the Maine Canoe Symposium, it looked like 2 people could lay lengthwise inside, it had a floor and bug screen and room for a small fire under the front flap, very neat little tent.
I bought a 8x10 wall tent which I planned to use for early and late season canoe trips in the ADK's, here is the outfit with an internal frame. Talk about heavy, almost too much stuff for even car camping.
Although I have never sewn, I bought an old sewing machine as my wife's is off limits, and cut that wall tent down to 7x6 with a 5'4" ridge height. I built a lite weight interior frame out of hardwood dowels and the angle kit I got with the tent.
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The tent now fits in a #3 Duluth Pack with room to spare, the frame is bulky, but fits into a longer duffle bag I have and carries well over a portage.
The stove was cut down to 12x12x12 and that's still too big, I'm looking at 12x12x8" high as it just throws off too much heat for the smaller space.
Best of all, the tent sets up real fast, so it can be used on a traveling canoe trip, plenty of room for two with room to spare.