Thank you, Russ and Matt.
This is the second last chute on the whitewater course, actually just an easy and fast slide, but on the bottom of the chute you have to make a 180 degree turn and paddle upstream to pass the gate on the left. And from there you peel off again into another rapid below the chute which takes you through the finish gate. The picture below shows another paddler in the peel-off manouver entering the rapid. It's a nice feeling doing such a manouver. First, you paddle slowly sideways into the rapid and as soon as you cross from the calm water into the rapid, the current pushes the bow downstream, turns the boat by 90 degrees and effectively straightens it into the direction of the rapid.
I used to run this river 30 years ago solo in a 16.5' long Mad River canoe which was actually a medium-size expedition tandem canoe with a shallow V-shape, relatively large and heavy for a solo paddler, but still manageable.