There used to be a web page with advice about putting on canoe-O meets, but it was on geocities (
https://web.archive.org/web/20091027010801/http://...) and it got bulldozed. And the backup was on a work computer that was lost when Aims retired.
His one piece of advice when I asked him just now was that anyone putting on a canoe-O should have participated in (and ideally directed) both an orienteering meet and a canoe race.