I Love Paddling

Canadian canoests Jonathan Pratt and Stephanie Park are spending the better part of their summer paddling from Tobermory, Ontario, on the northern tip of Lake Huron’s Bruce Penninsula, to Kingston, Ontario at the far eastern end of Lake Ontario. But that’s not the half of it. It’s more like a third of it. You see, […]

The Sammamish Review in Washington just published some video (above) and a fascinating story, HERE, about master canoe-carver John Mullen. Mullen, a member of the Snoqualmie Tribe, has revived his people’s nearly-lost canoe-carving tradition.  With advice from tribal elders and help from apprentices, he has completed four dug-out river and ocean-going canoes, as well as other, smaller efforts.  Mullen’s […]

A 180-year-old birchbark canoe dubbed “The Grandfather Canoe” which was forgotten for years at an Irish university, will be returned to Canada, the National University of Ireland, Galway announced Tuesday. The Daily Gleaner, a New Brunswick newspaper reports the story HERE, with a photo of the boat. As we’ve noted earlier — HERE and HERE— […]

Call it canoeing through horse country. When we think of North Dakota’s badlands, we don’t automatically think of canoes.  We think of Teddy Roosevelt, on a horse, hunting bison, with a big stick.  (Or something like that.) But a river runs through the heart of the western North Dakota badlands and the national park named […]

Teams of paddlers on London, Ontario’s Fanshawe Lake will propel their boats for twelve continuous hours in a charity relay to celebrate cancer survivorship called the Paddle for Life. The June 7th event, co-sponsored by Nova Craft Canoes, Veo Natural Spring Water, and the artist Philip Aziz, will donate its proceeds to Wellspring, a cancer support […]

The paddling duo of Andy Triebold and Steve Lajoie is racing like it’s still 2008. The team that swept last year’s North American “Triple Crown” canoe races, kicked of the 2009 season with a repeat victory last weekend at New York’s General Clinton Canoe Regatta. The General Clinton is the first jewel of the canoe racing trifecta that […]

Here’s one from our “Hat’s Off Department:” We recently learned about a program that northern Wisconsin’s Friends of St. Croix Headwaters has organized which seeks to provide educational canoeing opportunities to local students. It seemed like just the sort of thing deserving a vitual pat on the back. The program called Canoes on Wheels provides […]

We were delighted to learn from New Jersey’s The Star Ledger that middle and high school students from four New Jersey schools launched and paddled canoes last weekend—canoes they built themselves. Setting out in watercraft painted in their school colors and christened with names like “Chocolate Express” and “Wild Cat,” the students explored the Passaic […]