I Love Paddling

You won’t find specifications for a flying canoe in the Canoeing.com Canoe Guide, but with the holiday season nearing its high-water mark, we thought we should spend a little time talking about flying canoes all the same. You see, after recently reporting that Shelley Posen debuted an original poem at the Canadian Canoe Museum in […]

Do you feel like the holidays are approaching faster than a gnarly rapids on a raging river? Are you worried about just what to get the paddlers on your shopping list? Fear not holiday shoppers, the elves at Canoeing.com are here to help! They’ve just published their Ultimate Paddler Gift Guide, featuring nearly two dozen […]

To the list of canoeing hazards like rocks, low-head dams, sweepers, and strainers we should apparently add hippos, at least when paddling in Africa. Three British scout leaders, who were undertaking a 2,500 mile paddle down the Niger River in a dugout canoe, had their boat overturned by an unseen hippopotamus submerged in the water. […]

When we saw THIS dispiriting story from Reuters today, reporting on the impending demise of the Kawesqar tribe in Patagonia, we were reminded of the role the canoe played in the lives of the Kawesqar and other tribes living on the southern tip of South America. According to the story, with only 12-20 pure-blooded members […]

Perhaps it’s time to add canoes to your Christmas decoration plans. Canadian folklorist Shelly Posen, the Peterborough Examiner reports HERE, knew he wanted to debut his new poem “The Christmas Canoe” among its namesake watercraft. And indeed, the first reading of the poem, based on a Quebecois folk tale about loggers who make a deal […]

Next summer, a canoe brigade is scheduled to paddle to the length of Ontario’s Ottawa River to raise awareness for a waterway that is now on-track to earn Canadian Heritage River designation, the Pembroke, Ontario Daily Observer reports, HERE, Three 21-foot canoes — the Kichi Sibi, L’Outaoais and the Ottawa — which bear the names for the river in Algonquin, French, and […]

If winter dreams of next summer’s canoe trips have left you longing for the calm of a northern lake or the challenge of the portage, Larry Christianson’s poetry will have you back there in no time. In spirit, at least. The Minnesota poet and pastor explores the essence of the wilderness experience in his new […]

We were intrigued by an upcoming exhibit of military canoes at the British National Maritime Museum, which we learned about in THIS story in The Packet.  While we were aware that canoes were used in warfare in pre-industrial times, we didn’t know they helped the Allies win World War II.  It turns out the British […]