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This isn’t the first time Polynesian voyaging canoes have caught our fancy — we’ve talked about them HERE and HERE before.  Still, THIS comprehensive Reuters story about the renaissance in traditional Polynesian canoe-seafaring warranted another post on the subject, we thought.  Prompting the Michael Perry story is news that a Polynesian voyaging canoe will set sail […]

Before 2008 grows too small in the rear-view mirror, we wanted to properly note the Florida Keys Paddling Atlas by Bill and Mary Burnham. The beautiful and informative guide book was the winner in the Outdoor Adventure Guidebook category of the 2008 National Outdoor Book Awards. While the Keys are considered more of a sea-kayak […]

We enjoyed THIS story in Missouri’s Springfield News-Leader about a group of paddlers who took advantage of a warm January day to steal a trip down Arkansas’ Buffalo River in winter. With weather in the upper 60s, the group floated a 10 mile stretch of the Buffalo National River from Ponca to Kyle’s Landing. Prepared […]

An outdoor education professor at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin has designed a canoe paddle for single-armed use that she hopes will make canoe paddling more accessable to people with upper limb impairments. Cindy Dillenschneider’s paddle — shown on her web site HERE — consists of a typical blade and shaft, a shoulder harness and […]

A large public lands and wilderness bill — the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 — which includes the designation of rivers in seven states as “National Wild and Scenic Rivers,” is headed to the House of Representatives. The New York Times reported on the bill’s passage out of the Senate last week, HERE, and then […]

In baseball, they call it the Hot Stove League — when fans enjoy the sport in the winter off-season by talking about it around the “hot stove.” Canoeists, the ones in more northerly climes anyway, have their own Hot Stove League — their season when participating in their favorite activity may not be practical, but preparing […]

Your favorite web site — or so we’d like to think — has gotten a new look! As you may have already noticed, Canoeing.com redesigned it’s homepage this week. We’ve added some new features — like a Google Search bar, videos, and a drop-down menu short-cut to information on popular canoeing destinations — and tried […]

Be careful of what you purchase at a garage sale, via eBay, or from an ad in the newspaper. Quentin Rees, who’s book The Cockleshell Canoes is due to be released in North America in March, wasn’t fascinated by the small boats that British commandos used to fight the Germans in World War II until […]