I Love Paddling

We enjoyed Brain Hunter’s advice for winter paddlers in the Sunbury, Pennsylvania Daily Item. In his article, HERE, Hunter notes that the flowing waters of Pennsylvania can still offer paddling opportunities in the winter months.  Safety is a factor, of course, and Hunter offers some practical advice for staying warm and dry — both in your canoe and […]

Thoreau paddled it, so why shouldn’t you? We enjoyed THIS recent story about paddling down Maine’s Allagash River, a river made famous by Henry David Thoreau’s The Maine Woods. The river, which since 1970 has been protected as the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, blends placid lakes and ponds with flowing water and streaming rapids. In Albert […]

We enjoyed this recent story about a canoe-based, northern Wisconsin deer hunt. St. Paul Pioneer Press outdoor writer Chris Niskanen and friends pushed out into the Namekagon River during the Wisconsin firearms deer season in an effort to take deer in a new way.  Their story is HERE. The group found deer hiding out on the river’s […]

Sign of the time or sign of the apocalypse … you be the judge. Our friends at Paddling Instructor brought to our attention THIS 2010 photo calendar of scantily clad canoe instructions from Great Britain’s Wye Valley Canoe Centre.  The instructors stripped down to raise money for some local charities. You can see some of […]

Nick Turnbull and Murray Jowett, two University of Winnipeg students who were attempting to canoe from Winnipeg to New Orleans this fall, have changed their plans due to an accident last week. The pair had their canoe swamped by high winds and waves on the Mississippi River near Muscatine, Iowa.  The duo lost much of […]

Old Town Canoes & Kayaks, a storied name in North American canoe-building, has moved its operation into a single new factory, Johnson Outdoors, Old Town’s parent company, has announced. Previously, Old Town built boats in two facilities in Old Town, Maine, work which will now be carried out in a new 136,000 square-foot facility. In […]

You never can tell what you might discover on a canoe outing.  Mastodon tusks, however, rank fairly low on the list likely finds. But for paddler Glen Keeton of Mount Hope, New York, tusks of the extinct mammal were exactly what he found one year ago on a canoe outing with a friend down New York’s Wallkill River.  Keeton spotted […]

Maori artist George Nuku is restoring an early 19th century war canoe known as a “waka” at the National Museum of Scotland. As the BBC reports, HERE, Nuku, a carver and sculptor from New Zealand who is tattooed with traditional Maori facial markings, is restoring the boat with a blend of traditional and contemporary designs […]