I Love Paddling

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 […]

Members of the environmental group Appalachian Voices recently paddled canoes on the Emory and Clinch Rivers near Kingston, Tennessee where a coal-ash spill at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant dumped one billion gallons of sludge onto the landscape.  They produced the short video of their trip below. The December 22 breach affected a 300 acre area of […]

… unless you are inclined to continue paddling.” So goes the saintly advice of Jean de Brébeuf, the French Jesuit missionary who paddled with the Hurons in the early days of New France. Brébeuf (pictured), who was canonized a Roman Catholic saint in 1930 along with seven other “North American Martyrs,” offered his paddling insights […]

It seemed natural enough to link to a story headlined “Happy Canoe Year” for our first Canoeing News post of 2009. The story, HERE, in Illinois’ Lake Forester reports on the 23rd annual New Year’s Day canoe trip down the North Branch of the Chicago River. The event, which began as a modest outing Ralph […]