Canoecopia 2025

Just a reminder if you're planning on attending Canoecopia 2025, Match 7-9, hotel rooms are going fast. Great event with many manufacturers. I'm probably 15 years without missing one, and attended some before that.

List of exhibitors is already pretty long for being a few months out yet.

Luckily I’m local so I plan my attendance based on the presentations schedule.

I keep asking the Nova Craft people to bring some merch to sell (hats, shirts, gel coat repair, etc) but they never do. Only other way to acquire is buy online and pay the international shipping rate.

Take a nice little road trip see some new country. Go to the Nova Craft Factory, buy yourself a hat, pick up a free sticker or two and take a tour of the production facility.
I personally don’t wear any company’s logo stuff, if they want me as a walking advertisement they need to compensate ($) me.
I would like to take a tour of their canoe factory. I have plotted a drive around Lake Superior in the autumn to see the color, included with a couple of side excursions. Car camping shouldn’t cost much more than gas money. I’d be on vacation just spending my tourist dollars in Ontario for a few days. Worse case scenario would involve buying a roof rack for my rental car to haul a new canoe back to my friend Jeff’s place. He’s got room to store another canoe on his acreage.

If you drive along the north shore of Lake Superior, let me know, we can meet up, or better yet, you could stop by!

The presenter schedule is up on Rutabaga’s website now.
This is Cliff Jacobson’s final presentations as it sounds like he’s going to retire.

Memaquay……
How did I miss seeing this invitation?? You will be the first stop I will make after leaving the border crossing. Second stop, if I see a Finnish Restaurant while passing through Thunder Bay on the way.
You and a handful of other posters are the ones that have made this forum my favorite place to visit most every morning, while I replenish my caffeine reserves.