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The owner of a UK paddleboard company, which could just as easily have been a canoe company, was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter and sentenced to 10.5 years in Wales for failing to warn four now-dead customers of the hazards of a low head dam (weir) just downstream from the put-in...

This 1981 Canoe Magazine essay by Mike Galt is a poetic paean to solo canoeing, replete with many classic Galt-isms: "Solo. Alone. But never lonely." "The solo canoe: a light, slender form in utter symphony with wind and wave." "An activity where men and women are equal. On the solo path...

"If you were to drop a pin in the center of Curry County, Oregon, along the border of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, you would be able to reach five waterways designated as U.S. Wild and Scenic Rivers within 40 miles of each other—the Rogue, Illinois, Chetco, Smith, and Elk rivers...

"Paddlers planning to venture into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness this summer need to make alternative plans if they had hoped to pick up their permits at the Kawishiwi ranger station in Ely and the Gunflint station in Grand Marais. "The Forest Service notified permit holders via...

David Lee has scores of excellent videos on YouTube, mostly about wilderness canoe trips but also backpacking, snowshoeing and winter camping. Among his videos is a two-season series of videos called "The Portage Project", which features a team of women tripping, portaging and dragging open...

There is a spring 2025 Swift Demo Day at Collinsville Canoe & Kayak in Canton, Connecticut, on Saturday May 10 from 10-4. Website says: "$20 demo bracelet required to 'Try Before You Buy'. Refundable with the purchase or special order of a Swift boat." But the email I received says $30...

The Petawawa is a river I always wanted to paddle since I first read about it from Bill Mason long ago, but never had the opportunity. This is a good video experience of the rapids from the POV of the stern paddler, which was my usual tandem position. Rivers are the most fun to paddle. Moving...

It's interesting that the museum narrator states that the emergence of television in western Australia in the 1960s contributed to the diversion of kids away from making "tinnies." In this internet and social media age of perpetual staring at pixilated screens, no wonder kids are no longer...

"Enjoy our list of 101 of the best paddling, canoeing, kayaking, river, lake, ocean and adventure quotes to make you laugh, ponder and inspire you to get outdoors and seek your next great paddling journey!" https://paddlingmag.com/stories/culture/kayaking-quotes/ Some of these quotes are...

I get the impression that a lot of paddlers are not familiar with using the palm roll for forward strokes and turns such as the Christie. In the following video, Ray Goodwin does a good job of illustrating how the palm roll is used in conjunction with the silent, totally in-water Indian stroke...

"One of the hallmarks of FreeStyle is efficiency and the conservation of your energy. The first step, in most cases, is to efficiently get the boat moving, forward or reverse. . . . The energy that you expended, putting the canoe into motion is now transferred to the canoe as its momentum...

"There have always been ignorant, unethical and apathetic campers wandering the woods. But if you’re feeling, like my group did, as though there are a lot more of them lately, you’re right." "Now I’m hearing some paddlers talk about the need for a mandatory backcountry etiquette course taken...

“I crossed the ocean to see the power that makes the world go round,” the 44-year-old athlete wrote on Facebook on Sunday, having reached Antigua on Saturday evening (Hungarian time) after 5,123 kilometers, and remarked that this was his second ocean crossing in the world, after his 77-day trip...

"It's official: Finland just claimed the title of Earth's happiest country for the eighth year running." "Some 188,000 lakes stretch across the land like mirrors catching the sun." "A road trip through Finnish Lakeland is the ideal way to experience it. Covering over 21,000 square miles, the...

It's been boated for 220 years, but I don't think I could paddle it. My acrophobia kicks in just watching.

Do you race it? We have some members who do race or have done so in the past.

It's 25 million years old. The Great Lakes, in contrast, are at most 20,000 years old. It's also the deepest lake in the world at over a mile. And the seventh largest lake in the world. You probably haven't paddled it yet. It's in Siberia...

On February 28, 2025, Pelican International Inc. filed a Notice of Intention to Make Proposal (NOI) under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) in Canada, citing challenges in the post-COVID economy including U.S. tariffs, significant shifts in market demand, supply chain disruptions, and...

Swift now has the molds restored for all three of the Yost/Wilson Fire canoes from the early 1990s: Flashfire, Wildfire and Starfire. Each was formerly made by Bell, then Placid, then Colden. Swift earlier announced the availability of the Flashfire and Wildfire, and in the video below Bill...

"The Wisconsin Canoe Symposium (WCS) offers excellent instruction in a quiet water venue for people wishing to improve their skills in paddling and precise control of their canoes. The quiet water classes are offered for all skill levels. Student/instructor ratio is limited to 5 to 1. The...