Archive | June, 2009

Concrete Canoeists Gather for National Championships

10 Jun

In our favorite event involving college engineering students, concrete construction, and caneoing, teams from across North America are gathering in Tuscaloosa, Alabama this week for the finals of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2009 National Concrete Canoe Competition. Twenty-two college teams from the U.S. and Canada which qualified via regional competition will vie for […]

New Tonight Show Host Goes Canoeing

9 Jun

If you can’t see the video player, click HERE.

Paddling Canada’s Great Lakes’ Coast

8 Jun

Canadian canoests Jonathan Pratt and Stephanie Park are spending the better part of their summer paddling from Tobermory, Ontario, on the northern tip of Lake Huron’s Bruce Penninsula, to Kingston, Ontario at the far eastern end of Lake Ontario. But that’s not the half of it. It’s more like a third of it. You see, […]

Encounters with a Master Canoe-Carver

4 Jun

The Sammamish Review in Washington just published some video (above) and a fascinating story, HERE, about master canoe-carver John Mullen. Mullen, a member of the Snoqualmie Tribe, has revived his people’s nearly-lost canoe-carving tradition.  With advice from tribal elders and help from apprentices, he has completed four dug-out river and ocean-going canoes, as well as other, smaller efforts.  Mullen’s […]

Grandfather Canoe to Remain in Canada

3 Jun

A 180-year-old birchbark canoe dubbed “The Grandfather Canoe” which was forgotten for years at an Irish university, will be returned to Canada, the National University of Ireland, Galway announced Tuesday. The Daily Gleaner, a New Brunswick newspaper reports the story HERE, with a photo of the boat. As we’ve noted earlier — HERE and HERE— […]

Paddling North Dakota’s Little Missouri

2 Jun

Call it canoeing through horse country. When we think of North Dakota’s badlands, we don’t automatically think of canoes.  We think of Teddy Roosevelt, on a horse, hunting bison, with a big stick.  (Or something like that.) But a river runs through the heart of the western North Dakota badlands and the national park named […]