Archive | November, 2009

Canoeing Hunks Calendar Available

25 Nov

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 […]

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Winnipeg-to-New Orleans Paddlers Forced to Change Plans

18 Nov

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 […]

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New Factory in Old Town

12 Nov

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 […]

Paddler Discovers Mastodon Tusks

5 Nov

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 […]