I Love Paddling

Like to paddle? Like the web? Want to make a career of the two? (You’re visiting a canoeing web site right now, after all.) Well, the American Canoe Association is looking for a new webmaster and information technology manager. The ACA says it’s looking for a “creative, entrepreneurial, pro-active individual with attention to detail, [and […]

A recent story in Minnesota’s Rochester Post-Bulletin — THIS one, actually — highlighted a favorite local paddling destination of ours — the Upper Mississippi River. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area and some of the wilder rivers in the area get a lot of attention locally and nationally, but there’s much to like about paddling on […]

Oregon-based artist Daniel Dancer, whose Art for the Sky program creates large works of art to be viewed from above, created a giant canoe with the help of 150 students and faculty in the Bangor, Maine area school recently. The art work called “Sky Canoe” depicted a Penobscot Nation Indian figure paddling a 104-foot-long canoe, […]

Minnesota’s St. Cloud Times wrote THIS comprehensive story about a local youth paddling group known as Les Voyageurs.  The non-profit organization has been sending young paddlers down northern rivers for 30 years, but this year, for the first time, Les Voyageurs went all the way to the Arctic Ocean. A six-member crew paddled down Canada’s Coppermine River which flows through the Northwest Territories and […]

Maine’s Bangor Daily News, HERE, remembers the now-defunct Conduskeag Canoe and Country Club in an interesting story about turn-of-the-20th-Century recreation. According to the Wayne Reilly piece, the Conduskeag Canoe and Country Club more closely resembled a contemporary country club or a leather-chairs-and-brandy-snifters men’s club than what we’d recognize as a modern canoe club. Instead of […]

We’re fond of the notion of paddling in the wake of history.  Hop in a canoe, push out into the water, allow your imagination to drift, and it doesn’t take much to envision the people who traveled across the water before you — natives, explorers, traders, or settlers. The New York Times’ Christopher Shaw recently retraced Samuel de Champlain’s […]

Team Bradley, winners of the Na Wahine O Ke Kai Canoe Race for the fourth straight year, established a new record with their victory last weekend in the 30th annual, all-women’s, open-ocean outrigger canoe race between the Hawaiian islands of Molokai and Oahu. The team crossed the 42-mile Kaiwi Channel which separates the two islands […]

Do you remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer, learning that the New York City Marathon is a few days off, slaps himself on the forehead and says, “I keep forgetting to enter that!” Well, if you mean to enter the first annual Yukon 1,000 Canoe and Kayak race — at 1,000 miles, the world’s longest […]