I Love Paddling

‘Tis the season for doing without in the Christian church, and for one environmentalist, this means forgoing his car for a canoe. Ben Clowney, along with his colleagues at the UK Christian development agency Tearfund, has undertaken a “carbon fast” for Lent, and from February 8 – 14 he sought to cut his carbon emissions […]

The canoe is making a splash in the art world on this side of the pond, as well as in the current Peter Doig show at London’s Tate Modern (see the Canoeing News post on Doig’s canoes HERE). Sally Thurlow, a Canadian sculptor, recently opened her exhibition “Canoe Dreamings” at the Tom Thomson Gallery in […]

Could your water bottle be a danger to you? Science Daily reports HERE that exposure to potentially harmful Bisphenol A (BPA) from polycarbonate plastic bottles is increased by the temperature of the liquid in the bottles, according to a University of Cincinnati study. The colorful, hard plastic water bottles popular with paddlers and other outdoor enthusiasts are […]

Canoeing.com is ready for the paddling season, even if the weather isn’t! We’ve updated our Gear Guide for the coming season with 233 new items spread across diverse categories like PFDs, Car Roof Racks, Yokes/Tumplines, Thwart/Bow Bags, Spray Skirts, Portage Canoe Wheels, Repair Kits/Parts, and Anchor Bags. There’s even a separate Whitewater Accessories section which […]

Ever wonder what a $10 million canoe looks like? Just click HERE to see … Now, while you won’t see Peter Doig’s White Canoe — yes, it’s an expensive painting we’re talking about — if you attend the Doig retrospective at the Tate Gallery in London, you will be able to enjoy more than 50 of the British-born, Canadian-bred artist’s […]

We are familiar with the Northern, the grocery and general merchandise chain whose stores dot the communities of the far north. We’ve even got a story about the Northern in Baker Lake, Nunavut, where, after a rationed, 50-day canoe trip, we imagined the treats we could reward ourselves with — a cold Pepsi was one […]

We enjoyed THIS story and THESE photos of Tim Eakins Polynesian-style outrigger canoe that’s on display at the Windsor Art Center in Connecticut. The Hartford Courant story reports that this summer Eakins plans to float his boat out the Connecticut River and then down the East Coast on a trip that could ultimately end 4,000 […]

According to Newt Gingrich’s daughter Jackie Gingrich Cushman, a columnist on the conservative web-site TownHall.com, the challenges of a marriage remind her of the canoe trips she took as a youth. You can read her column on the subject HERE.