I Love Paddling

Unless you’re planning to drag your fishing tackle into Western Ontario’s premier wilderness park by sled, you might want to file this item away until springtime. In any case, starting on January 1, 2008, anglers in Quetico Provincial Park will no longer be allowed to use organic baits or barbed hooks in the park. Organic baits […]

The American Canoe Association recently named former America Online executive Martin Bartles its new executive director.  Bartles, according to THIS story, recently served as the the head of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.  The ACA, founded in 1880, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of canoe and kayak education, recreation, and stewardship.  The organization is in the […]

The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently ran THIS interesting story about a late season goose hunt, on an icy river, using a canoe and a sled. It’s a canoe-hunt for the hardy, as this quote from Dennis Anderson’s story attests: “The river ice was precarious, not quite solid, not quite weak, and en route back from […]

We’ve been heartened by the recent use of canoes in artistic, historical, and cultural displays.  Our favorite variety of watercraft has been inspiring and transporting people for a long, long time, after all. We recently noticed THIS story and photo about a canoe built in the aboriginal Tasmanian style now on display at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart, […]

Continuing our run of “police blotter” items … We noticed THIS story about the owner of a canoe rental business in Illinois who faces felony obstruction of justice charges surrounding the accidental drowning of one of his customers.  After one of five underage customers, alleged to have been drinking, drowned near his business last July, canoe […]

Four paddlers in Maryland were officially warned by the state’s natural resources police over illegally cutting fallen trees along the Gunpowder Falls River. The four, some of them members of the Greater Baltimore Canoe Club, used chainsaws to clear the waterway in an apparent effort to make the river safer and more run-able for paddlers. […]

See latest update below …  In a story still unfolding in England, a man thought to have perished in a canoeing accident more than five years ago has suddenly reappeared. John Darwin had apparently set out from his home near Hartlepool, England in March 2002 to paddle on the North Sea. He was never located […]

We read in our local paper, HERE, that there’s a canoe in the Blue Room of the White House. It’s painted on an ornament hanging from on the White House Christmas tree. This year, the first family’s tree is decorated with 347 hand-created ornaments designed to represent America’s national parks, memorials, seashores, historic sites, and […]