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Canoeists can now purchase high quality canoe-tripping gear made exclusively for renowned Boundary Waters outfitter Piragis Northwoods Company on ShopCanoeing.com, our web site’s on-line shopping resource. With a click, shoppers can purchase the Piragis Boundary Waters pant, shown HERE, or Piragis Chota Quetico Trekker boots, shown HERE. The Boundary Waters Pant is the only pant […]

Hailey Thompson, a 15-year-old from Stevens Point, Wisconsin, out-paddled her adult competition at the American Canoe Association Open Canoe Slalom Nationals & North American Championships in Wausau, Wisconsin over the weekend.  According to the Wausau Daily Herald, HERE, she earned six first-place awards during the competition.  The newspaper also has a photo-gallery from the event […]

Canoeists Ardie Olson of Cumming, Georgia and Rod Price of Orlando, Florida won the canoe division and finished in 5th place overall at the inaugural Yukon 1000 race. The event is said to be the longest paddling contest on earth. Three teams of kayakers and a voyageur canoe paddled by six people finished ahead of […]

New Yorkers could be forgiven for rubbernecking recently when an artist portaged a canoe through Manhattan. As reported in THIS New York Times story, Robert Starling and a companion paddled a 16-foot strip canoe into New York’s West 79th Street Boat Basin and then portaged it to the American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West.  As if they […]

For the second straight year and for the third time since 2004, Andrew Triebold of Spring Arbor, Michigan and Steve Lajoie of Mirabel, Quebec were winners at the Weyerhaeuser AuSable River Canoe Marathon. The duo won a wire-to-wire victory — and $5,000 — paddling the 120-mile course in 14 hours, 17 minutes, and 42 seconds. […]

We were inspired by THIS Detroit News story about 84-year-old canoe racer Al Widing. Tomorrow, Widing will compete in Michigan’s grueling, 120-mile Weyerhaeuser AuSable River Canoe Marathon. The retired builder has competed in 37 AuSable Marathons, paddling his first one in 1953. Reporter Tim Twentyman learned that Widing, who was a gunner on the USS […]

Inspired by Michigan paddling legend Verlen Kruger, Stephen Brede is in the midst of a canoe trip he hopes will take him all the way around Lake Huron. The 58-year-old Petoskey, Micigan resident, who began his trip on June 2 at the foot of the Mackinac Bridge in Mackinaw City, Michigan recently reached Port Austin […]

The first running of the longest canoe race ever contested got underway on Monday. Nineteen teams of canoeists and kayakers — including one six-paddler voyageur canoe team — are working their way down 1,000 miles of Yukon River. From its start in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, the first annual Yukon 1000 Canoe and Kayak Race will […]