I Love Paddling

In our favorite event involving college engineering students, concrete construction, and caneoing, teams from across North America are gathering in Tuscaloosa, Alabama this week for the finals of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2009 National Concrete Canoe Competition. Twenty-two college teams from the U.S. and Canada which qualified via regional competition will vie for […]

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Canadian canoests Jonathan Pratt and Stephanie Park are spending the better part of their summer paddling from Tobermory, Ontario, on the northern tip of Lake Huron’s Bruce Penninsula, to Kingston, Ontario at the far eastern end of Lake Ontario. But that’s not the half of it. It’s more like a third of it. You see, […]

The Sammamish Review in Washington just published some video (above) and a fascinating story, HERE, about master canoe-carver John Mullen. Mullen, a member of the Snoqualmie Tribe, has revived his people’s nearly-lost canoe-carving tradition.  With advice from tribal elders and help from apprentices, he has completed four dug-out river and ocean-going canoes, as well as other, smaller efforts.  Mullen’s […]

A 180-year-old birchbark canoe dubbed “The Grandfather Canoe” which was forgotten for years at an Irish university, will be returned to Canada, the National University of Ireland, Galway announced Tuesday. The Daily Gleaner, a New Brunswick newspaper reports the story HERE, with a photo of the boat. As we’ve noted earlier — HERE and HERE— […]

Call it canoeing through horse country. When we think of North Dakota’s badlands, we don’t automatically think of canoes.  We think of Teddy Roosevelt, on a horse, hunting bison, with a big stick.  (Or something like that.) But a river runs through the heart of the western North Dakota badlands and the national park named […]

Teams of paddlers on London, Ontario’s Fanshawe Lake will propel their boats for twelve continuous hours in a charity relay to celebrate cancer survivorship called the Paddle for Life. The June 7th event, co-sponsored by Nova Craft Canoes, Veo Natural Spring Water, and the artist Philip Aziz, will donate its proceeds to Wellspring, a cancer support […]

The paddling duo of Andy Triebold and Steve Lajoie is racing like it’s still 2008. The team that swept last year’s North American “Triple Crown” canoe races, kicked of the 2009 season with a repeat victory last weekend at New York’s General Clinton Canoe Regatta. The General Clinton is the first jewel of the canoe racing trifecta that […]