I Love Paddling

The most storied canoe race in Great Britain — the Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race — is less than a month away, and already the build-up is beginning in the local media. The Telegraph has THIS story about a pair of citizen racers looking to complete the 125-mile event scheduled to begin on April […]

Perhaps it’s the happy memories of our college years mingled with our warm feelings about canoes, but we’re taken with the idea of collegiate teams racing one-another down rivers in canoes.  The American Canoe Association is hosting two collegiate competitions in the coming weeks and, next fall, will once again host the Collegiate Canoe and Kayak […]

Michigan paddler, beer drinker, and Detroit Tigers fan Doc Fletcher is back with a second book: Michigan Rivers Less Paddled: The Rivers, the Towns, the Taverns. The guidebook is a companion to last year’s Weekend Canoeing in Michigan, a book we reviewed HERE. Fletcher, you may remember, is the intrepid author who not only describes […]

Quetico Provincial Park, the renowned wilderness paddling venue in western Ontario, turns 100 years old this year. The million-plus acre park,  just across the international border from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, was first protected on April 1, 1909 as the “Quetico Forest and Game Reserve.”  In honor of the anniversary — and the fantastic paddling […]

The day after a 6-inch snowstorm — that’s what we got outside the Canoeing.com office here in Minneapolis — may not seem like the time to plan a canoe trip, but it is. Reservations are now available for permits to paddle in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness between May 1 and September 30, 2009.  The […]

Would you want to paddle on something called the Reeking River? Luckily, back in 1969, according to THIS Houston Chronicle story, 120 paddlers chose to do exactly that at the first annual Reeking River Regatta, a canoe race down Houston’s Buffalo Bayou.  Organizer Wayne Walls started the event in an effort to clean up the river and halt an […]

A veritable who’s who of Far North canoeists have expressed official opposition to a proposed uranium mine on Nunavut’s Back River on the Canadian tundra. Che-Mun, a Canadian wilderness canoeing journal, reprinted comments made to the Nunavut Impact Review Board by tundra river guide Alex Hall, Canadian Canoe Museum curator James Raffan, filmaker Robert Perkins, and 1962 Back River descender […]

It’s not your father’s canoe.  But then, that’s the point. Nova Craft Canoes, in conjunction with students of London, Ontario’s Fanshawe College unveiled three new hull designs aimed at attracting younger paddlers.  Canoeing.com’s own Alissa Johnson has the full story, HERE, in our Canoe Guide section. Seventy-four students submitted designs, three of which were declared winners and then manufactured […]