I Love Paddling

Friday’s episode of “How It’s Made,” a program on the Science Channel, will feature a segment on Kevlar canoe-making.  The half-hour program airs Friday, February 20 at 8:oo p.m. CST. Producers of the episode recently visited the Wenonah Canoe factory in Winona, Minnesota, according to THIS Winona Daily News story.  Dustin Kass reports that a four-person crew […]

A newly published edition of The Dangerous River, R. M. Patterson’s classic advanture book about his canoe travels on the Northwest Territory’s Nahanni River in the late-1920s includes an episode from the original edition of the 1954 book that had been removed in recent printings. Patterson, whose son Alan spoke at last weekend’s Wilderness Canoe Symposium in Toronto, made […]

David Pelly, author of the 2008 book The Old Way North, will headline this weekend’s Wilderness Canoe Symposium in Toronto.  The 24th-annual gathering of wilderness and arctic paddlers is sponsored by Canada’s Wilderness Canoe Association. Pelly’s presentation, entitled “The Old Way North – stories of the northern landscape surrounding Oberholtzer and Magee’s 1912 route to […]

We enjoyed the video above and its accompanying Washington Post news story, HERE, and slide show, HERE, of members of a Washington, D.C. webelos den who visited the Patuxent Small Craft Center in Solomons, Maryland to learn the finer points of canoe-building The pack, which hails from the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, helped craftsmen associated with the Calvert […]

The Minnesota Canoe Association’s Far North Symposium will stress budget-friendly northern paddling trips when expedition paddlers from the Upper Midwest gather on Saturday, March 28 in St. Paul. Strained pocketbooks and rising aviation prices to remote areas, organizers stress, need not keep hardy paddles home this summer. Presenters at the gathering, organized by arctic paddling […]

“There’s so many drunks out. People don’t think it’s safe to be on the rivers Friday, Saturday and Sunday.” So said Missouri Senate Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Chair Matt Bartle, according to THIS Springfield News-Leader story.  His committee recently heard testimony in support of a bill which would ban beer kegs, styrofoam coolers, Jell-O […]

We know only a fraction of our readers reside in Michigan, but we thought Howard Meyerson’s recent column in the Grand Rapids Press had appeal beyond the boundaries of the Wolverine State. Meyerson reports, HERE, that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is looking into the idea of requiring Michigan residents to register their canoes […]

This isn’t the first time Polynesian voyaging canoes have caught our fancy — we’ve talked about them HERE and HERE before.  Still, THIS comprehensive Reuters story about the renaissance in traditional Polynesian canoe-seafaring warranted another post on the subject, we thought.  Prompting the Michael Perry story is news that a Polynesian voyaging canoe will set sail […]