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The steersman of the Hokule’a, the double-hulled canoe that sailed from Hawaii to Tahiti in 1976, is being remembered for his strength and kindness. Sam Kalalau Jr., a native Hawaiian fisherman who died in October at age 85, helped prove the idea that Polynesians could navigate the Pacific using traditional techniques when he steered Hokule’a. […]

“It’s been waiting to become a canoe a long time now.” So said Haida canoe carver Saaduuts of a log he intends to shape into a dugout canoe, according to THIS Seattle Post-Intelligencer story by Mike Lewis. Saaduuts, born Robert Peele but who has gone by his tribal name for some 20 years, seeks to […]

Shell Va’a is outrigger canoe racing’s answer to the New York Yankees. The Tahiti-based team is collecting canoeing titles the way the Yankees used to gather World Series trophies. Last week, the oil-company sponsored team won its fourth-straight Leeward Islands Hawaiki Nui Race — a prestigious three-day race between the islands of Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa, […]

We nearly missed THIS fine story in the New York Times about Nebraska’s Niobrara River. Writer Helen Olsson took to the river earlier in the fall and reports on a unique area with a charming river flowing through it. The spring-fed Niobrara flows through six separate ecosystems, including tallgrass prairie, ponderosa pine, and eastern deciduous […]

We found something compelling in THIS feature story from the James Bay region of Ontario. Author Lynn Harper-Cheechoo, writing in the Wawatay News, tells the story of a canoe trip on the Moose River with blind, 77-year-old Cree elder Susan Koostachin. “Susan watches us with an acute inner vision, amused by our enthusiasm speaking softly […]

Tom Leppard, who until recently lived a primitive life that included canoeing three miles for his groceries each week, has opted for some creature comfort these days. The 73-year-old British man whose body is covered in leopard-spot tattoos has traded his ramshackle cottage and its plastic-sheeting roof for a one-bedroom home. He’s traded his canoe […]

From our “It’s Good to Have a Canoe Nearby Department” … We noticed THIS story in New York’s North Country Gazette about a deer hunter in the Adirondack Park Preserve who accidentally shot himself in the foot. The victim, Julio C. Blanco, 65, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, walked from the scene of his accident to his […]