I Love Paddling

If they can swim it, why not try to paddle it? Three canoeists from England made what is believed to be the first-ever crossing of the English Channel in open canoes. Simon King, 44, Steve Seinet-Martin, 52, and Dave Truzzi-Franconi, 59, recently completed the 20-plus mile crossing from Folkestone in England to Wissant in France […]

Fall, we think, is a collegiate time of year. Youthful energy crackles with the start of the new school year. Stately college buildings are beautified in the autumn colors. Who doesn’t have fond memories of October afternoons on a college campus? In that spirit — and as avid paddlers, of course — we were pleased […]

Do you appreciate healthy oceans? Would you paddle a canoe 2,500 miles to protect them? Margo Pellegrino does … and has. The 41-year-old Medford Lakes, New Jersey mother paddled her outrigger canoe the 2,000 miles from Florida to Maine in 2007 raise ocean health awareness. This year, she paddled from Long Beach Island, New Jersey […]

You can now add pumpkin to the list of materials suitable for making a canoe. J. R. Hildebrandt of Nekoosa, Wisconsin carved a small “canoe” out of a giant pumpkin recently. Last week he set off down the Wisconsin River on a 150 mile paddle to raise money for charity. There’s seeing-is-believing video of Hildebrandt’s […]

Like to paddle? Like the web? Want to make a career of the two? (You’re visiting a canoeing web site right now, after all.) Well, the American Canoe Association is looking for a new webmaster and information technology manager. The ACA says it’s looking for a “creative, entrepreneurial, pro-active individual with attention to detail, [and […]

A recent story in Minnesota’s Rochester Post-Bulletin — THIS one, actually — highlighted a favorite local paddling destination of ours — the Upper Mississippi River. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area and some of the wilder rivers in the area get a lot of attention locally and nationally, but there’s much to like about paddling on […]

Oregon-based artist Daniel Dancer, whose Art for the Sky program creates large works of art to be viewed from above, created a giant canoe with the help of 150 students and faculty in the Bangor, Maine area school recently. The art work called “Sky Canoe” depicted a Penobscot Nation Indian figure paddling a 104-foot-long canoe, […]

Minnesota’s St. Cloud Times wrote THIS comprehensive story about a local youth paddling group known as Les Voyageurs.  The non-profit organization has been sending young paddlers down northern rivers for 30 years, but this year, for the first time, Les Voyageurs went all the way to the Arctic Ocean. A six-member crew paddled down Canada’s Coppermine River which flows through the Northwest Territories and […]