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Canoeing.com is ready for the paddling season, even if the weather isn’t! We’ve updated our Gear Guide for the coming season with 233 new items spread across diverse categories like PFDs, Car Roof Racks, Yokes/Tumplines, Thwart/Bow Bags, Spray Skirts, Portage Canoe Wheels, Repair Kits/Parts, and Anchor Bags. There’s even a separate Whitewater Accessories section which […]

Ever wonder what a $10 million canoe looks like? Just click HERE to see … Now, while you won’t see Peter Doig’s White Canoe — yes, it’s an expensive painting we’re talking about — if you attend the Doig retrospective at the Tate Gallery in London, you will be able to enjoy more than 50 of the British-born, Canadian-bred artist’s […]

Speaking of the North West Company … We thought it worth noting that a new edition of Jean Morrison’s Superior Rendezvous-Place: Fort William in the Canadian Fur Trade was recently published. Morrison’s history of fur trade activities in the Thunder Bay, Ontario region is a fine read for history buffs, fur trade enthusiasts, and paddlers […]

We are familiar with the Northern, the grocery and general merchandise chain whose stores dot the communities of the far north. We’ve even got a story about the Northern in Baker Lake, Nunavut, where, after a rationed, 50-day canoe trip, we imagined the treats we could reward ourselves with — a cold Pepsi was one […]

We enjoyed THIS story and THESE photos of Tim Eakins Polynesian-style outrigger canoe that’s on display at the Windsor Art Center in Connecticut. The Hartford Courant story reports that this summer Eakins plans to float his boat out the Connecticut River and then down the East Coast on a trip that could ultimately end 4,000 […]

According to Newt Gingrich’s daughter Jackie Gingrich Cushman, a columnist on the conservative web-site TownHall.com, the challenges of a marriage remind her of the canoe trips she took as a youth. You can read her column on the subject HERE.

We didn’t forget about Canoecopia, the huge Madison, Wisconsin canoeing expo, when we wrote Tuesday, HERE, about the paddling symposiums in Toronto, St. Paul, and Vermont.  We just figured the “world’s largest paddlesport exposition” deserved its own story on Canoeing News. Canoecopia 2008 runs from March 7th through 9th inside the Exhibition Hall at the Alliant Energy Center.  The expo includes […]

The weather says winter — at least around these parts — but Canoeing.com is thinking spring! We’ve just updated the Paddles section of our Gear Guide.  We’ve added models by Whiskeyjack, Shaw & Tenney, Werner, and Caviness to our already comprehensive overview of the blades available to power your boat this canoeing season.