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Pretty long paddle for a skinny boat with a floor mounted seat. Same paddle might work with a different boat. Bent shaft paddles are...

I don't think I've ever paddled an Advantage but I have paddled plenty of similar hulls and it's usually my preferred hull style. I...

I suspect Polynesian migration to South America preceded any land bridge crossings and involved some sophisticated seamanship.

We think we're more clever than our ancestors, but really, we're not. Maybe not as brave either.

In the following video, you can see the iceberg calving and causing a mini-tsusami in the harbor: I once enjoyably paddled among and...

I’ve been on some big windy lakes that made me wish I had flotation. Some say packs of gear will suffice if strapped in, but Im...

My first time in a canoe was a day trip in what is now the BWCA in 1965, I have done an overnight trip every year since starting in...

I have no memory of it but I have a picture of my parents and siblings unloading our canoe, it's marked July 1954, I'm not in the...

My own son I took canoeing from when he was an infant. He refused the canoe trips and when he finally became an adult he told me he...

I'll disagree with that. Laws do not make one a better human and I'd bet that the vast majority of people do not even need laws. Even...

But I’d contend that the nefarious elements are 1. better armed, 2. more organized or likely to organize, and 3. more inclined to try to...

I'm not prepared to live off the land in some remote place even if I could get there and if there was an apocalyptic event I probably...

Actually... I currently have at my disposal a '51 Chevy Pickup and a '79 CJ5. The CJ was built with electronic ignition but I can...

I'm sure all those Canadians will be welcoming us with open arms. :) Alan