Caledonia

Today I picked up a 115 year old wood and canvas Kennebec that measures 15' long (I have yet to measure the beam or weight). I saw the...

Me and the best boy got out this morning for a nice paddle. Lots of birds, including a bald Eagle, which are rare here in SW Ohio.

A little over a couple years ago, I had some serious medical issues that came on rather suddenly and left me weak and unbalanced. But...

I paddled a beat up aluminum canoe once a year at church camp 3 years in a row when I was a kid and didn’t touch one again until I...

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...

A well equipped courting canoe in the 1920s would include a parasol, a flag, a Victrola, many pillows, a Carbide light, a back rest, a...

I recently acquired a Peterborough Minetta. Some scraps of cloth and contact cement. A bit of paint and some screws and she is...

Today was the first blooming of a patch of Canada Lilies, Lilium canadense. I have watched this patch for about 12 years, I found them...

Friday was a cold, rainy day and I think only a couple of paddlers actually got on the lake for a short time. The vegetarian Pot-Luck...

Nice saves. On my normal walk they created a carp barrier consisting of large rocks to keep carp from traveling from the lake to the...

One of the students has been doing quite well with this build. Should be closing it in tomorrow. No whiskey strip though, lol. Really...

lots of wood in beautifully shaped forms Anyone who has ever dealt with paddle will realize, as I did, that it is not the boat that...

Missouri River Breaks trip last week.

I have been to La Verendrye quite a few times, some early in spring during the first week the reserve was open, other times the last...

If you want to learn the ultimate in boat control and efficiency, this is the place to be.