MrPoling

When I was a young man in the early '90s polyester and other synthetics were not dirt cheap like now. I took a second hand wool blanket...

I'm going with my principal of being conservative about safety stuff. I was taught to use a figure 8 for creating critical loops, like...

A sailing canoe is another option. Benson

You know the best thing for open water and places with big fetch? A sailboat. Seriously, I'd rather have a small sailboat than a...

The real problem is that kayaks aren't that much better in bad conditions, especially for normal people. To make the kayak safer in...

I have a blackgold Bell solo. The finish is robust and only has scratches from truly ugly incidents. I cover it when it gets home to...

I've been raking leaves. The motion is not dissimilar from paddling. Maybe I need to put a T-grip on the end of one of the rakes. Here...

Northstar Phoenix I finally did it. I ordered a new canoe. This is the first canoe that I have ever custom ordered, I usually buy used...

When I lived in West Virginia in the late '90s I paddled some of the rivers in the southern coal fields. This is basically the area...

Yeah, first question is what counts as owning? What counts as a paddle craft? I think that means to many.

Who's counting? I'll tell you when I've had enough canoes!

I had the Mad River Canoe catalogs when I was a teenager and to this day, many years later, I think of Mad Rivers as the perfect image...

Yeah, I miss the sunshine. I've been thinking it would be good to do something outside the week of the solstice. It would have to be...

I think canoes are a mature design. My impression is things have changed very little since wood canvas canoes. As much as I love...