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Steve in Idaho reacted to riverstrider's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with
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My first paddling experience wasn't in a Grumman, but it might as well have been. I recall vividly stepping into the bow of a Michicraft... -
Steve in Idaho reacted to Odyssey's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
The first canoe I remember paddling looked like this. A neighbour had bought a brand spanking new Sportspal complete with fake birch...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to Stillwater's's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
First time I can recall was at a summer camp in Maine. I was maybe 12 years old, in the mid sixties. They took us on an overnight (maybe...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to boatstall's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
My GodFather had a camp in the early fifties, on a cypress lake in North Louisiana, and never said no when I asked if I could go...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to Higgster's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
My Grandfather had a summer cottage (now mine) on a small lake in Susquehanna county in northeastern PA. He purchased a 17 foot OTCA in...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to stevet's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
Very young, no interest in paddling yet but friends and I took an aluminum canoe out just far enough to flip it over and play around...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to Waterspyder's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
Living near a lake and new homes being built nearby my first boating experience was with boats (rafts) we made out of "borrowed" wood...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to scratchypants's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
I guess I'm a bit of a late bloomer given my first canoe experience was at the age of 14. As a child of the 70's, I've never known a...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to yellowcanoe's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
Funny that I am not far from Locke Mills, Glenn. We will be paddling next week as the colors start to explode. My first paddling...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to lowangle al's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
My first experience in a canoe was back in the mid sixties when I was about 7 or 8. My father stopped to visit a friend who lived on a...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to Robin's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
I've posted this picture before. 1955, Cobden,Ontario, I'm in the bow with my two brothers, Peter and Paul behind me. The canoe is a...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to Jim Dodd's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
1964 Boy Scout Camp ( Prairie Gold ). West Lake Okoboji, Iowa. 17' Grumman. There was a canal, that was near impossible to turn around...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to BWCA66's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
Mine was an aluminum rental from Ely,MN in 1965 to paddle into the BWCA with my Dad, which was before it was a designated wilderness...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to PaddlingPitt's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
This image was taken at the Boy Scouts Camp Harvey West, in California. I don’t remember the year, but I was probably around 12 years...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to Abenakiregion's post in the thread The first canoe you ever PADDLED and the circumstances with Like.
Spent my early childhood during the same time span at Bryant Pond, but not until high school did I first paddle a friend's old WC canoe.