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Getting ready for canoe season. Set up my new Springbar Compact in the backyard. Going to spend the night, see how it goes. Supposed to...

Everything around here is still froze up, so decided to take a short drive north for my canoes maiden voyage. Boundary Dam Reservoir by...

Greetings from Finland! Here's couple sources for you whom like to come paddling here: Maps...

Saving time and money, building a canoe ? Well a stripper is out of the question ! A Skin on frame canoe, might be an option, but a...

I think the hull material can be a huge saving. Depending upon your location, WRC or NWC might be obtainable for a resonable price. This...

If I remember right he called out something like "help me, God" so, I guess, he did believe help was nearby. I think it was real and...

Kinda looks like this one, it's a Sun Dolphin, a cheap Chinese canoe sold by big box stores, Canadian Tire in Canada. Scrolled through...

at first my prepareness begins with packing the canoe ... . . in this way that it is trimmt well and for me to paddle comfortly...

My worst was heading out into the Quetico in a tandem with a friend. We were last getting going and the three solos headed across...

Yeah.. woe betide!

Water and weather are very beautiful and also very powerful and should not be underestimated. If you treat them with the necessary...

I had a similar experience in an Osprey. We had been cutting portages all day, and everyone in the crew was very tired, so prone to...

I've seen this video before. He is making some bad decisions for sure but I bet this experience kicked up his sea awareness a few...

No life jacket on. Doesn't know how to use a bent shaft paddle; uses it backwards. No flotation in a sinkable canoe. Canoe way out of...

Just watched this video, of a guy dumping his canoe in the middle of a Mn. lake. Eye opening ! Put yourself in this situation !