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When I paddled my 10.5' Hornbeck on a `185 mile trek across the Adirondacks, with a fulll week of gear and food onboard, I found that...

Open water waves are very different than standing waves in river. In open water, like an ocean or lake, I think of waves as a transfer...

When paddling in a tail wind, where there is a lot of fetch, you not only have to worry about the wind pushing your stern around but I...

I hate pouch food. Last week I was camping in the rain at a great CA fishery, Eagle Lake. After a few days I bought a can of Dinty...

Misperceptions abound. 🙄

Hence an alternative name for a tandem canoe is a "divorce boat".

I am almost always the only one in a canoe when I do group trips. I'm also in the only one on the local lake when I go bass fishing...

What I advise concerned scouts when paddling in broad open water is to buckle their backpack hip belt around a thwart if that makes them...

I have one, almost never used, that has 4 wings that unfold when I unscrew the bottom. Very compact, aluminum construction, light and...

a roto-moulded 6' kayak

I have a cottage on a small private non-motors lake with about 70 members with lake shore property (all 200 inland members have lake...

I think to be honest it's all about price, availability, convenience, and skillset. A newbie who's never been on the water can go to...

This question often comes up during BSA introduction to canoe camping, in particular what a BSA trained high adventure leader does and...

I rarely strap my gear in except in lake crossings. virtually everything is in a dry bag and if you z-fold the top before rolling the...

But then again I am as likely to be tripping with a Hennessey hammock, unless I need to be i a tent in the shoulder seasons, or I expect...