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Are there any good magazines that come out 6-12 times a year with good content? Maybe with some tripping, racing, stories? Something to hold and look through.
 
The only hardcopy periodical on canoeing I know of is Boundary Waters Journal, which while well produced seems not quite your focus. Also 4/year. I'm sure others will have better suggestions
 
I dropped CANOE and Kayak magazine several years ago because it seemed to focus 95% on anything but canoeing. Virtually every article was geared toward the young kayak community with acdtive young paddlers and photographs and white water. Oh there might be a token short article on canoes once in a while, but not anything to gather my attention.
 
Canoe Magazine (which is what it was called at the time) was pretty good back in the 1970s and 1980s. Any "canoe" magazine that I have looked at for about the last 10 years has contained about 70% advertising. The other 30% were stories about breakneck adventures on whitewater rivers in other countries that I will never go to, or first descents of rivers or waterfalls that I will never run or even see.

So basically the answer is "no, not so far as I am aware". If you come across something decent post it here.
 
Canoe Magazine (which is what it was called at the time) was pretty good back in the 1970s and 1980s. Any "canoe" magazine that I have looked at for about the last 10 years has contained about 70% advertising. The other 30% were stories about breakneck adventures on whitewater rivers in other countries that I will never go to, or first descents of rivers or waterfalls that I will never run or even see.

So basically the answer is "no, not so far as I am aware". If you come across something decent post it here.

That's my experience, too. In the late 1980's and early 1990's there was an excellent magazine called CanoeSport Journal, but it went defunct.

I now get emails of Paddler Magazine, which mainly focuses on kayaking, and I occasionally post here a canoe article I find in it.
 
I used to have a subscription to Paddling Magazine and same as yknpdlr and pblanc, there was more fluff than content. Seemed like they only had a couple writers and most “articles” were just a couple paragraphs and a picture….kinda like it was written for a younger generation with attention deficit disorder. Plenty of ads too.

Barry
 
Well, BWJ definitely doesn't do kayaks. But not too much racing nor much whitewater - for the obvious reasons.
 
I was a charter subscriber starting with the first issue in April 1973 of Canoe magazine and finally let my subscription lapse around 2010. My non-renewal must have stood out because I got a phone call from staff at the editorial office asking why I dropped it. My wife took the call and explained that the magazine held little value for me any longer with its content being mostly all ads.

After a brief attempt to sell my magazine collection, I gave it away to a guy who had the biggest collection of aluminum Beaver canoes I had ever seen. As I recall he had 7 of them.
 
All of y'all have said what I thought was out there. I have looked before and have never really found anything. Was hoping that I had missed something. The Boundary Waters Journal does look the interesting. I get the two different news letters one from USCA and the other from TCKRA both are racing clubs. So I can get those reading fixes. Then between some podcast and coming here I get the other fixes. But sometimes it is nice to have a something to hold and read. Thanks for all replies!
 
Not sure any niche sport is well supported by print journalism these days. Only print magazine I get anymore is privately published and geared more towards the generalized outdoor adventure community, and I know of at least one other similar publication that I don't get.
 
Are there any good magazines that come out 6-12 times a year with good content? Maybe with some tripping, racing, stories? Something to hold and look through.
Clint,

Although you can’t hold an ipad or iphone like a tradional hard copy magazine, I would suggest that the best available canoeing magazine today is canoetripping.net. And it comes out not just 6-12 times a year, but every day!
 
Clint,

Although you can’t hold an ipad or iphone like a tradional hard copy magazine, I would suggest that the best available canoeing magazine today is canoetripping.net. And it comes out not just 6-12 times a year, but every day!
And this is where I come to just about every day. And you are correct it is the best. I have learned so much from this site and continue to. A lot of which I will probably never get to use like the tripping style that is used up north. And I will probably never get to see the Boundary Waters. But it is neat to read the stories from there. I listen to Shawn and Derek on Paddling Adventure Radio podcast. And love their stories from Canada.
 
Journalism itself is a dying art, being replaced with editorialism and worse. So much of the written word now appears to be written by an algorithm, or is a naked feeder to Amazon aka “affiliate”, or is as said above just a couple of fluffy paragraphs and a picture. Finding good print has been difficult… even good quality online sources are in decline. The best resource I found for cookware when I was shopping for induction-compatible cookware was chow hound and the forum is now gone. As sites are bought up to make money, quality craters while ads proliferate until the parent org sticks a fork in it because it’s no longer making them money. Just like Cerberus and Freedom Group destroyed Marlin and Remington, and some big named jerk shut down Bell; others are dead and dying too for the sake of milking cash for stock holders. Bah.

I’m very happy to have found this site. Glenn, let us know when it’s time for a fund drive. I want to see this site persist without the “help” of outside grifters.
 
Journalism itself is a dying art, being replaced with editorialism and worse. So much of the written word now appears to be written by an algorithm, or is a naked feeder to Amazon aka “affiliate”, or is as said above just a couple of fluffy paragraphs and a picture. Finding good print has been difficult… even good quality online sources are in decline. The best resource I found for cookware when I was shopping for induction-compatible cookware was chow hound and the forum is now gone. As sites are bought up to make money, quality craters while ads proliferate until the parent org sticks a fork in it because it’s no longer making them money. Just like Cerberus and Freedom Group destroyed Marlin and Remington, and some big named jerk shut down Bell; others are dead and dying too for the sake of milking cash for stock holders. Bah.

I’m very happy to have found this site. Glenn, let us know when it’s time for a fund drive. I want to see this site persist without the “help” of outside grifters.
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Woodpuppy, your post made me think of this shirt from Mountain Gazette. A magazine that was before my time, a free-spirited printed and very large (11”x17”) mag full of readable content. We had a few old copies in a shop I worked at, and would occasionally flip through them on lunch or a slow day. They have since been brought back from the dead at $20 a copy and full of similar articles. Articles about real people doing what we love most, paddling, mountaineering, living in a van Before sprinters, patching dirty gear to reach the next summit or camp spot.

Print is dying, and “Top Ten Best” is B.S. but there are a few small production magazines still kicking. And I hope they always do
 
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