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This is the first photo QUIZ in this 108 page thread. Identify the two people in the photo below (taken today) both of whom are members here, identify the two boats that can be seen, and guess what's going on in the photo.

Looks like Germany wins on that list.

Hope you have a wonderful time, recped, and I'm sure many of us will look forward to tracking your progress.

That is an interesting slice of data, but I'm skeptical that wood canoes are representative worldwide of what I'll call the recreational canoe market. The study @Erica linked has data on recent year sales in different countries, but I believe those data are blocked out unless you buy the study...

Sam, you've been a member for a while, but let me just say welcome for your first post! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic...

Erica, can you post a link to the article. That is a good point and could result in different answers. I'm not sure how many natives of the USA and Canada use canoes for their daily livelihood as in Asian and South American countries. Although, I seem to recall @Woodpuppy in Tallahassee...

Jim, if the prices were equal, you would use Elmer's Max instead of Gorilla Wood for your strips?

I don't know the answer. Just asking for opinions if not facts. I can't remember everyone, but we have members here at least from Germany, Switzerland, Norway, England, Italy, Netherlands, Australia, and even China. Perhaps they have a perspective.

"The rest of the story." — Paul Harvey Andy Fox and his wife Mary are currently the second generation owners of Fox Worx Paddle Sports. https://www.foxworxpaddle.com/ourstory

Odyssey, I think we can all agree that low head dams (weirs), particularly very vertical ones, are an important safety issue of life-threatening potential. Therefore, we should be very careful about what we say about them on the world's highest rated canoe forum. I have done research, but have...

My pictured Camp paddle just happens to be decorating my bedroom, which is probably why I haven't used it in years. It's 48" long and weighs 16 ounces. I hope to go paddling locally tomorrow and I'm definitely going to use it.

No need to be sorry. I was just engaging in some private 8th grade humor. Besides, French words are not the native language of either of us. Actually, I know almost nothing about Grey Owl's history or messaging other than that he was a nature lover and conservationist. I'll defer to @Odyssey's...

Ah . . . . so, anyway, you are a chic oiler. ( would be off topic.) By the way, do we all know that the original Grey Owl was a phony, a fake Indian, a "pretendian."

So Verlen Kruger, who paddled more miles than anyone in recorded history, was not a canoeist. Okay. Wit aside, that's an ambiguous term. What one word would you use to describe Verlen Kruger's watercraft, variously manufactured by Sawyer (Loon), Mad River (Monarch) and then Kruger himself (Sea...

Kahel, is this paddle build project documented in another thread? I don't recall. If so, you should put the pictures there also. Beautiful work!

I find that very difficult to believe and would request that you support that claim with authority and evidence. The BBC article linked in the OP repeatedly calls the ramp a "fish pass" and the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) report specifically found that: "The group did not heed a...

Interesting take. One might add that this danger increases when that leader has a profit motive to put total novices on dangerous waterways. People can get injured or die in lots of freak ways on canoe trips, long or short. However, I find it totally incredible, and indeed the height of...

Exactly. The founder of the British Royal Canoe Club in 1866 and the American Canoe Association in 1880 was a (ta da!) Scottish lawyer named John MacGregor, who famously paddled his Rob Roy canoe all over Europe in the mid-19th century. It looked like this: As for modern and world-famous...

We've discussed this many times, and what are now called pack canoes have been made in the USA and Canada for more than 150 years by Henry Rushton and others, many with decks. Because the hulls and seating positions of canoes and kayaks can be minimally different to identical, I've also said...

I own two paddles with the same logo. Here's one: They are Camp Paddles, made by Al Camp of Otsego, NY. Al made bent shaft paddles from the 1960s until he retired and sold his paddle business to the Fox family in 1996, who continued the business renamed as Fox Worx. The second generation of...