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"In September 1939, a man in a canoe paddled up to the shores of Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, Australia. If he looked a little worse for wear, you could forgive him — his voyage had begun seven years and four months ago on the other side of the planet, in Germany. "Oskar Speck holds...

A fisherman caught, unhooked and quickly released a great white shark on a beach on Nantucket. One of our members plies these island waters in various canoes, kayaks and an outrigger. https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/fisherman-speaks-after-catching-great-white-shark-133777519

"The U.S. Coast Guard and Transport Canada are wagering they can change bad safety habits and dangerous figures with the recent approval of a new class of PFD called Level 50." "Level 50 jackets are performance-rated personal flotation devices that provide at least 50 newtons of buoyancy, which...

This was on a weekend canoe trip in New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the summer of 2025. I used a new and compact kitchen kit I bought during Covid. Prior to that for 15 years, I used a somewhat similar JetBoil kit. I don't need much to cook freeze-dried meals and make tea. Let's start: A...

"Dramatic video from the Minnesota Air Rescue Team shows a nighttime helicopter mission that extracted a pair of paddlers from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). Rescuers navigated darkness, rain and dense tree cover to reach the pair, who had lost their boat and lacked the gear needed to...

1. Missouri River speed attempt 2. 81-year-old Will Steger on 800 mile solo expedition 3. 90-year-old Dale Sanders attacks second half of AT 4. Circumnavigation of Iceland 5. Ireland circumnavigation speed attempt 6. North America circumnavigation 7. Canada by Canoe → tracking site...

"So, 10 years after its release, we loaded Esquif’s second best-selling tandem canoe into a boxcar for a five-day end-of-season whitewater trip down the Spanish River in northern Ontario." https://paddlingmag.com/boats/canoes/esquif-prospecteur-16/ There is also an introductory section on the...

I was cleaning and re-packing my tent today, and began wondering whether I should do so with the doors zipped open or closed. I got inconsistent advice from articles, humans and AI. Some emphasized closing zippers to protect the teeth, some said opening the zippers would make it easier to...

The coupon code for the discount is RRMD26. RailRiders makes my favorite canoe and outdoor pants, the Bushwacker Weatherpants.

Our power bank (AKA battery pack) threads are five to six years old. Technology changes fast. The topic is currently available power banks to charge electronic devices such as phones, laptops/tablets, satellite communicators, and other electronic devices you take on canoe or camping trips. NOT...

Samuel Dunning, the writer and director of "Canoe Dig It", contacted me with a request to publicize his mockumentary film on this site in order to reach our large community of canoeists. I'm happy to do so. IMDB, which currently reports an astounding 9.4 rating for the film, describes its...

I'm interested in suggestions for some sort of thin and fast-drying paddling gloves for skin protection for warm weather paddling—NOT waterproof or insulated gloves for cold weather/water paddling. I've been paddling a lot in the New Jersey Pinelands, which has unusual challenges. The rivers...

"Scientists were looking for the presence of Naegleria fowleri, a type of amoeba that is the main cause of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). The condition has a fatality rate of 98%. Essentially, when a person goes swimming, the amoeba can enter the brain through the nose. It then...

In prep for my week in the Jersey Pine Barrens, one short paddle last week was not enough for me to familiarize myself with the Illusion. But windy and other bad weather has kept me off the water. So, to beat the wind, I paddled early this morning from my local put-in on the Housatonic River —...

I find it useful to have some sort of rectangular "door mat" or "rug" outside one or both of my tent entrances to help prevent trekking in dirt, mud, sand, etc., especially when base camping. It's also a place for me to kneel when I get out of a tent without having to kneel on wet or dewy...

I've bought a new Savage River Illusion canoe, which cost more money than I ever imagined I would spend. To lighten the weight, which was one of my primary objectives in getting the canoe, it's made of Textreme carbon and Kevlar with an outer layer that is a so-called skin coat—i.e., no gelcoat...

This site is really thorough and well-organized: https://www.newenglandwaterfalls.com/ The following page from the website has pictures of the top 40 waterfalls of New England. I've seen some of them and canoed upstream many times to the base of 40-foot Grand Falls on the Dead River, Maine...