Might be worth a first visit if you have not been there before, or if one of the vendors is there with a boat you might like to try. Otherwise it is far more focused on the young kayak set than canoeing. Paddlefest is not what it once was. Now there is a gate fee just to look around. Each vendor has to give a percentage of sales to Mountainmain, the organizer. Some who you might think would be there no longer attend.
Well, Kevin did enjoy a quiet Sunday in the rain with plunging temps wherein Swift sold three hulls, but inadvertently left his data sheet at Seven Horses. It occurred to me on my drive up into the hills that meant he no longer had possession of those notes; must have been the low pressure? Anyway, the technical canoeing instruction event is the Adirondack Canoe Symposium, held in conjunction with the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association Assembly at Paul Smith's 14-17 July this summer.
Contact info is www.freestylecanoeing.com and catboat3@gmail.com.
CEW
Well, Kevin did enjoy a quiet Sunday in the rain with plunging temps wherein Swift sold three hulls, but inadvertently left his data sheet at Seven Horses. It occurred to me on my drive up into the hills that meant he no longer had possession of those notes; must have been the low pressure? Anyway, the technical canoeing instruction event is the Adirondack Canoe Symposium, held in conjunction with the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association Assembly at Paul Smith's 14-17 July this summer.
Contact info is www.freestylecanoeing.com and catboat3@gmail.com.
CEW
"Is it so nice as all that?" asked the mole, shyly...
"Nice? It's the only thing," said the Water Rat Solemnly, as he leaned forward for his stroke. "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
"Simply messing...about in boats -- or with boats... In or out of 'em it doesn't matter. Nothing seems to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."
"Look here! If you've really nothing else on hand this morning, supposing we drop down the river together and have a long day of it.?"