Author Archives: "Canoe & Kayak"
Kokatat Sponsors 2010 River Bassin Tournament Trail
Kokatat, the 39‐year‐old independent watersports apparel and accessories company, will support its newest kayak fishing ambassador Drew Gregory and his company, Deep Creek Ventures, in executing the 2010 River Basin Tournament Trail. Gregory joined Team Kokatat this spring with a plethora of experience and contacts in the fishing world. He has logged over 600 river [...]
Nominations Sought for Whitewater Gods, Goddesses in Year 6
Whitewater Hall of Fame Also to Auction Signed Jackson Kayak (Silver Spring, MD) – The International Whitewater Hall of Fame has announced the beginning of its sixth march toward honoring the world’s most accomplished whitewater Pioneers, Explorers, Champions and Advocates as Inductees in the International Whitewater Hall of Fame. The 2010 IWHoF nomination forms, instructions, [...]
PADDLE FOR THE POLAR BEARS!
PADDLE FOR THE POLAR BEARS! Stand Up Paddleboarding Challenge Series Hits the Waters of Lake Wingra This Summer in Madison Madison, Wi.—The up-and-coming sport of stand up paddleboarding (SUP) is making a formal debut on the waters of Lake Wingra in Madison, Wisconsin with a series of six on water challenges beginning Sunday, June 6, [...]
Don Starkell Injured in Fire
The legendary canoeist suffered burns and smoke inhalation as he fought the blaze in his home near Winnipeg, Manitoba. Though later hospitalized in critical but stable condition, a neighbor and passerby had to restrain Starkell from going back into the burning house to fight the fire. Starkell, 77, is best known for his 12,000-mile canoe [...]
NOC to Open New Locale
Nantahala Outdoor Center, a privately held, employee-owned company opens its brand-new experiential retail environment in Gatlinburg, TN Easter weekend, April 2–4. A $4 million project, NOC’s Great Outpost intends to increase participation in the outdoors while providing a new attraction centered around Gatlinburg’s prime location at the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. [...]
South Georgia’s School of Hard Knocks
After a series of unlucky breaks, weather-induced delays and logistical hurdles, Canadian sea kayaker Hayley Shephard still considers her attempt to make the first solo circumnavigation of Antarctica’s South Georgia Island a success. On March 17, Shephard returned to her launch site at King Edward Point, a British research station. According to her blog, she [...]
National Freestyle Points Series Announced
Winner earns U.S. title USA Freestyle Kayaking (USAFK) is pleased to announce the creation of a National Point Series tour for 2010 in partnership with six event organizers across the US. The series will begin with five events in which participants are awarded points based on their finish position: Bryson City, NC – April 17, [...]
Vertical Challenge is On
Time to drop vert and fight cancer Photo credit: Erik Boomer
The Shepherd of Rivers
Riverside memorial to celebrate the life of a canoeing legend
Kokatat Co-Sponsors Canoecopia Paddlesports Exhibition
US’ Largest Paddle Expo Educates, Entertains, and Sells ARCATA, Calif., (March 9, 2010) – Madison will soon be abuzz with paddlesports junkies as the annual Canoecopia exhibition takes over the Alliant Energy Center on March 12-14. Kokatat, the 38-year old independent paddlewear manufacturer, is one of the presenting sponsors of Canoecopia and will have staff [...]
New WW park Raises a Fuss in Raleigh, N.C.
Just below Falls Dam, the Neuse River rapids can churn up a bubbling playground of 3-foot waves, a brief shock of commotion on an otherwise sleepy waterway. To paddlers, it’s the perfect spot for a whitewater park. With $350,000, [the city Raleigh, North Carolina] has taken the first steps toward making this stretch a more [...]
The New Big Guns
The New Big Guns 2010 Rider of the Year Awards Not since the IR Big Gun Show dissolved over four years ago has the best in whitewater boating been celebrated in annual peer-juried awards. Canadian paddler Patrick Camblin is attempting to recapture the prestige of being acknowledged as the best in the sport with the [...]
Lapping the Island – The race for one of sea kayaking’s top prizes
Canadian sea kayaker Joe O’Blenis pulls no punches when asked why he’s planning to endure over two weeks of 40- to 45-mile-long paddling days around British Columbia’s Vancouver Island this summer: It’s to reclaim a speed record he set in 2007 by lapping the island’s 750-mile perimeter in 23 days. Barely a year later, British [...]
Northern Forest Canoe Trail Auction Raises Nearly $30,000
WAITSFIELD, Vt. – The 5th annual winter online auction for the Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT) ended recently with a record $29,801 raised for programs along the four-state waterway. More than 300 people placed 2,600 bids on 496 auction items during the month-long event to help NFCT beat its revenue goal of $25,000. One hundred [...]
Scottish Sea Kayak Film Grabs Two Awards
Scottish sea kayak film grabs two awards on the same day The DVD Sea Kayak with Gordon Brown was awarded ‘Best Instructional Film’ at two separate film festivals in Canada – on the same day. It was picked as winner at the 5th Annual Reel Paddling Film Festival in Toronto, and Paddle Canada’s Waterwalker Film [...]
The Golden Gate Sea Kayak Symposium
The Golden Gate Sea Kayak Symposium A British Invasion By: Conor Mihell Don’t be surprised if skegs outnumber rudders at the second annual Golden Gate Sea Kayak Symposium, held Feb. 26-28 in San Francisco Bay, Calif. Organizer Sean Morley says the British-style, rough water-focused event was designed as a counterpoint to the typical North American [...]
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