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Texas Water Safari
More than 100 boats lined up at Spring Lake at Aquarena Springs in San Marcos, Texas, on Sat., June 8 for the 51st annual Texas Water Safari a 262-mile canoe and kayak race from San Marcos to Seadrift. The most poignant moment may have come in the very last minutes of the race.
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Book Review: Grey Owl and Me
07.28.2010
In the early 1900s, an Englishman named Archie Belaney came to North America in search of adventure and became one of the first to romanticize the notion of canoe-tripping in the Canadian wilderness. Belaney quickly fell in with the Teme-Augama Anishnabe, the “Deep Water People”, a native Ojibwa tribe whose traditional lands encompass present-day Temagami, [...]
Boat Book – Impex Kayaks
07.27.2010
Each week, we highlight companies in Canoe & Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Impex Kayaks. Stay tuned next week for more from our Boat Book. ASSATEAGUE Available in fiberglass, Kevlar, carbon/Kevlar or K-Lite. L: 17’10″; W: 22.5″; 59 lbs. This larger version of our Currituck gives large to [...]
Boat Book – Hurricane Kayaks
07.27.2010
Each week, we highlight companies in Canoe & Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Hurricane Kayaks. Stay tuned next week for more from our Boat Book. SANTEE 116 SPORT $899, Trylon (thermoformed abs plastic) L: 11’6″; W: 28″; 35lbs. The Santee 116 Sport handles like the 116, but is [...]
9-Year-Old Kid Lands 51-Pound Fish From a Kayak
07.27.2010
Louisiana grade schooler Cody Louviere woke at 3:00 a.m. to go kayak fishing with his grandfather, and was rewarded with a 51.8-pound Black Drum. The duo used kayaks to access Gulf waters as yet unsullied by the oil spill. Read the full story at www.weeklycitizen.com.
Boat Book – Feelfree Kayaks
07.26.2010
Each week, we highlight companies in Canoe & Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Feelfree Kayaks. Stay tuned next week for more from our Boat Book. MOVE $519 in roto-molded polyethylene L: 8’10″; W: 29″; 41 lbs. The new Move is agile, stable, and fun. Feelfree’s integrated wheel in [...]
Summer Movie Season – Dashboard Empanada
07.26.2010
In this installment of the Summer Movie Season, we look at the Demshitz Posse’s Dashboard Empanada, the title of which is a play off the classic Dashboard Burrito. Check out Jared and Graham Seiler, Ian, Evan and Nate Garcia as well as a host of other paddlers as they barnstorm Chilean whitewater. It’ll definitely make [...]
South Korea – Land of the Dam
07.23.2010
South Korea is roughly the size of Indiana but according to Currents, a river stewardship-focused Web TV series that uses whitewater kayaking to educate the general public about the plight of the world’s rivers, the country contains more than 18,000 dams. Here, Currents examines the southern Korean peninsula and its whitewater potential threatened by hydro [...]
Expeditions: Going It Alone
07.21.2010
Photograph by Michael Paul Franklin The recent scuttle about Freya Hoffmeister’s historic solo rounding of Australia’s rugged and unforgiving coast, both online and in this magazine, got us thinking: What earlier exploits compare to hers? It takes a certain type to go solo in the open ocean. There’s no one to suffer with, no one [...]
Boat Book – Epic Kayaks
07.20.2010
Each week, we highlight companies in Canoe & Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Epic Kayaks. Stay tuned next week for more from our Boat Book. GPX L: 12′ 11″; W: 25″; 37 lbs./$1,495 (Value/Fiberglass); 31 lbs./$1,995 (Performance/Fiberglass/Carbon Fiber/ Kevlar); 25 lbs./$2,495 (Ultra/Woven Kevlar) The GPX is available in [...]
Boat Book – Eddyline Kayaks
07.19.2010
Each week, we highlight companies in Canoe & Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Eddyline Kayaks. Stay tuned next week for more from our Boat Book. JOURNEY $2329, Thermoformed Carbonlite 2000 L: 15’6″; W: 24″; 49 lbs. Journey is a full featured touring kayak with the casual fun loving [...]
Dirtbag Diaries: Mississippi Source to Sea
07.19.2010
Danielle: Before paddling the Mississippi River people warn you about the man-eating alligators, the barge-swallowing eddies, the flesh-devouring mosquitoes … but no one warned us about the flying carp. Kevin: The carp tortured us daily, it made the river feel like a giant jack-in-the-box, except the clown doesn’t laugh when it pops out, instead it’s [...]
Summer Movie Season – Haymaker
07.16.2010
Resident hucker Cody Howard is back with his follow up film to Risen Sun, Haymaker. And yeah, the following preview is like one of those big, left hooks: It’ll leave your jaw dropped. Check out Cody’s, and the rest of the Huckin Huge crew’s antics, below. Feel like ordering the full-length feature? Click here. HAYMAKER [...]
Boat Book – Delta Kayaks
07.15.2010
Each week, we highlight companies in Canoe & Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Delta Kayaks. Stay tuned next week for more from our Boat Book. DELTA 12.10 Retail $1450.00. Thermoform L: 12’10″; W: 25; H: 13.5″; 43 lbs. A versatile and nimble day or weekend tripper that will [...]
Behind the Scenes of ‘Birthright’
07.15.2010
If you haven’t seen Sean Mullens’ short film, ‘Birthright,’ watch it now. Then read the comments posted below. Never has a paddling film evoked such eye-watering emotion, let alone a five-minute short that includes just 78 words. Birthright follows one man’s extraordinary struggle to reach the ocean and go paddling. The paddler is Michael Mitchell, [...]
Boat Book – Dagger
07.14.2010
Each week, we highlight companies in Canoe & Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Dagger. Stay tuned next week for more from our Boat Book. AXIOM 8.0 $995, rotomolded plastic L: 8′; W: 24.5″; 34.5 lbs.; 51 gal. Designed to reward dynamic paddling, the Axiom features lower volume in [...]
The KEEN and Canoekayak.com Portage Photo Contest!
07.14.2010
Sometimes the carry is the crux. That’s why KEEN and Canoe and Kayak magazine are teaming up for the first annual Portage Photo Contest. Did a log ruin your rapid? Does a sieve make that cataract really suck? Or maybe you just had to carry your canoe between lakes? Send us your best photos featuring [...]
Hall of Fame: The Class of 2010
07.13.2010
It was only a matter of time before Risa Shimoda, a staunch river advocate and one of America’s most vocal supporters of whitewater paddling, became an inductee of the hall of fame she helped create. Shimoda is the only American in the International Whitewater Hall of Fame’s (IWHOF) class of 2010; she is being recognized [...]
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